Anyone know about crossing into Mexico?

A few companies go down there, just wondering what it entails, and if anyone has experience with it. I'm fairly fluent in Spanish and have been to Mexico a few times, wouldn't mind driving there for work.

 

It can't be all that bad. Look, I've never even been inside a truck, but when I finally am, I'd like to think I won't shy from situations which other guys would use as an excuse to not work at all. I want to drive and am willing to go anywhere short of rural Colombia and Compton, at any time.

Have you ever heard of the Camina de las Yungas ("Death Road") in Bolivia? It's basically a 40-mile dirt path, about 12 feet wide, snaking around a mountain from La Paz to a city called Coroico. A new highway recently opened, but prior to that, it was the only way to get from A to B. I look at any rough Mexican roads from that perspective: can't be as bad as the Yungas. If there's a road, and it can be driven on at all, I will at least try to do it.

Now, all I know so far about going to Mexico - Schneider does it, I think - is it's dropoff only. I wonder that a high-profile company like Schneider would operate in Mexico if shakedowns were really so frequent or disruptive of their business. I'm sure they occur, but it still has not happened to me. Even if it did, I'd gladly grease José's palm and be on my way. I have offered money where assistance seemed unnecessarily slow, and that no es posible, señor, turns into gracias señor, gracias pretty fast. How many "shakedowns" were high-handed gringos unwilling to part with a few extra pesos in accordance with local custom?

 

Well, your condescension was entirely needless.

I asked for someone with experience trucking in Mexico to tell me about it, not for someone to repeat the usual clichés about the country (bad roads, bribery, etc.) to scare me away from the thought, though I did expect it. I've been in plenty of perilous situations outside the US, heinously bad roads included. If you can contribute something useful, please do. If not, there's no need to paint me as the "newbie who just won't listen". I won't listen to people who aren't on topic, that's true.

Now, if anyone actually knows about this.....

 

This was also completely useless. But I guess the feeling of patting yourselves on the back for misplaced condescension is too hard to resist.

If you review my first posts, you'll see that in the situation you describe - a newbie seeking advice about companies - I did exactly the opposite: I listened. I'm sure most people don't; most people are idiots; but I defy you in lumping me in with them. I came on here looking for background info on CRE, found it, and didn't get on the ####### bus to Dallas to train for them. So tell me, O wise Super Moderator, how I'm the typical newbie.

People should at least try to pay attention. I asked if anyone knows about trucking in Mexico, specifically. Not what they heard about the cops and the roads and the food. If so-and-so's husband had a bad experience, I'd surely like to read about it, as that is why I made the thread. There's no need to push your prejudice against newbies - or Mexico - on me, though.

Once again I ask those with experience driving in Mexico, or even someone with a secondhand story to tell about it, to come forward.