mexican truckers allowed full access to us

It's half right. While the Canadian VEHICLE is allowed to move freight domestically, it must be driven by an American driver. INS wouldn't allow it, unless you have dual citizenship or a green card.

From what I understand, that clause was written in as an exemption for Interstate buses.

 

Anyone know If Mexican trucks are allowed in Canada?

 

I've disappeared from this forum because I'm now an undergraduate student majoring in logistics/supply chain management; this is a
specialty under business administration. From a business logistics & accounting perspective, these cheap, low-paid CDL drivers from Mexico
is the answer to both, the driver shortage (retention) issue and keeping freight shipment cost down. American truckers are too expensive;
they keep defecting over to local hourly-paying positions [not to mention you come home daily]. In light of the global market economy, big business has to find ways to keep overhead down to compete with foreign markets. You may have noticed a good number of warehouses are staffed by Hispanics who speak little or no English. This is a clue the federal government is not going to close down the loop hole to allow employers to hire illegals. Fake documents are allowed and verifying [if they're legit documents] is optional. The strategy of hiring illegals to keep labor cost down has been extended to OTR trucking by legalizing the Mexican CDL.
Until American truckers wise up and either bring back the Teamsters or create a powerful lobby group, these cheap low paid truckers are unstoppable. It's the law of economics; much as the American people prefer to buy cheap Asian imports over American-made goods, they'd rather have OTR dominated by cheap truckers from Mexico, so long as it means saving $$ at the cash register and increasing their profit margins.
One strategy to consider [to lock out Mexican truckers] is to require a high school or GED certificate to hold a CDL. These Mexicans have the equivalent of a 4th-grade education. Even if they take our GED test, they'd never pass basic arithmetic; and they'd be required to know
the US Constitution and US History to pass a GED test. Until American truckers succeed in lobbying to require more educational criteria to
drive into USA territory, it's easy to predict the American truckers will go the same route as the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period [66 million
years ago]. A good analogy is to look at harvesting in most farms, you don't see Americans picking the field; only Hispanics who speak little
or no English. Hiring Americans to harvest the field is cost prohibitive, and it's the same with hauling freight.
Of course, it's a culture shock to just fire American truckers and replace them with Mexicans; so they'll do it slowly over a decade. As American truckers retire from OTR, they quitely substitute a Mexican trucker in his place. The news media will coverup by saying a Hispanic trucker is from Texas, when really, what they mean is the driver's trucking company has a terminal in Texas, but his CDL license says Mexico.
Here's a news report on illicit drug proceed $$$ intercepted by police, yet makes no mention about the trucker. It's a good example of the news media protecting Mexican CDL drivers.
Another option is to require maybe monthly drug testing for all CDL drivers. I read on a Hispanic website for truckers (translated by my
Mexican neighbor) Mexican truckers will refuse drug testing if it's made mandatory on a periodic basis. In Mexico, it's legal to be on
stimulants [like methamphetamines] to meet overnight delivery deadlines.

 

I think they freeze when they hit Butte.



Good question, and one for which I don't have an answer. Could you imagine sending them to Alaska though?

 

I do know that CDOT is happy when the first snows hit 70......


No NAFTA rigs seem to venture past 133 Eastbound or 270 Westbound......

My CO rates also go up during that time too!!!!!

 

I think they would be called meximos.

 

It's not the greatest source, but it's better then nothing.

Article 1

Also found this article, from the same time frame.

Article 2 (Today's Trucking Magazine)