Mexico trucks?

It's organized chaos in Laredo for certain, but check with the LPD traffic section and you'll see there are very few accidents involving these guys.

I kinda sympathize with these guys though hustling as they have to.They make about $18.00 per crossing (company drivers) and have to put up with all the BS on both sides of the border.

I agree though, does get a bit hairy down there. Gives my middle finger a good workout everytime I am there

 

I try to sneak in and sneak out before they notice me. Unfortunately, this truck sticks out like a sore thumb and I don't blend very well either.

I went into a tiny broker's yard and was pointed to a narrow blind side back most of the way down. There were three spots open closer, but that's where he wanted the trailer. Six cross border drivers were backed into doors across from where I had to park looking back and forth at each other and my rig.

It was a thing of beauty. I accidentally set it up perfectly and parked the trailer in that slot like there was a big magnet in the back of the parking spot. When I got out of the truck to unhook the trailer, none of the six guys were visible. The yard guy was walking toward me, so I got the paperwork out for him.

He told me every one of the six had tried for that same spot with their daycabs and COEs.

That was a beautiful morning in Laredo.

 

I can imagine. I have the same problem with the 379 Pete in a lot of those yards. And with all the real estate available, you would think they'd expand the pads a bit!

 

Their own honesty and integrity.

 

Injun answered the question correctly and unknowingly for you guy!

You see, unlike us, they play by the rules. Especially in their country because not doing so can get them thrown in prison and loss of their license from anywhere from 3 years to life, depending on the offense. And for them, trucking is a good job, it's considered an honorable profession in Mexico and unlike here, it's actually a skilled profession.

Here, we screw up, have an accident or do something stupid, it's a slap on the wrist and we're sent out to do it again, until someone dies. There is no personal responsibility in our industry. And that's our own ###### fault.

But the correct answer to your question is if they are caught busting cabotage, they can have their visas revoked and be deported back to Mexico. It's ###### difficult to get a border crossing visa from the US and they aren't going to do anything to jeopardize it, nor are their employers going to require it. They have too ###### much money invested in the program to do it any other way than legal.

People should be worrying about the Canadians and the 37,000 trucks that have free and largely unmonitored access to our country.

And BTW, rates in Mexico are about 10-15% higher than what we are getting here. It costs the company I work for, $450-575 to send a load from Pharr Texas to Monterrey Mexico, a distance of 145 miles with our partner carriers. The idea that rates in Mexico or that the Mexicans can or will operate for $1.00 a mile or less is total BS

 

I've managed to survive the Canadians, the Euros and the Arabs, I don't think the Mexicans will do me in, in fact it's the ease of obtaining authority that has done the most damage in regard to rates. There's too many out there that haven't a clue as to whhat it takes to run a trucking company.

 

Who said I was being sarcastic?

My experience is that, on a personal level, Mexicans (REAL Mexicans...not the watered down Mexican-ancestry third and fourth generation Mexican-Americans) are honest, hard working people with a great sense of humor and strong family values. I like them on a personal level.

My only issue is when they sneak into the country illegally.

 

Our entry into the US is, as you say, much simpler, with a passport. However we would suffer the same consequences, deported and not allowed to enter the US.