An Open Invitation

Aeroméxico Flight 498
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroméxico_Flight_498

Language had absolutely NOTHING to do with this crash. And all airline pilots and civil pilots all over the WORLD must be able to communicate in English, as it's the language of civil aviation. So an AeroMexico 737 flying in Chinese airspace would communicate with the ATC in English, for example.

 

I'll give you that.....How about enforcing that rule-"English communication" on the NAFTA trucks?

Since we're getting back to the OT.....

NAFTA trucks.....
It is not a question of if, but when.......

We have a government that is more concerned for the right of a third world country to send its people here to compete unfairly with its own citizens; placing those same citizens at risk from unsafe trucks and drivers who are not required to meet the stringent regs of the US enforcement in their own country.....
I would suspect that before the next round of tariffs enforced on the US by Mexico begin....Obama will cave...and the gates...let alone the border fences, will come down.....

America has been steam-rolled and our kowtowing politicians are to blame....

 

Then why are the various DOT's beginning either require officers become bilingual or, they are pushing to hire bilingual officers?
You make it sound like the average Mexican driver has a college level education....
Come on...let's get real....

What country has a higher illiteracy rate?
What country has a lower GDP?
What country pushes it citizens to break another country's sovereignty and immigration laws?

It is not the US my friend...
How many Americans are jumping the fence and heading south to do the jobs "Mexicans won't do"?

Come on....let's get real....
Mexico needs NAFTA...not the US....
NAFTA mainly benefits Mexico...not the the citizens of the US....

How many Mexicans lost their jobs due to NAFTA compared to the amount of US jobs lost to Mexico?

 

Agreed....but Mexico is not at all like the US...Here it's "Press 2 for English".....I doubt that Mexico is that accommodating...When I visited Mexico...I had to speak Spanish....

How many years of education are required in Mexico?
Let's compare what is required to earn a high school diploma in the US v. Mexico....

My kid's high school They are required to have reading and writing at the 10th grade level...

You must pass algebra II...

You must have had at least 2 years of a foreign language...

You must demonstrate the ability to use a computer and its various applications effectively...

That is to graduate from high school....

Logbooks, fuel and mileage records....The ability to communicate with shippers, receivers, DOT...Spanish and broken English might get them by in liberal California...but not in South Dakota, Montana, or Wyoming for example....

But it does have everything to do with what a Mexican carrier will run v. an American carrier....Poor people will work for nothing....

Oh please....http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/amnesty/Mexican-Guidebook.pdf

Denial is not a river in Egypt.....

And at any given moment...you can lose your homes....unless the laws have been recently changed...A non-citizen cannot own property but can lease....We have two friends who "have" beach property in Ensenada...they have 99 year leases....That can be revoked at anytime...

And Mexico doesn't subsidize????

Uh...back in '08 when diesel was $5+ a gallon...Mexican carriers were paying $2/g.... Allowing them to "Bottom-feed" the rates. I saw it take place with the dump biz....Yes that's right...Mexican dump truck O/O's are running here in the US...That's partly why the Ten-wheeler rates went from an average of $80/h to $45/h overnight.... If you only pay $2/g for fuel...you sure as hell can underbid the competition who still has to pay $5/g

Your prerogative...I think your an expatriate who hates America.....


And again....There is nothing we can do to stop the Mexican trucks from rolling in....Our politicians sold out to the drug cartels long ago...But the NAFTA truckers should expect a good deal of resistance from carriers who have obey regs that as we all know...Mexican carriers ignore....

How many Mexican trucks are equipped with DPF's...What about SCR's?????

I bet our liberal kowtowing government still allow them to roll....

The port deadline was Jan 1, '10.....Because the few Mexican trucks that are port concessionaires couldn't meet the Jan deadline...They were extended to April...

I didn't receive such courtesy....I had to go out and purchase a new rig to be CARB compliant...

Again...where is the fairness in this?

Again...NAFTA rigs have their own set of rules...which are they get to run whatever and however they choose...

 

I'd love to have what you are smoking....But unlike in Mexico....I have to take random drug tests up here.....

 

WELL, according to this site >>> http://www.mexicomike.com/database/runner/public/mx_fuel_prices_list.php <<< it would be hard to show that buying Diesel fuel in Texas, NM, or AZ would be cheaper than in the interior of Mexico. Another site explains that a 250 gallon fillup in a commercial truck would save $750 over buying fuel in the U.S.A. it is here >>> http://www.bajainsider.com/driving-baja/gaspricesmexico.htm <<< how far off are these sites, according to your "real world sitings" and don't throw in your barely across the border stops. We all know you can get fuel 50 miles south and drive 400 miles north of the border and back and U.S.truckers can't compete with $2.39/gallon fuel. With a 200 gallon purchase you save $100. Maybe not Huge savings, but with gringo's able to work for $75/day, we can't pay our $800+/mo rent. And $800 don't get much of an apt. Spend $800/mo. in Mex. and I'll bet you get a mansion for 4 families,huh?