Mexican rigs coming to a highway near you

The Roads in mexico are not like our roads. Our roads are designed for cars and trucks to safely operate. Down there allot of roads are 1 truck wide, so when you have a mexican in a truck comeing at you at 100+ mph what are you going to do? wreck/drive off the road? then what? call 911, AAA?

Yes they have cars down there, most are old and crappy.


Here you can park on a ramp or MT lot and your biggest worry is a cop bothering you. Down there your trying to sleep while worrying about being killed!

Its a whole differant world down there. Ya sure the tourist areas seem nice, but you wonder around outside that area of the country and look around, you will not like what you see...


American Trucker

 

You do know that parking on a ramp is illegal in most states even when there isn't a posted sign, right? Roadside parking is meant for emergencies only, and running out of HOS doesn't count as a emergency. Imma bet you don't place out your DOT triangles either, which is required after sitting on the shoulder for durations longer than 10 minutes.

What makes rural parts of Mexico different from rural parts of the US? Not all US secondary roads can handle truck traffic either.

For the roads in Mexico, has it ever occured to you that perhaps this will be improved as Mexico will generate more income with a open border policy?

You talk to me like I've never been to Mexico, when this is far from the truth. I do have family there I visit on a regular basis. You keep on stereotyping a entire nation based on what you see in Laredo and El Paso, and this is completely ignorant. Almost racist. Every one of your arguments of why Mexican trucks shouldn't be allowed to operate in the US is a case of "the pot calling the kettle black".

Don't tell me anything about the violations if you can't pass a inspection yourself. Don't tell me anything about dangerous driving if you aren't a safe driver yourself. Don't tell me anything about the drug wars when you or some 13-year-old kid buys a dime bag from a street dealer. So forth, and so on. With all do respect, it makes you look like a complete fool.

This rant isn't solely directed at you, but the ignorance portrayed in this thread. Y'all need to educate yourselves and step off the hypothecital pedestals you placed yourselves on. The US isn't this 'golden' country that you guys are painting it out to be.

 

Well get ready for starting pay of about 18cpm. The revolution is coming, quickly assuming this is for real...

 

who gives a flip! we have a MASSIVE shortage of jobs in the US and US truck drivers are GROSSLY underpaid, i dont care what this may or may not do to help mexico, its what its going to do this OUR country that bothers me and everyone else.

Personally i dont like mexicans because i have yet to meet one that wasnt completely ignorant and rude.


If you like mexico so much...LEAVE and go there.


and they have millions of dirt poor people in mexico and billions of dollars moving through their country....so you think more money and suddenly their corrupt governtment will build better roads????? Ya ok and Volvos are quality trucks






American Trucker

 

Comments like this one I quoted make me ashamed to call myself a American.

1) There will always be a shortage of jobs. NEVER in the history of the US has every able bodied adult had a job. Welcome to captailism.

Truckers aren't underpaid. Driving a truck isn't considered a 'profession' by the US department of labor, so be happy you aren't making minimum wage, or worse. Our regional pilot counterparts are paid below minimum wage. Most of those guys/gals will be lucky to see 20k a year. Not very intriguing after spending over 100k for schooling to get a ATPL, is it? Also, if truckers are paid more, the carrier will need to charge the customer more to move their freight. In turn, the customer will need to raise wholesale prices to cover looses. In the end, we all lose because we all need to profit. This is also the reason why many companies are branching overseas. Americans have become too expensive to employ to the point companies cannot afford them without price gouging. Oh wait, the FCC doesn't allow that.

2) There are millions of 'dirt poor' (as you put it) people in the US also. GDP doesn't dictate the funding available for road construction projects.

3) Personally i dont like mexicans because i have yet to meet one that wasnt completely ignorant and rude.

You are in that category in my book.

If you like mexico so much...LEAVE and go there.

I never said I liked Mexico. Check your reading comprehension level.

And FWIW, I'm not Mexican either. I just happen to appreciate diversity unlike some people.

 

Man, I just read from page 1 thru 4 on this thread and don't know what to say. I can agree with you on one point, a generalization of "Mexicans", based on border towns is just as right as a generalization of "Americans" based on welfare recipients. Ignorance and dirty living is not isolated to one nation, it's all over North America, but that is about were (based on your post here) I stop agreeing with you.

I quoted this one post you made, only because as you've so freely stated to other posters in one way or another, this thought is just "Ignorant".

I have lived in a border town with Mexico my entire life and traveled extensively throughout the country of Mexico with my parents when I was younger and as an adult. I've experienced the best and worst of the Mexican culture and with access to the internet becoming so readily available, I still keep in contact with some of the friends I made on my travels. Some of places I've visited:
Monterrey,
Mexico City,
Tampico,
Cancun,
Basaseachi Falls, and
I spent many years everywhere from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas (made that drive many times).

That being said, I'm now 36 years old and have many fun memories of my travels and the people, but I will never drive in that country again and anyone that say's they will, should really consider a visit to their psychiatrist, seriously.

Do you really think comparing driving in Mexico to driving in the US is remotely sane? When is the last time you drove 200 miles on a US road, with no shoulder to pull off on, hair pin turns with cows hanging out on the other end, no guard rails on huge vertical cliffs, two way traffic (no center divide or even markings on the road) and the only travel recommendation you got was, "Fill up at every gas station you see (as the next might not have fuel), don't drive after dark, and if you get pulled over by what you think is a police officer, it probably is not! There are many stretches like this on the trip from San Diego to La Paz and Cabo.

I got a flat on a road trip to San Felipe one year and had to change the tire on the highway, at night, with cars and trucks flying by in the opposite direction, while others passed me, not one even slowed down to make this maneuver, they kept there speed. Why was I on the road, there was no freaking shoulder!

Do I still travel to Mexico, even though I like to call it little Bagdad (with over 30,000 killings to date this year alone)? Yes, but I now fly, mainly for fishing the Gordo Banks in San Jose Del Cabo, but I will not even rent a car when I'm there, only taxi's for me buddy.

Are there US truck drivers that will drive into Mexico, of course there are, you can find most of their videos on "YouTube", just search "Darwin Awards", those same drivers drive quads through buildings and body slam their friends on a mattress, while jumping off the roof of a house, yes they exist.

Tell me something, when was the last time you heard of a car accident in the US, where the driver was found guilty of being at fault by the police officer on the side of the road and required to give a cash deposit for the anticipated repairs and medical cost, or be placed in jail? Oh, you say, "that's why you buy Mexican insurance!". Well, I will tell you that Mexican insurance is only as good as the police officer you are dealing with. I spent many years traveling for the Baja 1000 and we had family and friends that had to deal with this very crap.

You were told in this thread, if you love Mexico so much, why don't you just move there, but you were not ready to take that leap, so I ask, why not? You seem to be really slamming those for their opinions, but you don't give one opinion on how allowing truck drivers from a country so entrenched in poverty, were their biggest import is the US dollar, in the form of workers sending their paychecks home, as they live 15-20 deep in a 2 bedroom apartment, or a camp in the hills, how is this going to benefit the American people? Isn't that what our glorious politicians are supposed to be doing, making decisions on our behalf that will benefit us (Americans).

I'm just lost, maybe you can help me out, besides just coming into a thread and criticizing others, try to be positive, educate me, HOW IS THIS GOING TO BENEFIT ME OR MY CHILDREN?

I don't want to hear about safety and inspections, just give it to me straight, WHERE IS THE BENEFIT?

I'll be patiently awaiting your response.

P.s. Capitalism is what made this country great, Corporatism is what has destroyed it. Just another correction from one of your post.

 

Well let's see, at about $500 per violation,,,,,
OMG! we just solved the debt crisis!!!







NOT!

 

If they pay the violations your right that is a ton of money

 

The OOIDA has filed a lawsuit to try to stop this

 

that's a mighty big IF