Mexican Truckers Declare Strike

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My hat off to Mexican truckers! It appears that they have what Americans used to have, Courage! We have forgotten that we come from a a bunch of hell raisers! American truckers are treated like crap. And we have fools out there that listen to Rush and Hannity, that tell them that it´s all sunshine and lolipops and they beleive it! I´m nowhere near a liberal. I can´t stand either political party! But there comes a point where people have to fight back! American truck drivers are getting exactly what they deserve. Why? Because they lack the strength, character, courage, and passion of their convictions! Americans as a whole have become fat, lazy, apathetic, uninterested, uneducated, and weak. This is why companies can treat truckers as they do. Then they laugh all the way to the bank!This is why our government can sell us out! We have become the land of the sheep and the home of the slaves.
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Ron-Mars, let's get something straight once again! It isn't you guys and us guys. I am an American citizen who chooses to live where I do. I drive for an American company. Nothing more, nothing less!

I simply try to tell it like it is and relate my first hand experiences from this side of the border. People have been fed so much BS about Mexico, that I can't blame anyone for believing what they do. But I do expect people to have enough sense to question what is illogical and look at things with an open mind.

I would question what some of the brokers tell you if they are trying to convince you that they would rather use Mexican domiciled trucks rather than US trucks. The reason is generally, Mexican domiciled carriers don't use brokers. Perhaps some of their US sister companies do, but not on a regular basis.

But you know, what you describe is how it's always been. Brokers try to get the most for the least cost. More in their pockets.

Rates on the border have been in a free fall for several months. What we were hauling for $2.50 a mile, we're barely able to get a buck a mile. And my trucks contract calls for $1.46 per mile dollar cost average. The company we're leased to eats the loss.

It'll change though. Supply and demand. It always does. We've been through this before in the 35 years I've been out here. Survival of the fittest and those with the most business savvy.

The subsidy mentioned was given to all trucks, O/O's and company owned trucks with Federal license plates and who had accounts with PEMEX, which most of them do. Cash customers pay pump price.

This has nothing to do with anybody undercutting anyone. Rates in Mexico have been pretty consistent. We're still paying $1200 plus for service to Mexico City and Toluca.

What people refuse to accept is that the Mexican carriers, their owners and executives are businessmen the same as we are. And Mexico has 1/20th of the registered Class 8 rigs of the US. They don't need to cut rates. And when they operate here, they do so under contracts from Mexico, both ways generally.

The others your brokers may be referring to, are probably Mexican American O/O
s and small companies.

Another thing. Got me how? One of the things CANACAR was protesting against was allowing these trucks to be imported into Mexico, and with good reason. They've had a big hand in modernizing the border drayage fleets.

It's possible those trucks might be sold to a nation further south, but it's doubtful. European rigs are the norm in Central and South America.

The photos I have posted on this board are actual and factual. Most taken at random. And they say a picture is worth a thousand words.

 

You're being a bit harsh, but you are absolutely correct.

They prefer to listen to morons like Trucking Bozo, Bubbo Bo, Baby Bozo, Dave Nemo and others; radio guys who've never been behind the wheel but know what's best for the industry.

They believe the crap they're told about OOIDA being the Holy Grail, the be all end all to all of the problems that confront the industry.

Yet you can't get two of us to agree on anything when it matters.

We've listened to Jimmy Hoffa and his gang of thugs and Todd Spencer and that bunch convince some of us that the Mexican Truck Program is the cause of all our problems. Others try to convince you that Mexico and it's people are the cause of everything from climate change to your old ladies PMS, and most believe it!

People need to get their heads out of their butts and learn to think for themselves and not let others think for them. Then we might be on track to find workable solutions for out problems.

We're sitting back and letting FMCSA shove crap at us when we are already overburdened with meaningless regulation, all in the name of "safety"?

Sleep Apnea studies based on flawed science! Forcing you to visit a government approved doctor for your DOT instead of giving you relative freedom of choice. TWIC Cards, background checks for Haz-Mat, even though a large number of us have hauled it for decades and many of us are veterans who held Secret and Top Secret Clearances.

We take it and fall in line like sheeple and wait for the other hammer to fall on us.

Yep Yankee! You hit the nail on the head mano!

 

I'm just relaying my experiences in both the construction and trucking industries.....
The labors who work for contractors now, earn less than what I did when I started in construction back in 1978.
Somewhere in a back room, are both the representatives of American government/business and Mexican government/business arranging deals to under-cut American workers and "enslave" Mexican workers.
That's no different what happened to the electronics industry in the US bringing over Indian engineers on a H1B who worked for half of what an American engineer would work for.

When I was kid most fast restaurants employed teens for after-school jobs...now those same jobs are going to adults and many are NOT US citizens.


You have to see it from our side.....
You can't go to a Home depot or Lowes anymore with out seeing the day labors....

You can't drive anywhere in the L.A. metro without seeing the pushcarts and the fruit sellers on every corner......None of them have a valid business license like I'm required to have for my business operation, but I digress.....

I can't blame these immigrants for coming here but you have to understand they unwittingly are a burden on our society. Our emergency hospitals are closing left and right because there is no money in the system, nor is there money to cover the lawsuits.....You look on a back of an RTD bus, there's always the attorney ads in Spanish that says if they are hurt at work...they can get money...if they are involved in an accident even if it's they're fault...they get money...

Our schools are over-crowded...The quality of life here has gone down hill....

It's not the same California I grew up in, that's for sure.
Who's to blame?

You go to any school function, they're carried out in both English and Spanish....why?
This is the US not Mexico..... Would Mexico would be that accommodating to a non-Spanish speaker and teach Spanish as a second language?

Perhaps you might be familiar with the journalist Pat Wall. He lived in Mexico for over ten years. He is married to a Mexican national and they have two sons. He loved living in Mexico but he could never become a citizen. He could never get permission from the Mexican government to do so. He has since moved back up here and continues to write for the Tribune newspaper service.
I get some of my information in regards to this subject from Mr. Wall and my own life experiences.

Somehow, the perception is that I'm anti-Mexican and nothing could be further from the truth. But you have put yourself in our shoes. Many of us have worked hard all our lives in what used to be good paying stable jobs. The rules have changed....it's "Press 2 for English now".... It's "Sorry but you're overpaid and overqualified for this job" .... Hell, in California an illegal alien cannot be denied a college education, and... on our dime...that's a law!!!!
It used to be that you had to speak English to get a job...hasn't been that way for the last ten years. I can remember having words with one of my superintendents over that fact the labors they sent me only spoke Spanish...he told me to learn Spanish...that's total B.S. my friend.

I served my country for 4 years only to come back and have to accommodate people who didn't have know the language of the land to work in this country....B.S.
When I was stationed in Germany...we had to take a course in German....We had to learn enough German to converse with the German soldiers we trained with.

Someone mentioned Americans have "gone soft"...that's not it....we have been "sold down the river" my friend. You cannot open your mouth to complain....otherwise you are labeled "Racist".....

Take a look at L.A. metro.....it's now a freakin' "third world country"...all in the name of accommodation.


My wish for the people of Mexico is that they get rid of their corrupt government. Yes, I know, ours isn't perfect, but we can change ours.

I know for a fact that Mexico has a thriving middle-class but....your government still refuses to take care of it's poor so...where else do they go...right here to burden our society.....right here to earn money that does not return to our economy but goes down to Mexico to support the Mexican economy...
Did you know that California loses annually $10,000,000.00 or more from Illegals sending money out of country?

Sorry friend....you just opened up a can of worms...a very sore subject with many on this board.
I apologize for being brusk.....but put yourself in our shoes...we're losing our country and our culture, a little bit every day.

 

RON-MARS,you described southern california very well. a friend of mine hauls waste dirt(contaminated) and he was told he was not eligible for a government contract because he was NOT a "dis-advantaged minority". yet out of over 100 trucks on this site,there was only one other white guy there and they were BOTH denied applications for this contract. But as Mexico Trucker explains,he is also a US citizen running up here with us getting the same low rates. it is the "Mexican-American" trucker living here flying his red/white & green flag on his truck, refusing to learn or avoiding to speak english, professing to be a better worker,driving down the 710 six feet behind a car-in a pile of junk truck with his numbers on the side written on a piece of cardboard,held on by masking tape,that's the guy i want to see go back across the border. we see these idiots all day here in california,and they are not loyal to this country--you can tell by that Mexican flag he's flying. even seen one guy who had a US flag with the stars upside down below his beloved country's flag. but your beef isn't with Mexico Trucker, he is an american citizen driving in the US. and i think he mentioned in another post that he served in the military stationed at George AFB in Victorville before it was closed. the question is-if the american truckers decided to strike,would the mexican-american drivers join in or would they use it against us?

 

Has anyone seen any of the videos that I have recomended? Wake Up Call, ENDGAME, Zeitgeist II Addendum???? In order to resisit we have to know who and what we are fighting! What is going on in America is all planned.In order to get our countrymen in the fight they must be informed!If anyone has seen these videos on Google, I'd like some feed back. If you think you don't have time.... Well, MAKE TIME!!