Do you want them on your roads?

It may mean cheaper freight which might possibly mean lower prices. More likely the middle men will make a slightly better margin and you won't save anything.

There are safety issues.

There are worker displacement issues. If you give our trucker's jobs to Mexican truckers, what will our truckers do for work. What will happen if you cut their pay significantly by bringing in Mexican Labor to do the driving.

Is this a Republican vs Democrat issue? I think a lot of Republicans oppose this move and a lot of Democrats too. I expect only a few people support it.

Anyone know what is driving this issue suddenly?

there are plenty of safety issues. this should not be allowed to happen.

the same happen when u put call centers for software support in India.
It has been done, and it will as long as greed runs this country and the world.
I support your point of view, employments that are already in a country should not be taken and put them out just because is cheapest.
Government suppose to consider their people and not their pocket

I gotta come down hard on Bush with this one. Maybe the first real evidence you have seen that I disagree with one of his policies, but there are many, you just don't know about them. They need to leave the trucking industry alone. Those guys have it tough enough already.

The Teamsters and The Independant are Uniter on this one, MEXICAN TRUCKS AND MEXICAN TRUCKERS = Flat Tires,Gravel in the Trannies and Non-Reccamended Fuel Addetives, There could be a few accedends Too...

i tell you this the economy has already been the worst in my life that i have ever seen and freight has been terrible this past year and now that they are letting them bring their frieght over it is going to be even worse for the american truck driver

news flash boyz & girlz. Mexican truckers are already here. They had a limit before, maybe the limit is bein expanded. There's nothing that will stop it. Your insurnace rates will probly go up.

I think it also stops a step in the border process as well, letting the trucks pass the border without having the cargo shifted to another truck. This eliminates the rather informal step inspection performed by the American truckers in the process.

i bet now you will see abandoned trucks now sinnce it seems they are allowing this they will take advantage of the situationand and there will b even more illigals and more american tax dollars gone so it hurts every amreican not just the truckers and it also hurts the mexican american

I spent 30 years in the Trucking Industry in Safety and Management. My biggest concern is the safety issue. I have seen some of their trucks and they do not meet the safety standards set by the U.S. There has never been a requirement to unload trucks at the border and reload them as far as I know except for the random custom inspection. I have trucked quite a bit out of Mexico. We used to have a Mexican Carrier pick up our trailers at the border, take then in and load them then return them to us at the border.

and it should staay that wayfor the "safety of our country" as george bush sould say right

Since when should Jorje buschco care about safty issues on The American People???

According to presidente jorje bushco,the american people are the property of The busch Family as The Ruling Monarchs of the american contenent...

The price of frieght is directly related to the price of Fuel,BUSH IS BIG OIL..

The Mexican Trucks are shipping goods that were once manufactured in The USA but are now being manufactured in Mexico, China and elswhere...

The Mexican trucks are also bushco's was to sell The American Longshoremen down the toilet...

As americans made it,consumed it and transported it, America was self serving, But most have to move offshore to avoid american harassent of Manufacturing in this country...

So america has become a stuck pig and now we are being Bled to death by ushco & frieds...

In TEXAS you can own a TANK and other autillery pieces...

a .105 makes a big hole in things...

Had you ever read or seen The Manturian Canidate ???

Well bushco is him.....

WHAT DOES THE RACE OF A TRUCKER DEPEND ON THE QUALITY YOU GET??? GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZ WHERE ARE YOUR PEOPLE'S HEADS??? OH i KNOW............

CHEAP LABOUR I SEE........SURE......BUT IS THIS ANOTHER RACIST THREAD????

I spent some time in a logistics and trucker dispatching job, and we never had a problem with the foreign truckers, hell they were usually earlier than anyone else! Even the foreign women drivers, small women at that, got the job done. Don't blame it on Bush, he doesn't run the trucking companies, blame the owners of these companies and their customers, the corporations who are trying to save a buck.

One of the most powerful groups to ever appear in world history is the middle class in America....the middle class got its power initially from the labor movement early in the 20th century thru unions thus strengthening their rights to earn a wage and move themselves up in the social ladder...thru this, the middle class could wield there own power economically & politically...to the power elite..the middle class has to vanish....the desire here is to have a 2 tier social structure...wealthy & poor....killing the trucking industry is yet another way to erode the foundation stone of the middle class....say goodbye america...we are losing by allowing this in the name of corporate enterprize...
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One of the things that plague the trucking industry is a shortage of drivers. Every company I ever worked for was in a continual hiring mode to try to meet the demand for more drivers. Look at the proliferation of "Truck Driving Schools", now almost every Vo-Tech School has one still the damand for drivers cannot be met. There is an old addage in the trucking industry "if you got it a truck brought it" which is completely true.

Everything in this country moves by truck and much of it moves across the borders, both Canadian and Mexican. To stop this commerce would be devestating to our economy. Think of the things we get, produce from Mexico, lumber and agricultural products from Canada, to name a few. Like it or not, we live in an age of a globalized economy and nothing we can do will change that.

My only concerns the mechanical condition of the Mexican trucks and that drivers from another country comply with all the regulations that govern drivers from this country. Further, our trucks should have the same access to their country that is granted to them and this currently does not happen either with Mexico or Canada.

Gypsy, No way was this meant as a racist thread. half of Houston is Mexican and I mostly like all of them I have met. As far as I'm concerned they are welcome to be here. I've shown that in other posts I've made.

This is more of a protectionist post. Maybe it is a little anti-capitalist.

I have safety concerns as well. But mainly I don't want to see the truckers hurt with competition that they can not stand up to. I'm not always for the lowest price on things. I have workers on a project right now that I could outsource instead. If I outsourced I could save thousands of dollars, but this way I protect my workers from layoff and I know they will be around when I need them.

Truck drivers deserve our support too.

gardenforge you always put a smile on my face! I also agree that the safety issues with these trucks is and should be a big ticket concern. Additionally i am wondering just how many ILLEGALS are being smuggled right along with that freight.

Thanks BBS glad I make someone smile, the rest of the mob looks pretty hostile especially the guy with the rope

ROTFLMAO!!! ya know gardenforge...he DOES got a pretty MEAN look!!! hahahaha!!!