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Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday

swamp_thingswamp_thing Member Posts: 695 ✭✭✭
edited August 2007 in General Discussion
Just what we need.
See link
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/14003768/detail.html?rss=dgo&psp=news
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    Yep, just what we need...to make us swirl down the drain a little quicker..
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quote: "the Bush administration's plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to travel ...."

    What in Gawd's name is wrong with this man??? I'm reminded of Churchill's criticism of Neville Chamberlain in which he called Chamberlain "naive but confident" instead of stupid but stubborn.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been seeing Mexican semis on the roads here for several years, since NAFTA was signed. They are pretty, they have lots of decorative lights.
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  • swamp_thingswamp_thing Member Posts: 695 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just do a search on North American Union or The Security and Prosperity Partnership. I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey, they are just doing the jobs Americans won't do.

    Vans were not big enough, they can fit more bodies in a semi. [}:)]
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  • Sith LordSith Lord Member Posts: 480 ✭
    edited November -1
    THAT MAKES ME SICK[:(]
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This will make Mexico wealthy in a short time. Trailer loads of drugs,
    trailer loads of terrorists and trailer loads of Illegals shipped anywhere in the U.S. on request. Population of Mexico will be so far down they will have to hire Americans to do the work Mexicans will not do.
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  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wondered why the world was ending. . . . [ROLL EYES]
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,239 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    That's just swell.
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  • ZebraZebra Member Posts: 5,762
    edited November -1
    I wonder if the trucks carry Mexican insurance? Imagine if one ran you off the road?
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe the Teamsters will get a hold of some of these Mexican drivers and give them some of that special Teamsters treatment they are so famous for.
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  • pitbud5pitbud5 Member Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
    Maybe the Teamsters will get a hold of some of these Mexican drivers and give them some of that special Teamsters treatment they are so famous for.
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    Special Treatment[?] Common that doesn't happen anymore[;)]
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  • SperrySperry Member Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Similar to what pickenup said, they've been doing it for years.

    Another incremental change ...

    Nationals of another country can already establish something close, and sometimes, nearly identical, to residency in the USA. After these changes build up to an even greater degree, thanks to weak Republicans, liberal thinkers, and the shrill, hand-wringing, ever sensitive idealists, we will no longer have a need to use the expression "illegal immigrant".

    It'll become DE-FACTO AMERICANS
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  • nyforesternyforester Member Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How many illegals can you fit in a 60 foot semi box trailer ?
    Abort Cuomo
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  • KodiakkKodiakk Member Posts: 5,582
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nyforester
    How many illegals can you fit in a 60 foot semi box trailer ?


    Haha. Hope this reverses shortly.
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My hope is that the companies that use Mexican truckers will swiftly go broke due to excessive violations and late deliveries. I can hope, right?
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  • Ba SardoBa Sardo Member Posts: 562 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm sorry, but it just seems like a REAL BAD idea to let these trucks travel our highways when:

    a) They carry no insurance that we can trust
    b) The drivers will not be beholden to our laws
    c) Their trucks have not been declared safe by any of our agencies

    and

    d) We have American truckers to do the work!
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  • get_involvedget_involved Member Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's important that we keep the prices of tomatoes down. This is a good step toward that objective. Every American should be able to afford a nice salad or BLT.


    Sincerely,
    Jorge Bush
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
    Maybe the Teamsters will get a hold of some of these Mexican drivers and give them some of that special Teamsters treatment they are so famous for.
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    GOOD LORD!!! I hope so..
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ba Sardo
    I'm sorry, but it just seems like a REAL BAD idea to let these trucks travel our highways when:

    a) They carry no insurance that we can trust
    b) The drivers will not be beholden to our laws
    c) Their trucks have not been declared safe by any of our agencies

    and

    d) We have American truckers to do the work!


    hmmmm...IDEA!
    DO any of you remember an old TV show called "BJ and the Bear"?
    Well, poor Billy Joe McKay (trucker hero of teh series) was always getting harrassed by Sheriff Lobo (Claude Akins) for no good reason.

    Perhaps it is time for our state troopers to adopt Lobo tactics in dealing with Mehican truckers? Just start harrassing them and find any little reason to fine. When the comapnies using Mexican truckers are swimming in citations and it becomes more expensive than to use good old American truckers, they will stop [8D]
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KSUmarksman
    quote:Originally posted by Ba Sardo
    I'm sorry, but it just seems like a REAL BAD idea to let these trucks travel our highways when:

    a) They carry no insurance that we can trust
    b) The drivers will not be beholden to our laws
    c) Their trucks have not been declared safe by any of our agencies

    and

    d) We have American truckers to do the work!


    hmmmm...IDEA!
    DO any of you remember an old TV show called "BJ and the Bear"?
    Well, poor Billy Joe McKay (trucker hero of teh series) was always getting harrassed by Sheriff Lobo (Claude Akins) for no good reason.

    Perhaps it is time for our state troopers to adopt Lobo tactics in dealing with Mehican truckers? Just start harrassing them and find any little reason to fine. When the comapnies using Mexican truckers are swimming in citations and it becomes more expensive than to use good old American truckers, they will stop [8D]

    Fat chance of that. Actually, they probably won't be held to the same laws WE are...much like it is now..
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    They "began" rolling on US highways about 1946.
    The Port at Santa Teresa was completed in the last 15 years or so, and there were so many trucks that it had to be built, if only to slow them down before they got on the freeways.
    Mexican domeciled trucking companies are under no obligation to pay insurance premiums due to the widespread and accepted "mordida", or "bite" that is paid instead.
    The drivers get about .10-.14 a mile compared to American Union drivers that make anywhere from .28-.58 a mile and sometimes more.
    The trucks in question were bought used, from American companies that needed cash, and Mexican truck makers.
    These things are set up to haul 100,000 pounds, have a third axle on the rear, and no Jacobs brakes.
    They don't pay full pop for road use taxes due to trade tariffs and treaties for goods produced in Mexico, or delivered TO Mexico on the return trip.
    They will be equipped with almost 500 gallons of diesel(not that low-sulpher crap that Americans pay extra for, either), and they will undergo "inspections" at one in five Border crossings anticipated to be the most used.
    US automakers will likely benefit most (after the illegals, terrorists, and narcotraficantes), by shipping Mexican-made parts for free, or nearly so from their Maquiladoras near the border.
    This "new" announcement is only a reminder of what is allowed to happen when business concerns are leveraged against National Security.
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