Archive for the 'Cross Border Ops' Category
On Tuesday, September 11th, the Senate voted to ban Mexican truck from operating on U.S. roads. The Senate approved a bill proposed by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., by a margin of 74-24 that prohibits the Transportation Department from “…spending money on a North American Free Trade Agreement pilot progam giving Mexican trucks greater access to [...]
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday, August 31st that as many as one hundred Mexican trucking companies will be able to run and operate in anywhere in the United States for the next year. The Teamsters Union, the Sierra Club and the Public Citizen had made an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Land Line Magazine reports that the date for cross border trucking operations with Mexico is still up in the air. July 15 had been the original target date with other sources in the media reporting that the DOT had hoped to start in August of 2007. One Mexican publication puts the start date during the [...]
1.2 Percent Increase In Tonnage Index According To The American Trucking Association
The American Trucking Association reports a second consecutive monthly gain in it’s adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index. An increase of 1.2 percent was reported for March 2007. Bob Costello, ATA Chief Economist, said “the year over year improvement was a positive sign, but that [...]
