Thread: First certified Mexican truck crosses U.S. border

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BREAKING NEWS: First certified Mexican truck crosses U.S. border
By Randy Grider


Fernando Paez owns Transportes Olympic, which on Thursday, Sept. 6, became the first Mexican carrier to receive authority from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to operate in the United States under the agency's new pilot program.


At approximately 12:50 a.m. (CDT) Saturday, Sept. 8, the first Mexico-domiciled truck authorized under the Bush administration’s pilot program to transport cargo within the United States cleared federal inspections at the U.S. border in Laredo bound for North Carolina.

In light of the special occasion, border agents had moved the late-model Freightliner owned by Transportes Olympic of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to the front of the line for an extensive inspection.

After more than two hours of inspections, driver Luis Gonzales headed north on I-35 and was expected within 30 minutes to cross the 25-mile commercial zone that has been the boundary for Mexican trucks since the United States closed its border to its southern neighbors in 1982.

Despite scattered protests from some American trucking and labor organizations since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration gave the green light to the pilot program Thursday night, the truck crossed without incident, reports Jorge Arboleda, editor of Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Transportista magazine. Arboleda rode along with Gonzales as he left Monterrey, Mexico, at about 6 p.m.(Transportista, a Spanish-language trucking magazine, is owned by Randall-Reilly Publishing, which also publishes eTrucker, Overdrive, Truckers News, Commercial Carrier Journal and other trucking publications.)

Forty-year-old Fernando Paez, owner of Transportes Olympic, was both excited and a little nervous Friday afternoon.

“We’re only taking one truck just in case the Teamsters burn one of them,â€

I've been trying to find out, are we tax payers, footing the bill for their drug tests, done by an American company?

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"I've been trying to find out, are we tax payers, footing the bill for their drug tests, done by an American company?"


It would not surprise me a bit if we were footing the entire bill for drug testing and inspections goes without saying. You know the border patrol or other American agency is checking records and getting paid. I don't think it will be Mexico paying either. I hope at least the owners of these foreign trucking companies are being sent the bills since they want the privilege and not us taxpaying Americans again. Mexico already gets enough free aid from us and money sent!


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