Thread: Teamsters Hail Delay of Mexican Truck Operating Permit

Teamsters Hail Delay of Mexican Truck Operating Permit

U.S. DOT Cites Safety Concerns Raised By Teamsters

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Transportation Department's delay of the first permit for a Mexican trucking company to start traveling freely throughout the United States. The delay was based on safety concerns raised by the Teamsters Union and its allies.

"The U.S. Transportation Department was right in heeding our safety concerns and delaying the first permit to operate trucks from Mexico freely throughout the United States. We are glad that transportation officials are now taking our concerns seriously.

"We will continue our fight to keep our borders closed to unsafe Mexican trucks. After years of litigation, intense congressional oversight, overwhelming public opposition and an intense drug war raging in Mexico, it is a reckless move to allow Mexico unfettered access to our highways.

"The fly-by-night Tijuana operator passed a preliminary inspection last month -- a colossal bungling by transportation officials. The carrier has one unsafe, 20-year-old semi-tractor trailer that our government designated a 'gross polluter.' If this is the cream of the crop of Mexican operators, we can only imagine what will be crossing our border in the future.

"The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration clearly ignored Congress in conducting inspections that didn't meet the legal requirements. The Teamsters Union and our allies have filed a lawsuit to stop this illegal and dangerous cross-border trucking program before people get hurt.

"This delay proves what we've been saying all along: Opening the border to dangerous Mexican trucks is not in the interest of Americans. It will cost thousands of truck and warehouse jobs that we so desperately need, it will undermine border security, it will pollute our air and it will harm the driving public."

Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information.

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"The fly-by-night Tijuana operator passed a preliminary inspection last month -- a colossal bungling by transportation officials. The carrier has one unsafe, 20-year-old semi-tractor trailer that our government designated a 'gross polluter.' If this is the cream of the crop of Mexican operators, we can only imagine what will be crossing our border in the future.

This was predictable.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

"The fly-by-night Tijuana operator passed a preliminary inspection last month -- a colossal bungling by transportation officials. The carrier has one unsafe, 20-year-old semi-tractor trailer that our government designated a 'gross polluter.' If this is the cream of the crop of Mexican operators, we can only imagine what will be crossing our border in the future.

This was predictable.

ditto!

Hey Teamsters, why did you vote for Obama?

Originally Posted by TakingBackSoCal

Hey Teamsters, why did you vote for Obama?

Have you received an answer?

"This delay proves what we've been saying all along: Opening the border to dangerous Mexican trucks is not in the interest of Americans. It will cost thousands of truck and warehouse jobs that we so desperately need, it will undermine border security, it will pollute our air and it will harm the driving public."

Gee just what we need more people that can't read driving on our streets...I bet they are already doing it...have you all noticed how many 10 wheeler trucking accidents we've had lately, many of them deadly???

The teamster will say it is okay when these Mexican truckers all become part of the union though and are paying their union dues. That is all it is about, guaranteed they couldn't care less about the American Truckers...only the bottom line.

Not sure the "rank and file" want the ILLEGALS doing their union jobs but their labor leadership just want the dues. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY! Big Labor, the leadership hierarchy of organized labor, is the same as any other Special Interest Group, Elitist Political Contributors and their Elitist Politicians; they are in it for the money and power and could care less for the men and women in the plants, on the factory floor, on the farms, in transportation, or the offices. The purpose is to pull in dues for themselves and gain political power from their guarantee of votes for their Elitist Politicians.