Thread: OOIDA Needs your help

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association are urgently asking for
help to stop Mexican trucks crossing the border. http://tinyurl.com/kk9rr6
Can you help?

I started to make calls but them was told to call back tomorrow after 9 am. Saw this post to late.


A slogan I have been using is: If WE don't work, YOU don't work, in other words if they allow Mexican trucks to come in and take our jobs, American workers won't be able to pay taxes, etc.

It's terrible that we have to use verbage like that but they don't seem to care about us, all that matters to them is money, power and regaining their politcial position.

I am with you 100 percent, no, 3,000 percent! I will write something tonight to email and will start calling in the morning.
The best thing we can do is cancel NAFTA and jackhammer the Trans-Texas Highway.
I get really uncomfortable when all I see in the rear view mirror is a tractor-trailer grill, but at least I know those trucks have American drivers and their trucks undergo rigorous inspection.

NAFTA at the Health Care Recess Meetings! Monday ALIPAC Members and all groups must work on this to STOP NAU.

OOIDA National Call to Action – NAFTA

~ URGENT ~

President Obama and officials in his Administration need to hear from you TODAY!

This Sunday (August 9) President Obama will be travelling to the city of Guadalajara in Mexico to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on matters related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

A Mexican official told Reuters news service last night that Calderon plans to pressure President Obama to move forward with opening U.S. roads to Mexico-domiciled trucking companies and truck drivers.

Recent statements by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and other officials indicate that the Administration is already on the verge of giving in to pressure from Mexico and the multi-national corporations behind the push for Mexican trucks in the U.S.

President Obama and officials in his Administration need to hear from you, your family members and your fellow truckers as none of the safety or security issues have been resolved on either side of the border!

Call, write, fax to the offices below TODAY and TOMORROW!

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:

USTR’s Intergovernmental Affairs & Public Liaison office: (202) 395-6120
FAX: (202) 395-3692

Office of the United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20208

President Obama:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Comments: (202) 456-1111
FAX: (202) 456-2461

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

U.S. Department of Transportation:

Phone: (202) 366-4000

Secretary Ray LaHood
Office of the Secretary of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Suite W60-300
Washington, DC 20590

Congress:

To call your 2 Senators and your Representative in the House, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, provide the operator with your home zip code. The operator will connect you with the offices of your elected representatives.

To write and/or fax to your Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_i ... rs_cfm.cfm

To write and/or fax to your U.S. Representative:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

*You are also welcome to call OOIDA at (800) 444-5791. Association staff will be happy to help put you in touch with your elected officials in Washington.

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Please call, write, fax to the offices TODAY and TOMORROW!

Border ban angers Mexico truckers
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-166341-truckers.html

Chamber of Commerce Speaking for Trucker Aug. 10, 2009
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

Contact Information for the US SENATE and HOUSE
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-63874.html

I would contact them in their local home state offices and in DC.