I'm sorry but it seems no one wants to actually learn what is true and what isn't.
If you fall for the BS line that the teamsters and others are propagating in the news, then I feel sorry for you.
I can only see the negitive in this as it would affect us in the way it already affects us. It won't change the rates that are already rock bottom, it won't take the jobs from those except for the very marginal drivers who work for horrible carriers to begin with and it won't change the fact that we already have an influx of Mexican trucks operating here and have been for years.
If we want to worry about jobs, how about demanding the congress cuts back on the H-1b visas and the other visa programs that allow people with "skills" to enter the country and take jobs from us?
Um here's one for you ... why isn't there a complaint about Canadians working over here and living there while being paid just a bit less than American workers because their health care is "paid" for? There are a lot of border companies who won't hire Americans to do the work?
Why is it we can't focus on fixing our own industry but we have to complain about something that is actually not a bad thing because it opens us up for more work. It isn't like we are going to have 20,000 trucks waiting on the other side of the border to come over here and steal the work.
When you look at what is really going on, the crap you see in Eagle pass, Laredo, Yuma and San Diego seems to be those local cross border junks that can't make it father than 50 miles. It is the same as the trucks up here that are used for border crossings, they are marginally junk trucks with a little life left in them and they are beaten until they quit than another one is found for $5000 to replace it. When I was up in San Fransisco, I didn't see the old junk but rather new and good looking Volvos and Macks. BIG difference between the two.
I agree with OVM, our real problems here is an idea that we need not to be part of the global economy but isolate ourselves. We already have issues with this idea that Canada is our enemy and we need to inspect every little truck and van that comes over here, while they actually seem to trust what we say when we hit the border. Jobs won't come here not because of the trucking industry but because we are a business unfriendly country. Change that and we won't have to worry about any trucks from Mexico.
It will not affect us?
Wrong.
A broker now has an office in Laredo to handle the freight coming over from Mexico to place on an American truck.
There will be little or no reason to keep it open since he can load on the Mexican side and that driver from Mexico can bring it direct say to Detroit, eliminating the need to place the freight on an American truck.
Think of the lost revenue to the American trucking industry on a daily basis.
Now, that same Mexican truck can reload in Detroit and take freight back direct into Mexico, thus additional lost revenue.
Now we are talking about taking more revenue away from the American trucking industry.
You speak of problems in the industry that we need to fix, yet when we talk about our own government signing this deal you say it's a good thing, that it opens jobs for American truckers.
How? Where?
This bill does nothing than take revenue away from us and simple hands it to a foreigner and you say this is not an issue.
In addition think of the dock workers in these border towns that will not be needed.
Think of the lost tax revenue these towns will miss which in turn will lead to the trickle down effect and less municipal employees etc etc.
This is a major issue, a major kick in the *** to the American trucker.
Wake up my fellow drivers the day of those loads to and from border towns are coming to an end.
Its time to develop a new game plan cause your government just tapped into your income...again.
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