OIG report: FMCSA’s data on Mexican carriers invalid due to lack of participants
FMCSA’s work on the program complied with Congressional requirements, the Inspector General report notes, but the program had so few Mexican carrier participants that the data produced is insufficient.
View ArticleFMCSA opens border: Mexican carriers will be allowed to apply for U.S....
The move comes less than three months after the end of the agency's cross-border pilot program, that data from which has been questioned by the DOT Inspector General.
View ArticleOpening the border: Data on Mexican carriers ‘robust,’ FMCSA says; trucking...
Readers note their concerns about Mexican carriers undercutting U.S. carriers. Also, FMCSA clarifies the data it used to make its decision.
View ArticlePOLL: Long-term impacts of U.S.-Mexico cross-border long-haul?
This poll follows the U.S. government's recent announcement of an impending opening of long-haul cross-border opportunity for Mexican carriers? What will be the primary U.S. result, as you see it?
View ArticleFMCSA officially opens authority application process for Mexican carriers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officially began Jan. 15 accepting applications for Mexican carriers to apply for authority to operate in the U.S. beyond the commercial border zone.
View ArticleCongress may use highway bill to challenge FMCSA’s cross-border expansion
One Congressman already says he intends to challenge FMCSA's cross-border expansion.
View ArticleTeamsters hit FMCSA with lawsuit over move to open border for Mexican carriers
The Teamsters’ lawsuit alleges that FMCSA's report to Congress — on which it based its decision to open the border to all Mexican-domiciled carriers — “is arbitrary and capricious."
View ArticleOOIDA tries to join Teamsters’ case against FMCSA, cross-border trucking as...
Following the Teamsters March-filed lawsuit against the Department of Transportation over its expansion of the cross-border trucking, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association this week...
View ArticleDOT expands Mexican-U.S. border freight zones in Texas, New Mexico
The commercial border zone expansion will give Mexican-domiciled and U.S.-domiciled carriers and drivers a bigger zone to pick up and drop freight near El Paso, along with making some New Mexico-based...
View ArticleU.S. accepts Mexico’s truck inspection standards
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced this week it now accepts Mexico’s criteria for annual inspection of trucks domiciled there after concluding its inspection standards were...
View ArticleDOT officially expands freight zone at Mexican border in Texas
The changes come by way of the opening of a new cross-border bridge, prompting the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish new boundaries for the El Paso border zone. The...
View ArticleFMCSA: Mexican carriers can now lease equipment to U.S. carriers
FMCSA says Mexican-domiciled carriers are now allowed to lease equipment to U.S. motor carriers regardless of where the freight is going, as long as the equipment is up to FMCSA regulations.
View ArticleAs Congress eyes NAFTA rework, FMCSA policy granting Mexican carriers’...
Cross-border trucking with Mexico saw action in Congress last week, and it is set to see action next month in court, as a federal court is slated to hear arguments March 15 against a 2014 FMCSA policy...
View ArticleCourt sides with DOT in cross-border trucking case, allowing Mexican carriers...
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Teamsters Union challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s cross-border trucking program. FMCSA in January 2015 opened the U.S....
View ArticleCross-border trucking reforms part of NAFTA negotiations
A rework of the U.S. DOT’s cross-border trucking program with Mexico is under consideration in a planned update of the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to Teamster staffer Mike Dolan....
View ArticleNAFTA replacement would give U.S. the ability to limit cross-border trucking...
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the newly announced trade deal meant to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, will allow the U.S. more control over the existing...
View ArticleCabotage rules enforcement spike ongoing from Southern border areas
Federal investigators have found violations of cabotage rules by U.S. companies and foreign drivers otherwise engaged in cross-border trucking operations. Those rules prevent foreign nationals in the...
View ArticleFirst cross-border Mexican fleet talks challenges, standards of operating in...
Olympic Transport, a 140-truck Monterrey, Mexico-based fleet that's operated in cross-border operations since 2007, says that despite stigmas of Mexican-domiciled fleets among U.S. carriers and...
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