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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Truck Pics!
I have long been an advocate of allowing select Mexican carriers access to the United States what better than to show the readers exactly what a Mexican truck really is. I think you’ll be surprised !!!...
USA -Life on the Road, by Porter Corn -6 July 2007: -- I work for a Mexican owned company with operations on both sides of the border. We do line haul in the United States and within the eastern half of Mexico as far south as Toluca, which is a suburb of Mexico City. None of our equipment is older than 5 years old and the line trucks have all been replaced with 2007 Peterbilt 387, such as the one I drive...
Leaving Laredo and heading south on Mx 85, all the truck dealers are situated on this stretch of highway. I really wasn’t surprised when passing the Kenworth dealership to see a rather large order of T660 conventional ready for delivery to a Mexican line haul company... Surprisingly, I did not see any of the “old wore out American Junk” that is the mainstay of the Mexican trucking industry, as some people believe. Everything on the highway was from the 4 major manufacturers. KW, Pete, Freightliner and International. It seems the line haul companies prefer Freightliner Columbias and Kenworth’s while the heavy haul dump trucks and tankers prefer the more durable and sturdy International 9400’s... This is representative of the fleets in Mexico, not the fantasy fleets dreamed up in the imaginations of the opponents of the Mexican Truck initiative... The next day, standing at my window in my preferred hotel, City Express and watching the traffic coming up from Monterrey, I never saw the mythical “mexican junk truck”!... But yes, there are junk trucks in Mexico. Some 50 years old and still doing a days work for their owners. We used to see some of these behemoths on American highways, but never again and slowly, they are disappearing from Mexican roads as the owners upgrade to newer equipment...
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