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Dec 7, 2012

TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA & Mexico

* USA / Mexico - Transport companies cash in on Mexico trade boom

Mexico,DF,MEX -Reuters, by Lynn Adler & Liz Diaz. And Patricia Kranz, Edward Tobin, Andre Grenon and Jeffrey Benkoe -Dec 4, 2012: -- U.S. rail and trucking companies are making big investments on both sides of the border with Mexico to capitalize on booming trade between the two countries... Every day, about 10 Kansas City Southern trains crisscross the border at Laredo, Texas, hauling everything from cars to chemicals - up from about six trains just three years ago... Total cross-border freight by train and truck has surged nearly 35 percent in the past five years, according to U.S. government data. At $291 billion through September, the volume of goods crossing the border this year is set to top $352 billion in 2011 and $308 billion in 2010... The Mexican automobile industry's double-digit production and export growth has boosted transportation needs. Kansas City Southern expects Mexico's vehicle output to leap 30 percent to 40 percent by 2015... The company, which already serves nine auto plants in Mexico, said Honda Motor Co Ltd, Mazda Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Audi AG will open plants there in the next two years. Five steel plants are also opening... But most of the problems are on the roads. The Mexican Council on Northeast Foreign Trade, a private trade association, said 85 percent of illegal goods sent from Mexico to the United States were found in trucks... A federal police officer who requested anonymity said it was a very big problem with life-and-death consequences... Swift runs 700 trucks south of the U.S. border and plans to add up to 100 next year, Chief Operating Officer, Richard Stocking, said in mid-November... Whether companies go it alone or form partnerships, experts say Mexico is a top market for U.S. companies...


* DC / USA - Oral arguments heard in OOIDA's lawsuit seeking to stop cross-border program 

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line -6 Dec 2012: -- Lawyers for OOIDA were in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Dec. 6, arguing against the Mexican cross-border trucking program... “Implementation of the pilot program is arbitrary, capricious and abuse of discretion and otherwise not in accordance with law,” the Association’s petition states... The Association has adamantly opposed opening the border because Mexico has failed to institute regulations and enforcement programs that are even remotely similar to those in the United States and because there would be no relevant corresponding reciprocity for U.S. truckers... The OOIDA lawsuit points out that Mexico has no reliable system for tracking a driver’s safety record or medical or drug and alcohol history...


* Minnesota - Seeking solutions to the truck parking shortage 

Minneapolis,MN,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Dec. 7, 2012: -- It’s an issue that’s been the subject of five formal studies since 1996 and one upon which several technology research projects are now busily grappling with: a shortage of truck parking spaces along major freight corridors in the U.S... The University of Minnesota is leading a project that’s testing a truck parking availability system (TPAS) aimed at using technology – in this case, a network of cameras tied by wireless networks into a central database – to more effectively manage public truck parking slots along the highway... The project is currently managing cameras at one rest stop along I-94 in Minnesota, with camera systems at three more rest stops due to go online in 2013... Ted Morris with the computer science department at the University of Minnesota, said the system accurately detects available parking spaces 97% of the time and conveys that information to drivers through three different portals: via a web site on the internet, a smart phone app, and what’s called variable messaging signage (VMS) positioned in two locations, one placed 20 to 30 minutes away from the rest stop and another placed 2 miles from it...

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