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Oct 3, 2007

AMERICANS' TRUCKS TO MEXICO * USA - The grim reality of trucking in Mexico

The three bodies found recently about 200 miles south of the U.S. border in Mexico were believed to have been killed by a gang that targets truck drivers just trying to earn a living

Grain Valley,MO,USA -AP/Land Line Magazine -October 2, 2007: -- ... The three fell victim to a gang that robs truckers and sometimes kills them. According to The Associated Press, female members of the group posed as prostitutes to get truckers to stop. The other members of the gang would then rob and sometimes kill the truckers... These stories are not new. They are just getting more attention because of the cross-border trucking program... What these stories are going to do is highlight a problem that is commonplace in Mexico. Cargo theft has long been a problem... I asked how many drivers volunteered to haul this freight knowing there was a strong likelihood the freight could still be hijacked. Not many was his answer. They had to pay a premium – at that point – to the drivers... That’s going to end. Mexican CDL holders are used to that environment and given as little as they are paid, would be enticed to face the hijackers for far less than their U.S. counterparts... There comes a point when free trade, dominated by fear, has a cost no one should be expected to pay...

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Oct 1, 2007

NORTHAMERICAN TRUCKS' TO MEXICO

* USA - El Paso firm blazes new NAFTA trails

El Paso,TX,USA -El Paso Times,by Louie Gilot -30 Sept 2007: -- When the Department of Transportation started its binational trucking program, many on the U.S. side wondered why U.S. truckers would want to drive into Mexico... But Scott McLaughlin was interested... This month, McLaughlin's El Paso-based Stagecoach Cartage & Distribution became the first U.S. company to send a truck deep into Mexico... The truck, a 600-cubic-foot bulk tank filled with plastic pellets to be melted into disposable razors, crossed the border at Nogales, Ariz., and headed south to Obregon, near Hermosillo, about 370 miles from the border... McLaughlin, the company president, followed the truck in a rented car...


McLaughlin said the response to his test trip was overwhelmingly positive. Clients asked for quotes for Mexico service, and drivers volunteered for future trips... But McLaughlin has no immediate plans to send other trucks south... (Photos by Mark Lambie/El Paso Times: Above: Scott A. McLaughlin, president of El Paso's Stagecoach Cartage & Distribution, was the first carrier to get permits to travel to the interior of Mexico. Above, McLaughlin holds one of the license plates for his truck's travel into Mexico - Below: Preparing the truck prior to the border crossing in Nogales that morning)

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Sep 16, 2007

* Mexico - U.S. Truck Goes deep into

Trip comes days after Senate votes to end program

Washington,DC,USA -AP/The Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX), by SUZANNE GAMBOA -Sept. 15, 2007: -- A U.S.-owned commercial truck became the first to drive deep into Mexico on Friday, days after the Senate voted to quit funding a program allowing Mexican trucks to do the same in the United States... The U.S. Department of Transportation said a truck owned by El Paso-based Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution entered at Nogales, Mexico, across the border from Nogales, Ariz., late Friday morning. U.S. trucks had been banned from operating on Mexican roads... The truck was delivering a load of plastic resin to Obregon, Mexico, about 270 miles from the Arizona border...

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