Life on the Road – Trucking News Blog

Since this is the weekend for Mexican trucks crossing into the US, I would like to remind drivers of this -

Politicians want the border open, not truck drivers
Rolando Ortega, a delegate from the National Confederation of Mexican Carriers, doesn’t believe Mexican truckers want to travel into the United States. “We don’t want to go to the United States, and the Americans don’t want to go to Mexico… It doesn’t reflect the reality of the transportation industry,” he told the Chronicle. He said that most Mexican trucking companies that deliver to the U.S. already struggle with high insurance rates, longer lines at the border and a lack of credit. Ortega added that most Mexican truckers cannot read signs in English, are unfamiliar with the U.S. highway system and lack the knowledge to find cargo for a return trip to Mexico.

“The only companies that want to do that are the trans-national companies and the companies that move their own cargo,” Oscar Garza, another delegate of the Mexican carriers, told the Chronicle.

If you see a Mexican truck deep in the US, don’t be stupid and do something you’ll regret later by harassing the driver or messing with the truck. Take your frustrations out on the guy behind the wheel of the Government, not the guy in the truck. He’s a truck driver like you and me trying to make a living, driving where his company tells him to drive. Nothing more, nothing less.