Refused entry with a truck & camper
Had a call this morning from Mike & Terri, they are being refused entry with a truck camper on a 1 ton. My mexican partner is trying to deal with it via phone. Not sure if the issue is the truck bein...
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This subject has grown as nutso as the electrical codes thread. People who KNOW (not guess) at the reality of things down here try and help but explanations are ignored.
Look at it this way, as long as wishful thinkers do not deceive the unwary it is a moot point.
Early on, a very confused traveler did his best to try and convince others that carrying an Rx from a California doctor allowed him to possess pot and smoke it "discreetly". Now that was a serious breech of stupidity and only an image of a freeway sign, southbound on California I-5 settled the matter. It said something like Marijuana Illegal In Mexico. The fool could have gotten an otherwise innocent person thrown deep into a Mexican prison or worse if he tried to score pot from the wrong people.
Many decades have passed since Ismael Bordeja, an Aduanero passed the time with me sitting on a dock in Sta Rosalia, BCS explaining his version of how things work in Mexico. His memory is regionally famous as presenting a thoroughly intelligent (gasp) honest representative of SHCP Hacienda. He wouldn't even allow me to buy him a 200 peso soda.
Perhaps twelve years ago I was kept in the summer broiling sun exiting Mexico at Sonoyta because a lady employee could not take a clear image of the VIN number stamped in the dashboard of my car with her camera.
"No sirve!" she shook her head and showed me the blurred image on her camera. She took about three dozen shots. I re-positioned the car to no avail. The noon sun was unforgiving. After an hour and a half "we" were saved by the appearance of a big rig who pulled into the lot.
The young lady was near tears. I asked the driver if he could open one of the van cargo doors and explained why. He smiled and opened the swing door. I nosed the hood of the car under the open door and the sliver of shadow it cast was enough to take the glare off the glass. Another ten or so images were taken. One was good enough to satisfy the overheated lady. I made a gentle crack about how strict the rules must be "You have no idea" she replied. I spent the next five days nursing a bad sunburn.
This is a reality of dealing with Mexican bureaucracy. Sometimes it is cruel and unforgiving. Getting angry or throwing a hissy fit is a sure way to get a denial of entry. The interlocking internal security of the car importation process makes bribery or excepting rules near impossible for the ordinary government worker. It takes the power of a very senior DELAGAGO FEDERAL to over-ride the process. The problem with that is this person has to do it on a case-by-case basis until or if he can get Mexico to change the process at all POE's.
REALITY. A man named Sanderson emailed a panicked cry for help from Antigua Guatemala. "I have a F-450". I told him I heard Aduana on the southern border was issuing 15 day transimigrante permits that allow travelers to cross and exit Mexico before 15-days expires. I have not heard from him since.
I need to renew Quicksilver's 10-year permit next year. I will do this in Cd Cuauhtemoc. it is a 10-wheel converted Crown School bus. No chance at all of being mistaken for a transport bus. But an email was forwarded to me last week of a couple of hippie-types being denied entry at Nogales because their converted milk truck "could be" emptied of furniture in a heartbeat.
The real danger here is the denial of hundreds of tow vehicles could be "The Last Straw" for dozens of RV Parks who are already teetering on the edge of insolvency.
Just Sayin'
Look at it this way, as long as wishful thinkers do not deceive the unwary it is a moot point.
Early on, a very confused traveler did his best to try and convince others that carrying an Rx from a California doctor allowed him to possess pot and smoke it "discreetly". Now that was a serious breech of stupidity and only an image of a freeway sign, southbound on California I-5 settled the matter. It said something like Marijuana Illegal In Mexico. The fool could have gotten an otherwise innocent person thrown deep into a Mexican prison or worse if he tried to score pot from the wrong people.
Many decades have passed since Ismael Bordeja, an Aduanero passed the time with me sitting on a dock in Sta Rosalia, BCS explaining his version of how things work in Mexico. His memory is regionally famous as presenting a thoroughly intelligent (gasp) honest representative of SHCP Hacienda. He wouldn't even allow me to buy him a 200 peso soda.
Perhaps twelve years ago I was kept in the summer broiling sun exiting Mexico at Sonoyta because a lady employee could not take a clear image of the VIN number stamped in the dashboard of my car with her camera.
"No sirve!" she shook her head and showed me the blurred image on her camera. She took about three dozen shots. I re-positioned the car to no avail. The noon sun was unforgiving. After an hour and a half "we" were saved by the appearance of a big rig who pulled into the lot.
The young lady was near tears. I asked the driver if he could open one of the van cargo doors and explained why. He smiled and opened the swing door. I nosed the hood of the car under the open door and the sliver of shadow it cast was enough to take the glare off the glass. Another ten or so images were taken. One was good enough to satisfy the overheated lady. I made a gentle crack about how strict the rules must be "You have no idea" she replied. I spent the next five days nursing a bad sunburn.
This is a reality of dealing with Mexican bureaucracy. Sometimes it is cruel and unforgiving. Getting angry or throwing a hissy fit is a sure way to get a denial of entry. The interlocking internal security of the car importation process makes bribery or excepting rules near impossible for the ordinary government worker. It takes the power of a very senior DELAGAGO FEDERAL to over-ride the process. The problem with that is this person has to do it on a case-by-case basis until or if he can get Mexico to change the process at all POE's.
REALITY. A man named Sanderson emailed a panicked cry for help from Antigua Guatemala. "I have a F-450". I told him I heard Aduana on the southern border was issuing 15 day transimigrante permits that allow travelers to cross and exit Mexico before 15-days expires. I have not heard from him since.
I need to renew Quicksilver's 10-year permit next year. I will do this in Cd Cuauhtemoc. it is a 10-wheel converted Crown School bus. No chance at all of being mistaken for a transport bus. But an email was forwarded to me last week of a couple of hippie-types being denied entry at Nogales because their converted milk truck "could be" emptied of furniture in a heartbeat.
The real danger here is the denial of hundreds of tow vehicles could be "The Last Straw" for dozens of RV Parks who are already teetering on the edge of insolvency.
Just Sayin'
