Moving to Baja
My employer in Canada has scored us a pair of visas to work in Baja for the next year or so. Our home will be in LaPaz, Baja Sur. We will be bringing down our semi-truck/horse trailer and a couple ...
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North
Having been a trucker in the US for quite a few years I am probably more conscious of trucks and truckers than many folks. Yes, I have seen quite a few trucks in Mexico that could use some attention in the area of safety. But most are very good trucks and well maintained by companies and drivers. Most Mexican drivers I have met are excellent drivers and very safety conscious. It was only recently (less than a year?)that the US began to allow Mexican trucks into the US and they have very strict requirements for both the trucks and the truckers. The drivers must speak English and understand US road signs and rules of the road. Their trucks must pass rigid safety inspections just as ours do - (I was inspected almost every time I entered California - as well as several other states - thorough safety inspections and checks with a state certified mechanic rolling around on a creeper under the vehicle checking every brake slack adjuster and all hoses and so on - as well as using a depth meter on any tire they suspect of being worn - while another mechanic climbs all over the rest of the vehicle - any commercial vehicle entering California or the US goes through a similar inspection - in California they were required every 3 months - and I was registered in Indiana with one truck and Colorado with the other - not a California driver or vehicle) So this brings the question - how do these vehicles from Mexico get all the way to the Yukon without going through the US? I know for a fact they would never be allowed in the US.
Mexicans bring their dilapidated class 8's and bald tyres up North
Having been a trucker in the US for quite a few years I am probably more conscious of trucks and truckers than many folks. Yes, I have seen quite a few trucks in Mexico that could use some attention in the area of safety. But most are very good trucks and well maintained by companies and drivers. Most Mexican drivers I have met are excellent drivers and very safety conscious. It was only recently (less than a year?)that the US began to allow Mexican trucks into the US and they have very strict requirements for both the trucks and the truckers. The drivers must speak English and understand US road signs and rules of the road. Their trucks must pass rigid safety inspections just as ours do - (I was inspected almost every time I entered California - as well as several other states - thorough safety inspections and checks with a state certified mechanic rolling around on a creeper under the vehicle checking every brake slack adjuster and all hoses and so on - as well as using a depth meter on any tire they suspect of being worn - while another mechanic climbs all over the rest of the vehicle - any commercial vehicle entering California or the US goes through a similar inspection - in California they were required every 3 months - and I was registered in Indiana with one truck and Colorado with the other - not a California driver or vehicle) So this brings the question - how do these vehicles from Mexico get all the way to the Yukon without going through the US? I know for a fact they would never be allowed in the US.
