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 ...
Forum Discussion
Interesting that more and more of the new readers are taking to PMs instead of posting.
Anyway, just received an PM saying Mexican trucks have been allowed in the US since 2009 . . . http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2011/07/u-s-mexico-to-allow-cross-border-trucking-begin-to-lift-mexican-tariffs/ . . . so I went to the link and noted it was dated July 6, 2011 and talked about how they are going to start letting Mexican trucks into the US. A one line quote "The signing ends a two-year stalemate that began in March 2009" which appears to be where the PMer go the 2009 from. The article states the agreement was just passed on Wednesday so probably whatever Wednesday before the article was written on July 6, 2011. Maybe my PMer does not know the definition of "stalemate"?
Another quote "Department of Transportation (DOT) officials could not say Wednesday how soon companies might be certified, only that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would begin taking applications from Mexican carriers." AGAIN - READ the article and look at the date - July 6, 2011 - that is not 2009!!
Why not post the correct info on the forum? Why the need for PMs?
The point to my earlier posts on this topic were in response to the original poster commenting about unsafe Mexican trucks in the US. I posted the information about when the trucks started crossing and what the requirements are to help the OP to understand some of the facts and what is going on along the US/Mexico border. It is certainly easy to see how so much misinformation finds its way all over the internet. There has probably never been so many misinformed people in the history of the world - thanks to the internet.
PLEASE - I do not respond well to PMs - a forum is for posting for all to read.
Anyway, just received an PM saying Mexican trucks have been allowed in the US since 2009 . . . http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2011/07/u-s-mexico-to-allow-cross-border-trucking-begin-to-lift-mexican-tariffs/ . . . so I went to the link and noted it was dated July 6, 2011 and talked about how they are going to start letting Mexican trucks into the US. A one line quote "The signing ends a two-year stalemate that began in March 2009" which appears to be where the PMer go the 2009 from. The article states the agreement was just passed on Wednesday so probably whatever Wednesday before the article was written on July 6, 2011. Maybe my PMer does not know the definition of "stalemate"?
Another quote "Department of Transportation (DOT) officials could not say Wednesday how soon companies might be certified, only that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would begin taking applications from Mexican carriers." AGAIN - READ the article and look at the date - July 6, 2011 - that is not 2009!!
Why not post the correct info on the forum? Why the need for PMs?
The point to my earlier posts on this topic were in response to the original poster commenting about unsafe Mexican trucks in the US. I posted the information about when the trucks started crossing and what the requirements are to help the OP to understand some of the facts and what is going on along the US/Mexico border. It is certainly easy to see how so much misinformation finds its way all over the internet. There has probably never been so many misinformed people in the history of the world - thanks to the internet.
PLEASE - I do not respond well to PMs - a forum is for posting for all to read.
