The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as next week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco late on Friday [...]
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The Teamsters Union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday.
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The union said Wednesday it would ask a federal appeals courts to block the [...]
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Man in wheelchair takes ride on semi’s grill
Pictures are courtesy State Police Trooper Mark Kassuba
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Listen to the 911 calls about the wheelchair attached to the semi truck
PAW PAW – The Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post and Van Buren County Central Dispatch began receiving [...]
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It was just six inches.
That was what made the difference at 4:40 a.m. yesterday as Gilberto Cantu, a truck driver from Texas, approached the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel in his big rig, loaded with bathtubs, toilets and plumbing fixtures. The truck was 13 feet 6 inches high. The tunnel has a height [...]
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Protesting administration plan to allow Mexican long-haulers on U.S. roads
American truckers plan to circle the White House and state capitals in a “rolling blockade” to protest a federal government plan to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to operate throughout the U.S. Drivers who participate in “Truck-Out” also are being asked to run their rigs at the [...]
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Ann Turner
JBS
Thursday, April 12, 2007
According to an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2007 Supplemental Appropriations Bill introduced by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif ., the Department of Transportation’s pilot test should be blocked until the Mexican government authorizes U.S. trucking companies to operate in Mexico.
Indeed it would seem that the Mexican government [...]
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A truck driver gets lost in the Philadelphia suburbs and winds up with a $17,000 traffic ticket. Video: Mother Of All Tickets
It’s not an urban legend - it happened and the NBC 10 Investigators have the proof.
William Connell said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he got a ticket for $17,751.50.
He said [...]
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