It’s how rumors get started. Our friend Oliver Patton at Trucking Info writes an article titled “Immigration Reform could effect truck driver pool” in which he says;
Almost a year-and-a-half after it applied to participate in the Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program, Mexico-domiciled carrier Grupo Behr has been granted authority to participate in the project. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made it official in a Federal Register notice published on February 19, 2013. Grupo Behr’s application was sidelined by OOIDA and others
An autopsy report released to the media Thursday proves that 16 year old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was wantonly and maliciously murdered by a still unidentified US Border Patrol agent as he was walking along a street in Nogales Sonora that parallels the border fence. The report, provided to media outlets by the attorney for the
Sad news to report today with the death of Donald B. Lockridge, father of award winning broadcast journalist and my friend Evan Lockridge. Mr. Lockridge was 94 when he passed away Tuesday, January 29, 2013 surrounded by his family. Donald Lockridge was one of the last pioneers of the trucking industry, having been president of
The marijuana harvest season is in full swing in Mexico right now and with illegal immigration down drastically along the southern border, the growers are taking exceptional risks in getting their product to market. This was evidenced at a news conference Tuesday where U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials showed the 7 tons of marijuana
The Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) announced Friday the addition of Ben Siegrist as the Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs in the Washington, DC, office, joining Laura O’Neil as some of the highest paid and most ineffectual employees in the OOIDA hierarchy. Siegrist worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, working with both the presidential
Real trucking radio came to an end on SiriusXM satellite radio on the last Friday of 2012 as the award winning and critically acclaimed The Lockridge Report made it’s final broadcast with a bittersweet “safety valve Friday”. The Lockridge Report which went on the air in February 2008, was hosted by internationally recognized trucking journalist
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto unveiled a package of educational reforms Monday that will bring Mexico’s public education system out of the dark ages and into the 21st century and sets up a head on battle with the head of the teachers union seen by many as the most corrupt and powerful woman in Mexico. Pena
A week has passed since the crash of the Lear 25 near Iturbide Nuevo Leon that took the life of Mexican superstat Jenni Rivera, and 6 others including the pilots who were identified as Miguel Perez and Alejandro Torres. The bodies, what remains of them, have been recovered, identified and returned to the families. Jenni’s
Just when you thought the name of Jabin Bogan had faded into the obscurity it deserves, the Bogan saga continues! On December 6, 2012, a lawsuit was filed in US District Court - Fort Worth division, by David Lansky and his company, United Nations Ammo against Dennis Mekenye and DEMCO Express, Bogan’s employer at the
It has now been confirmed that Mexican-American superstar Jenni Rivera was killed in the pre-dawn crash of the Lear 25 business class jet she was traveling in Sunday morning after performing a concert at Arena Monterrey before a crowd of over 15,000 screaming, adoring fans.
Authorities in northern Mexico are confirming that a small plane carrying Mexican-American singer and reality star Jenni Rivera has gone missing after taking off from the city of Monterrey. It is confirmed that Rivera and the other 5 aboard are dead. Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state government, told Milenio television on Sunday
We’re all familiar with the subways and trains operating in cities such as New York and Chicago. Dirty, crowded, defaced with graffiti. Surly and rude passengers packed like sardines in a can. But not in Monterrey Nuevo Leon. Northern Mexico’s jewel of an industrial city. Not third world by any stretch of the imagination with
Lawyers for OOIDA and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and their allied bogus safety groups such as Public Citizen were in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Dec. 6, trying once again to get a court to stop the Mexican cross-border trucking program. This is not the first time these groups
About noon Friday, Jabin Akeem Bogan came bouncing across the Bridge of the America’s into the arms of his waiting mother, causing a traffic jam as they embraced in the middle of the busy lanes, ending a 7 month odyssey for Bogan at the same place it began. What followed was a carefully scripted press
Attorney’s representing the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca, the 15 year old teen wantonly murdered by US Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa Jr in 2010, continue to accuse the US Department of Justice of a coverup in the crime, citing their refusal to release and make public videotapes of the incident. These tapes disprove
With the recent attention we and others have brought to the rash of murders of Mexican citizens on Mexican soil by US Border Patrol agents, we’re coming closer to obtaining justice for those victims of these renegade agents. On June 7, 2010, 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernández Güereca, was murdered by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jesus
2014 will be the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and love it or hate it, what a ride it’s been, and the next 20 years will be even better. At the opening of the NAFTA 2.0 conference held in San Antonio this past week to commemorate 20 years since the signing
Friday’s announcement by Hostess Brands Inc. that it will liquidate its business after striking workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union did not come to an agreement with company management, led to a run on Twinkies quickly emptying store shelves. Entrepreneurs quickly seized the moment with boxes of Twinkies appearing on
Jabin Akeem “Wrong Way” Bogan was released from Villa Aldama Federal Prison in Mexico Thursday night after payment of bonds and fines totaling $2000.00 US for his September 12 conviction for possessing prohibited ammunition in Mexico. Bogan has been held in the maximum security federal prison in the state of Veracruz since his arrest in
USA TODAY Violent crime continued to fall in the largest U.S. cities along the Southwest border last year even as neighboring Mexican crime groups clashed for control of the illegal drug and human smuggling trades. Ten of the 13 largest cities in Texas, Arizona and California closest to the Mexico border recorded reductions in overall
Jabin Akeem Bogan, the US trucker from Dallas who was arrested in April and charged with smuggling prohibited ammunition into Mexico, was formally sentenced today to 3 years in prison and a fine of $2,680.00 pesos or about $205.00 US. On October 30, Judge Victor Manuel Jimenez Flores Third Unitary (Appeals) Court upheld the sentence
