Mex truckers stopped by James P. Hoffa, Teamster Pres.

[Wolfmoon]

Teamsters expand lawsuit against Mexican trucks

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WASHINGTON - The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday expanded its lawsuit against the government in a long-running battle that has stopped Mexican trucks from coming deep into the United States.

In papers filed in federal appeals court in Washington, the union said the government must first assess the environmental impact of a pilot project before letting it continue. The first Mexican truck in the pilot program crossed the border last month.

Teamsters President James P. Hoffa said opening the border to the trucks is an attack on the environment, on highway safety and on American truckers and warehouse workers.

``It's outrageous enough that we've outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we're bringing foreign workers here to take our jobs,'' Hoffa said in a statement. ``This is another pressure the American middle-class doesn't need.''

 

[Mr. H.]

Are the trucks from Mexico held to the same registration and vehicle inspection standards that we have here in the U.S.?

 

[Mad Scientist]

``It's outrageous enough that we've outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we're bringing foreign workers here to take our jobs,'' Hoffa said in a statement. ``This is another pressure the American middle-class doesn't need.''

Union types are starting to wake up! But this isn't just starting now, it's been happening for at least 30 years.

 

[Wolfmoon]

1 Mil Safety Violations Won’t Keep Mexican Trucks Out Of U.S.
1 Mil Safety Violations Won

In Texas alone, 1.2 million Mexican trucks had safety violations between 2007 and 2011, according to an El Paso newspaper report that quotes official statistics from state public safety officials. Among the safety violations in trucks coming from Mexico were bad brakes, flat tires, axle problems and defective lights. During that period inspectors placed more than 30,000 trucks and 625 drivers out of service.

Federal transportation officials claim that, under the new cross-border trucking program, all Mexican vehicles will be thoroughly inspected and all must comply with rigid U.S. safety standards. The Mexican trucks, notorious for their dismal, third-world country safety standards, must also be equipped with electronic monitoring systems to keep track of drivers’ service hours.

Don’t be surprised if U.S. taxpayers get stuck with the tab.

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Mexican trucks to haul freight on U.S. roads - USATODAY.com

"We think it's unsafe, unfair and wrong for America," says Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. "It's a danger to highway safety. … It will cost thousands of trucking and warehouse jobs."

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PR-USA.net - Deluge of Safety Deficiencies Plague Trucks Entering U.S. From Mexico

El Paso is currently the only Texas city with permanent border inspection stations dedicated to detecting safety problems on inbound trucks. Between September of 2007 and July of 2011, 1.2 million truck inspections were conducted at two state facilities in El Paso.

These inspections revealed a total of 1,004,213 violations. Citations were issued for a wide array of safety issues, including brake problems, flat tires and lights that were not functioning properly. While a warning or a ticket sufficed for minor violations, 31,519 trucks were deemed unfit to enter the United States and were placed out of service completely.

Even when the trucks themselves measured up, drivers sometimes fell short.

 

[waltky]

Police dig under Michigan driveway in search for labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa...

Police to search Michigan driveway for labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa
September 27, 2012 – A tip from a dying man could finally be the missing clue in the mystery of what happened to Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished 37 years ago.

MyFoxDetroit.com reports investigators are searching the ground beneath a suburban Detroit driveway after a man told authorities he saw a body being put into the ground around the same time Hoffa disappeared. The man is said to be dying of cancer and was not identified by police. After the tip was received by the Roseville Police Department, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground penetrating radar on a 12-foot-by-12-foot patch beneath the driveway, said agency spokesman Brad Wurfel. It found "that the earth had been disturbed at some point in time," Berlin said.

The environmental quality department on Friday will take soil samples that will be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to "have it tested for human decomposition," Berlin said. Results are not expected until next week. Police also plan to dig at the home on Friday. Roseville Police Chief James Berlin tells MyFoxDetroit.com he believes something may be buried there, but he isn't sure it is the body of Hoffa. "We are not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa, the timeline doesn't add up," Berlin said. "We're investigating a body that may be at the location."

Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside a suburban Detroit restaurant where he was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain. His body has not been found despite a number of searches over the years.

Innumerable theories about the demise of the union boss have surfaced over time. Among them: He was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant. The search has continued under a backyard pool north of Detroit in 2003, under the floor of a Detroit home in 2004 and at a horse farm northwest of Detroit in 2006. The FBI had no immediate comment on the new effort in Roseville to The Associated Press.

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[Cowman]

Jimmy Hoffa was dissolved in a vat of acid, not buried.

 

[waltky]

Granny thinks he's baskin' onna beach in Brazil...

Hoffa hunt awaits forensic results
Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Police in Roseville, Mich., say they are awaiting forensic results to learn if a body, perhaps that of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, is under a local driveway.

Police Chief James Berlin said his department had anticipated results Monday from soil samples removed from the site by police and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Friday and sent for analysis to the forensic and anthropology department of Michigan State University in Lansing, Mich., but has since learned of a delay. The findings will be available Tuesday, he said.

If the samples, four tubes of dirt each about 4 feet long, come back positive for evidence of human remains, a meeting with the FBI, Michigan State Police and the university will be held to determine who will aid local police in an exhumation, Berlin said.

Hoffa disappeared in 1975, his body never found, and the long list of rumors and theories about his final resting place have included beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey and beneath the General Motors headquarters in downtown Detroit. The FBI also dug up a Milford Township, Mich., horse farm and destroyed a barn there in 2006, searching for Hoffa's remains, The Detroit News noted.

The latest search came after an unnamed tipster telephoned Roseville police Aug. 27, saying he had seen what appeared to be a body being buried in a shed with a dirt floor that had been located on the present site of the driveway the day or the day after Hoffa disappeared, the newspaper said.

Read more: Hoffa hunt awaits forensic results - UPI.com

 

[editec]

Get 'em the fuck off the US roads.

The only people in the USA who ought to be professional truck drivers on US roads are US citizens.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

I was under the impression that allowing these trucks was an Usa obligation under nafta. One which we have failed to honor until now.