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The DOT has bitten off more than it can chew...

Concerning Mexican Trucking in the United States I saw an article that the Department of Transportation is having logistical concerns about the program. Here is a quote from the DOT that was in the article:

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“We found that FMCSA has not identified the specific process it will use to comply with five requirements for conducting 50 percent of the pre-authority safety audits (PASA) and compliance reviews onsite in Mexico. FMCSA plans to abide by the law, but has not finalized where it will conduct the reviews,” the OIG’s office said. “We also found that FMCSA has not yet addressed certain issues for implementing the pilot program. Specifically, FMCSA has not (1) issued site–specific plans for checking drivers and trucks at the border, (2) established a system to verify driver and truck eligibility for the pilot program, (3) issued an implementation plan nor acquired electronic monitoring devices for use in the pilot program and (4) conducted pilot program training for inspection personnel at the border and within the United States.”

Let me sum up this bureaucratic doublespeak.............

The DOT doesnt have the resources to implement this
The number of Mexican trucks that are non regulation is staggering
The DOT and the White House are already getting Congressional backlash over endless regulation
This is a BIG HOT MESS..do we even have the personnel to check every truck coming across the border for drugs, safety, regulation...etc?

To read the original article CLICK HERE

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Fuel price challenges for carhaulers and truckers...

More money to fill your carhauler…more money to fill your rig.

I am waiting and watching as fuel continues upward against the backdrop of 9.1% inflation. The price of goods is increasing everyday and no one is viewing the fuel situation for what it really is, a crisis and an opportunity. The crisis is that the price of fuel will get so expensive that the average American will struggle to purchase even the most basic of commodities from the grocery store. The opportunity is that it will galvanize the entire American public to pursue a mission of alternate energy programs everywhere to get us out of this boom-bust oil nightmare forever

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The public has spoken about Fuel prices…sort of

I saw a chart on the Wall Street Journal asking the

Public what we should do about the rise of fuel prices.

The answers were pretty cut and dry..either give tax breaks to oil companies or drill offshore. Below are the results

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Oil Finishes Week Over $91 a Barrel

Oil finished the week over $91 a barrel, up more than $3 from last Friday, Bloomberg reported.

Benchmark light sweet crude futures finished the day Friday at $91.54 a barrel, up 14 cents from Thursday on the Mercantile Exchange.

The increased price this week was due in part to U.S. economic data showing stronger factory output and continuing worldwide demand, Bloomberg said,

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Diesel and gasoline have both risen for the past six weeks in the Department of Energy’s weekly price surveys, with diesel topping $3.33 and gasoline near $3.09 per gallon.

DOE’s next survey will be released Tuesday afternoon in Washington due to the federal holiday Monday.
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90% of all truck fleets unranked by CSA

Barely 12 percent of active motor carriers are ranked in any of the five safety categories within the new Safety Measurement System the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made public for the first time on Dec. 12, according to an analysis by Commercial Carrier Journal.

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Intermodal Traffic Gains 13.8% for Week

from Transport Topics
12-13-10

Intermodal traffic rose 13.8% last week from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.

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Traffic for the week ended Saturday totaled 235,835 trailers and containers, led by a 15.3% gain in containers to 197,526 units. Trailers rose 6.5% to 38,309 units.

U.S. railroads originated 303,570 carloads for the week following Thanksgiving — up 6.8% from a year ago, AAR said in its weekly report.

Railroad volume is considered an important economic indicator. Intermodal traffic, which tends to be higher-valued merchandise than bulk commodities, uses trains for the long haul and trucks for the shorter distance at either end of the trip.

This is a letter from Daimler Chrysler concerning the Federal Government's emission program. There are some technical oversights and some unhappy manufacturers. As mentioned before, you can still purchase a brand new pre-emission truck. For more information email msaks@ectts.com.

---------------------------------------------------------- To the Trucking Industry: We had a decade to prepare for 2010 emissions standards and all but one heavy-duty trucking manufacturer invested the time, money and brainpower to develop the best technology to meet stringent new requirements. All but one manufacturer, Navistar, came to the same solution that would best serve you, our trucking industry customers of North America. Although we're competitors, the rest of us understood the importance of the larger cause, and we worked together to do our part to improve air quality for the safety of future generations. How can Navistar claim it's concerned about the environment while its proposed 2010 product spews two and a half times the 2010 NOx standard into the air we breathe every day? Manufacturers, suppliers, government agencies and associations invested time and resources to develop innovations to achieve the emissions goal in spite of economic challenges because we know it's the right thing to do. Navistar is selling thousands of pre-2010 engines, while the rest of the industry is selling EPA 2010-certified products. Navistar apparently has no EPA-compliant emissions technology for 2010 and beyond, at least nothing that does not use credits to achieve compliance. Don't trucking industry customers of North America deserve better? We believe you do. And, as an industry that prides itself on professionalism, integrity and honesty, we have every reason to demand the same of Navistar. Learn more about SCR and watch real customers discuss the benefits of this technology, or see our full-page ad in the August 9th edition of Transport Topics for our complete statement on this issue. Respectfully, Daimler Trucks North America LLC ------------------------------------------ ----------------

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Thank you for coming to your senses...

From Transport Topics

August 3rd, 2010

LaHood Rules Out Fuel Tax Increase

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood rejected raising fuel taxes to pay for highway improvements and said that, despite pessimism about the prospects for a long-term highway bill, the administration was focused on completing a bill this year.

LaHood, speaking at an American Road & Transportation Builders Association public-private partnerships conference Friday, explicitly ruled out raising fuel taxes or a vehicle miles traveled fee as a way to pay for a new federal highway program

LaHood said there was “no dispute in Washington ... about what needs to be done” in a new transportation bill, but “there’s only one problem: trying to find $500 billion; that’s what it takes to do all the things that we want to do.”
However, he repeatedly ruled out an increase in the fuel tax, saying finally that “raising the gas tax is not an option.”
He also told the group that there was no support for a vehicle miles traveled fee.
LaHood said that approaches such as public-private partnerships, an infrastructure fund and tolling could be used to make up the needed revenue for a bill.

Transportation leaders in recent weeks have begun to speculate that the bill may languish past the end of the year when the most recent extension expires.

LaHood dismissed those concerns and said the Department of Transportation was still focused on wrapping up the bill before the end of the year.

“We’re a long way away from that,” he said at the July 23 conference. “We’re not even in August yet — we’re in July — and this extension goes through December, and so we’ll just see how things play out.”

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Light & Medium Truck | Navistar Says SCR Systems Can Be Defeated

Navistar Says SCR Systems Can Be Defeated

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Navistar Inc. recently attacked competitors’ 2010 selective catalytic control engines on two fronts, telling environmental regulators that pollution controls on the engines could be easily defeated, and telling fleet managers that every gallon of diesel fuel an SCR engine saves will come at the cost of at least that much diesel exhaust fluid consumed.

At a joint state-federal workshop in California this month, truck and engine maker Navistar presented a 15-minute video that purported to show drivers of SCR-equipped trucks flouting 2010 emissions regulations by operating heavy- and medium-duty SCR trucks for thousands of miles using water instead of diesel exhaust fluid.

Engines with SCR are intended to “de-rate,” or lose power, if their tanks holding the urea-water solution known as DEF are empty. Navistar said that substituting plain water for DEF tricked the tank’s sensors.

“Truck owners are paying a substantial price to comply with 2010 NOx requirements. They and the public deserve to know that the new equipment they are purchasing actually works as promised,” said Jack Allen, president of Navistar’s North American truck group.

Volvo Group and Cummins Inc., both of which sell SCR engines, participated in the July 20 workshop and said their trucks and engines, which have passed 2010 federal and California emission certification, function properly.

In response to the video, Daimler Trucks North America stated its “emissions systems operate as designed, meeting federal and state air-quality standards that reduce particulate matter and nitrogen oxides to near-zero levels without the use of credits.

The workshop on SCR compliance was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board. Navistar asked for the hearing as part of a legal settlement with EPA and CARB when the company objected to regulatory procedures concerning SCR.

Light & Medium Truck | Navistar Says SCR Systems Can Be Defeated

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