As above. Is it a done thing, do Yanky firms run into Mexico? Never read any stories (granted I haven’t looked very hard!) but surely they must do or is it a case of everything goes by rail or took over by Mexican drivers for a cheaper rate.
I think you can only run to the border and it has to be transhipped.
I done a few trips to hildago which is on the border in Texas not the kind of area you want tohang about in.
Wire on here gets down that way alot he will know the ins and outs.
Been as far as El Paso and switched once, have no desire to become a target for drug smuggling gangs, I got pelted with stones from the other side of the river one that occasion, only kids but it wasn’t a welcoming sign LOL
Wire has a story to tell about going into Mexico.
I’ve only done tranships at the border, but there is a driver only service at Laredo if you want to go over for a beer, etc.
Been down to Laredo with reefers. These days I believe most stuff is transshipped at or near the border on to Mexican trucks who are allowed just inside the US for this purpose. I think many of the larger companies send the whole trailer across on a Mexican truck. I’ve heard that Canadian firms did used to run in to Mexico years ago (SGT from Quebec being one example) but these days the dangers of crossing the border make insurance an impossibility.
I ran Laredo, but never went over the border.
As Robin said … SGT run Mexico,USA and Canada but even then I think they drop the trailers at the border down there.
Pat Hasler:
As Robin said … SGT run Mexico,USA and Canada but even then I think they drop the trailers at the border down there.
I know they do these days. I’ve been told that they did used to cross the border and purchase permits to go further inland but those days are over due to the dangers and subsequent impossibility of insurance.
Pat Hasler:
Been as far as El Paso and switched once, have no desire to become a target for drug smuggling gangs, I got pelted with stones from the other side of the river one that occasion, only kids but it wasn’t a welcoming sign LOL
nice to see you make friends everywhere you go pat lol
Did one down to Laredo TX drop off a loaded reefer at a brokers and pick up an empty and down to El Paso TX a couple times into the customs compound there where they supervise the load being transhipped onto a mexican trl
I was on for Santini Bros out to Chicago in the early 90’s and was told that they used to do a few Mexico back in the 70’s and 80’s. Usually late winter salad and early strawberries coming north.
I was talking to the boss one day and telling him about TIR and how we could go through various borders with out much hassle, which was his main sticking point. All their trucks had to be fully turned out at the border,going both ways, cabs and trailers, a bit like coming back from Morocco if any one did that. The Mexicans could vastly undercut the rate for hauling in Mexico, insurance was ridiculously high, so in the end it just wasn’t worth it for them, and reverted to load transfers at the border.
From a drivers point of view I would loved to have tried it.
Jeff
Jelliot:
From a drivers point of view I would loved to have tried it.
Part of me would love to as well. Its just too dangerous these days though, with all the murdering, kidnapping and the like that goes on.
I was on for Santini Bros out to Chicago in the early 90’s and was told that they used to do a few to Mexico back in the 70’s and 80’s. Usually late winter salad and early strawberries coming north.
I was talking to the boss one day and telling him about TIR and how we could go through various European borders with out much hassle, which was his main sticking point. All their trucks had to be fully turned out at the border,going both ways, cabs and trailers, a bit like coming back from Morocco if any one did that.
The Mexicans could vastly undercut the rate for hauling in Mexico, insurance was ridiculously high, so in the end it just wasn’t worth it for them, and reverted to load transfers at the border.
From a drivers point of view I would loved to have tried it.
I met a guy in TX one day that was driving a millipede for export, 4, 2nd hand Kenworths. Don’t know if they still do it, truck 2,3, and 4 have the front wheels removed and the axle sits on the 5th wheel.
He said he used to drive it to Tampico, and fly back from there, he reckoned he did 9 or 10 a year. I used to see similar things in So Cal as well
Jeff
These days its millipedes of brand new trucks coming from Mexican factories heading north to the US and Canada. I dont actually know if they leave Mexico in that fashion but thats certainly how they leave Texas, bound for Canada.
robinhood_1984:
These days its millipedes of brand new trucks coming from Mexican factories heading north to the US and Canada. I dont actually know if they leave Mexico in that fashion but thats certainly how they leave Texas, bound for Canada.
Whats built iin Mexico should stay in Mexico lol my old freightshaker isnt a patch on my Pete
I quite like Cascadia’s. I think they’re great inside and for a fleet motor, they’re good. Certainly put together a lot better than International Prostars etc. They’re never going to have the build quality of a Pete though. I’m currently driving a 2005 KW T600 Anteater. Its a hideous looking thing but the build quality is really quite good and it feels tighter and better put together than any freightliner, its just not very good to live inside when you’re down the road.
for a fleet truck youre right there and big plus of the amount of space you could have a party in there and I would say my old International Eagle was a better quality then the cascadia any day but I suppose you get good models and you get bad ones same as anything