‘Strain On The Supply Chain’: Truckers
Are Livid Over Texas Gov. Abbott’s Border
Security Measures
Daily Caller,
by
Jennie Taer
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/13/2022 12:19:29 PM
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security measures ahead of Title 42’s end have created an hours-long standstill for truckers crossing the border, and trucking leaders in the state are warning that it could further disrupt the national supply chain.“It’s a mess … that’s most immediately felt by the motor carriers that are trying to get freight to its destination. But, ultimately, that’ll be felt around the country. From Michigan to Manhattan to Minnesota, it’s just the way it works with freight coming up through the border,” CEO and President of the Texas Trucking Association John D. Esparza told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/13/2022 12:25:18 PM (No. 1127583)
This sounds like Fake News. Would a real Texan care to comment on this?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 12:29:52 PM (No. 1127593)
Discipline yourselves, guys. When some among you pick up a little cartel cash by filling up their trailers with illegals, you all suffer. Our country suffers a lot worse.
Re #1, are these Texas truckers talking or are they from other parts of the country and happen to be bringing stuff back and forth across the border to and from points south?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 12:34:07 PM (No. 1127601)
Here’s the company whose rep was kicking loudly to the Daily Caller. Warren Transport = operates out of Iowa with owner-drivers.
https://warrentransport.com
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 12:40:46 PM (No. 1127607)
Why some drivers for Warren Transport would be open to picking up illegals for extra money: Drivers have their own trucks or lease from Warren Transport. From Facebook last year:
Started out making decent money, averaged $1,800 a week after truck payment and expenses, then I got assigned to a real idiot of a dispatcher. After being reassigned, my profits went from $1,800 plus a week to $250 a week. Never turned down loads, but the idiot would not even start looking for me another load until I was empty. I begged to get off the idiots board, but only got deaf ears. No one took me seriously, until I cleaned my truck out in Waterloo and left to go to work for a much better company. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. If it works for you, great, but $250 a week don’t pay my bills.
https://www.facebook.com/WarrenTransportInc/reviews/
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 4/13/2022 12:40:53 PM (No. 1127608)
Who's it gonna hurt more, folks on the U.S. side not able to buy avocados, or avocado growers on the Mexican side not being able to get them to market? Multiply that times everything coming across the border and you'll see that it behooves Mexico to get their guacamole in order and police their own border. Maybe Abbott's done a good thing with this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/13/2022 12:49:01 PM (No. 1127620)
Seems to me good executive would factor supply lines into profitability. So if GM and Ford had stayed on this side of the border there would not be a big deal, right?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 12:49:57 PM (No. 1127623)
The other named “squeaky wheel” is a company rounded in Mexico. It now transports across the United States and Canada:
Super Transport International, LTD. (STI) was founded in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in 1989, and rapidly grew to position itself as a leader in the international transportation industry. By securing and constantly training accomplished personnel, investing in technology and continually upgrading our fleet, we ate able to deliver the highest customer service to our clients, guaranteed!
https://www.sti-laredo.com
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 12:51:36 PM (No. 1127625)
Re #6, a company FOUNDED in Mexico.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/13/2022 12:59:11 PM (No. 1127632)
Strain on the Fentanyl supply chain.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2022 1:20:53 PM (No. 1127649)
I don't believe it. And, if true, it is a GOOD THING. This country should make it more difficult to have a factory outside the country and ship in goods. That is a PLUS.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2022 1:45:48 PM (No. 1127672)
FTA:
DPS has found 11,566 violations as of Sunday, inspecting 3,443 commercial vehicles, 807 of which were put out of service due to “serious safety violations” that include defective brakes, tires and lighting, it told the DCNF, adding that 79 commercial drivers were taken out of service.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2022 2:11:24 PM (No. 1127716)
RE #11, this movement of unsafe trucks and unsafe drivers into the country was always my biggest worry in this push to let Mexican trucks and drivers in the USA.
The multiple deaths from a Mexican driver who didn't choose to use the provided runaway truck lanes, and continued downhill out of control until he plowed into stopped traffic was a perfect example of what I figured would be happening.
And now we see hundreds of defective, unsafe trucks being stopped at the border. This is a GOOD thing.
And I'll bet that a lot of them are carrying illegal drugs in hidden compartments.
Closing the border with Mexico ENTIRELY would be a plus.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/13/2022 3:17:22 PM (No. 1127758)
They are mad at the wrong person / people. Be mad at Joe Biden and his useless Director of Homeland Security. If they would actually enforce border security and immigration laws, Governor Abbott might not need to take these measures.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 4/14/2022 4:38:03 AM (No. 1128076)
Don't worry, we can live without our treadmills, right Jen?
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