[PackRatTDI]

Originally Posted by ssoutlaw

Couldn't tell from the picture, but they could be blocked up higher on the outside so as not to slip to the outside of the trailer. I do this with lumber a lot!!

That's the typical design for beverage trailers/trucks. The floor slopes toward the inside. That way the pallets won't shift and the product won't fall out. Here in the US the trucks/trailers are typically enclosed with locking bay doors. Typical beverage trucks that are enclosed will have a "box" shape anyways though some models, like the one I drove for Pepsi, have the same trapezoid shape but with locking bay doors.

[eplurubus]

If you hadn't said that you took these pictures in Mexico, I would have guessed they were taken in Miami or L.A. These trucks look every bit like the trucks I have seen in those two cities; they may even look a little bit better. :shock:

[Jackrabbit379]

Originally Posted by GMAN

Those trucks look pretty good compared to some I have seen. :P

That aint no lie.

[yellowcabbill]

When I first saw the pictures I thought the trucks were from Singh Brothers Trucking serving the Oakland Port.

[autohauler06]

[bsd]

What a good reply put a picture of an England truck. Enough said.,

[Maniac]

Actually most of the older American trucks are there, where do you think they all went?

Still see a lot of old Schneider, JB Hunt cabovers there.

[marcel27208]

The trucks that you guys see in laredo, el paso, otay mesa/san diego are NOT the trucks that you will/may see running freight in the US. Why would anyone get a top of the line truck to shuttle trailers 20-30 miles a day as they do in those places!!!! The mexican drivers just like the american drivers have top of the line trucks also, ive seen them ive been in the lower part of mexico they have nice freightliners, kenworths, volvos, peterbuilts just as we do. Chrome, spinners, you name it they have it just as americans do. So why continue to bash the mexican drivers for lack of opportunity,as most people on here do???

[geomon]

The point is not to bash Mexican drivers at all but to bash the system that will allow two VERY different wage scale markets free access to each other. The low scale market will win every time. I hold nothing against a Mexican driver and I'm sure they are just as hard working as we are here in our own country and if I were a Mexican driver I would probably be looking at this as an opportunity as well.

But due to the difference in wage scales, it won't be a free market because if you are shipping a product into Mexico, who would want to pay a US driver to drive deep into Mexico at US wages when a transfer to a Mexican truck would save money. The exact opposite would hold true in the US....why transfer at all when the foriegn driver (Mexican) can drive more miles at the cheaper rate.

Saving money will ALWAYS be the driving force for a company (large or small). The point is that the US government should not facilitate allowing foriegn nationals free access to US soil unless they are paid at US wage scales.

OK I'll get down off my soapbox and kick it back under the desk now.

[allan5oh]

Geomon, what you described is EXACTLY a free market. Government regulation and interference would be the opposite of a "free market". They get paid less probably because their cost of living is much lower. I don't see where the big problem is as long as they do not touch your domestic freight.

What do you feel about Canadians coming over the line? I do it more often then not. Of course, I do not touch your domestic freight.