Mexican trucking is pretty interesting. Unfortunately, there is a substance problem for the truckers in Mexico to get from point A to B in one sitting. Another note is that Mexican driving is a bit different and aggressive compared to the states. For example, in a one way road, drivers are going to make it to two. The carretera Saltillo to Monterrey is a famous dangerous road that uses that as well as Durango-Mazatlan. My respects for the truckers and people that deliver goods in Mexico and around the world.
In some regards I like Mexican passing when its done right. Like in Durango when people will open up the middle of the road signal at eachother and let people take turns passing up the middle both ways in a very orderly agreed on fashion. The shoulder is even painted with broken likes instead of solid ones marking this out as acceptable behaviour in the eyes of the local highways dept. It's better than the BC passing style which is to have to accelerate to 160 kamikaze dive into the oncoming lane and pull back in before you hit the oncoming vehicle.
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It's also worth pointing out that many trucks sold in the USA are built in Mexico. I live on the Border and see new Freightliners and Internationals going north all the time. The same can be said for trailers. Utility is one brand that builds a lot in Mexico for USA sale.
Back in the 2000's Ford and Navistar had an agreement that was called the Blue Diamond agreement, essentially allowing for Ford and Navistar's truck brands to be consolidated and assembled side by side under the same roof in Monterey.
I see the caravans of chassis truck beds moving from one factory to another while passing through Monterrey. It's beautiful scenery because of the mountains.
@@joea1018 I studied Spanish in Monterrey years ago. There's not another major city on this continent in a more spectacular natural setting than Monterrey.
hey man just wanted to drop by and say that i love your channel, I'm a big ETS fan and respect truckers all around the world, checked out your Midtown Madness 3 video and loved the way you've made it
Nice video My dad used to work with truckers, he was the "Drivers Manager" in charge of giving truckers their route, expenses and paychecks. Most truckers work for a company, since trucks are expensive and the majority of drivers are from low income families (often living in the outer most part of cities), working solo is uncommon and taking huge amounts of coffee and anti-sleeping pills is a must. Kenworth (Kenmex) is the most liked brand due to the low cost of repairs and parts (It's made in the country, so there's no need to import hardly anything), but I've seen every brand named except Western Star. The regulations are mostly ignored since almost every cop can be bribed, same with the speed limits, and despite what most people might think, the cartels aren't dangerous if you leave them alone. Said this, I'm no expert on the topic, I'm talking based on what I've seen.
There are robberies on occasion, I personally know someone who was stopped by pickup trucks and beaten and load was taken via gunpoint. It's also interesting the many different types of trucks I have seen, I have even seen a almost pristine 60s ford dump truck hard at work lol. Thanks for the comment it was very interesting
@@davidnunez8561the robberies mostly depend on the load, they mainly rob trucks carrying goods like fruit or vegetables n stuff like that, but the reality is that anyone can be robbed, especially at the arco Norte (north arc) at Mexico City, it’s the most dangerous highway rn with the highest rate of robberies in Mexico. And talking abt old trucks, truckers absolutely love old Ford and Chevy trucks over here, in my hometown there’s an old 60’s Ford COE dump truck that’s still working, and I’ve seen even older trucks in the highway. Where you can see them more often is in rural areas, over there people love old trucks for their simplicity and ease to repair them, it’s very common to see 70’s and 80’s trucks with Cummins Big Cam engines that have probably a billion miles on them.
“They’re not dangerous if you leave them alone” LOL my aunt was riding a bus to the US which was pulled over by cartel guys like 10km from the border. They got on, waved their guns around, and demanded $200usd from every passenger. Of course the police were on the other side of the road acting like they didn’t see anything Who knows what would’ve happened if they didn’t have the money
As both a Mexican citizen and an individual fascinated with the world of trucks and trucking, this video is an absolutely fascinating watch! Thanks for sharing your trucking wisdom with the rest of us!!
@yukon You should do a follow up video showing the dark side of the trucking industry in Mexico. As it can range from outright comical to pure evil and depravity. My main source for what I know comes from my dad. He owned and operated a trucking business in Mexico for 20 years and had over 700 trucks at its peak. And his biggest headache was the countless methods, hustles, tricks, scams, or any of the countless unethical or outright criminal activities to supplement their legitimate income from salary and bonuses. From minor infractions such as taking on passengers and charging fares. Selling off the premium diesel gasoline and refilling the tanks with low grade clandestine diesel gas. Selling new tires and replacing them with cheap refurbished ones. On the darker end of the spectrum, they would make deals with cartels to load drug shipments and mix them into the legitimate merchandise, sell drugs along their routes, and the most despicable crime in my opinion, participate enable and benefit from the human trafficking trade, transporting the victims for the cartels, and very likely abusing them along the length of the route among many more unspeakable acts against humanity. No matter how hard my dad tried to root out any driver or employee who was part of it. It always resurfaced, until finally the final reason my dad needed to sell and get out of the business. When the cartel directly approached him, making the classic offer of “Plata o Plomo?” This is by no means a representation of Mexican truckers as a whole. This is a small minority of people who use the infrastructure and services built for honest hardworking drivers, this small percentage of criminal drivers who took the easy way, usually drive themselves into an early grave. The open road is not considered safe in many parts of Mexico and truckers brave through the danger, the threats, the attacks, on top of the standard driver problems that occur more often than anyone would like to admit.
A few days ago on a trip in Ohio I was able to catch up with a Mexican trucker who had come all the way from Nuevo Leon. I love Mexican trucks and if there's any country I would visit for their trucks, it would be Mexico. The variety of trucks in Mexico is a lot greater than here in the US, and the lax emissions laws make for some awesome spotting out on their highways. Aside from American brands, there's a few European truck brands that you'll find in Mexico, most notably Volvo, Scania, Mercedes, Fiat, Kamaz, and Pegaso. Some other American brands that you'll see in Mexico are Marmon, Bering, White, Hendrickson and Autocar. The Japanese and Chinese also have quite the market share down there as well. Mexico also had a lot of truck manufacturers in the 70's and 80's, the two largest being Kenmex and Dina, which are still around. A lot of other brands were smaller, essentially "mom & pop" operations where the trucks were made in garages or small factories. These brands included Atlas, Pena, Mago, Famsa, Azteca, Ramirez, Zamrripa, Vipsa, and Tractocasa. Many of these trucks from the smaller Mexican brands were built using knockoff versions of Autocar or Kenworth cabs, sometimes paired with hoods or bodies from other manufacturers, but nearly all of them went out of business in the 90's due to NAFTA. It's a weird world south of the border. On another note, human and drug trafficking are sadly somewhat common in cross border trucking, as a small minority of both American and Mexican drivers work for the cartels. The cartels also have their own fleets of trucks that they use for drug smuggling. I hope that in time things will get better for our brothers and sisters in Mexico.
Lacks admissions, if that was so they would not allow them to enter the U.S. also there Truck are inspected so they have to be road citified, long hull Mexican truckers have a better long haul safety record then American truckers in the U.S. And these Mexican drivers and trucks have had better driver and vehicle safety records than their U.S. counterparts in recent years, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation - although opponents say many violations never get recorded because of sloppy government record-keeping. here comes the B.S. (google it) “We are the same as they are. They think that we drink beer, use drugs and drive without sleeping, but this is not true,” said Luis Gonzalez, a trucker based in Monterrey, Mexico, between long-haul trips north of the border.
@@gregoriosalazar1418 well it would be interesting to know, since a lot of Chicanos do tend to have familial ties in Mexico so who knows how many get involved that way
I rode the bus throughout large parts of Mexico in the 80's. Mexican truckers have higher standards of driving from what I saw. I was on highway 54 from Nuevo Laredo to Guadalajara a lot & also the Pacific Coast highway from Nayarit to lower Michoacan. The drivers are helpful in letting people pass. I later became a trucker myself. Most American truckers it's every driver for himself. But Mexican truckers are still knights of the highways. There's always a few driving like bats outta hell but generally they are very good drivers because they have to be to survive.
I’ve always said that Mexican transportation by bus and its network is more advanced/sophisticated than in the US. This is due to it being the main way ppl get around throughout Mexico instead of an ✈️ flight.
Hell yeah mexican trucking representando, i used to work in road maintenance in the state of guanajuato, worst job i ever had but it was very fun and got me interested in trucking and logistics, i actually found this chanel while giving maintenance to a toll boot in southern Guanajuato.
Great video as always, I was would like to see a video about singapore because when i went there I was surprised to see how nicely maintained their roads were.
You doing good man? Update: As of around a month ago. Yukon is alive. He posted a message on his discord server a while back ( although it didn't mention the break )
$80,000 pesos a month is very good money in Mexico, that’s 10x more than minimum wage there. It’s also extremely dangerous, a plaza leader got arrested in my state and then his goons took out their anger on innocent truckers. They pulled them over and burned their trucks, in some cases even executed them. This happened in Zacatecas a few months ago.
@mph they’re basically the opposite of public servants, but i wouldn’t be surprised if cartels build and maintain roads when it makes business sense-i’ve heard stories of them doing the same with cell networks
@@winterwatson6811 Yeah it’s a wild scenario when you think about it. And the govt looks the other way because they do jobs that would otherwise would never get done. Moral thicket..but can you blame the govt for accepting free money?
@@winterwatson6811cartels are not entirely bad. The problem is the substances they are controlling the supply of and the laws around those substances. When the US had a lot of organized crime, there was substantially less crime against lower classes of society and the infrastructure was maintained and upgraded to serve the interests of the crime bosses. Everyone benefited. The system worked until the US population and government increased enough to remove and replace the organized crime. Mexico would do good to give the cartels control of a more productive part of the economy than drugs. I'm just not sure that there is anything in Mexico more productive and profitable than supplying drugs to the US. Both countries would have been better served to have the border further north so the border region could be productive for both sides. The US got greedy and the entire continent will suffer forever.
So the opposite of what you get up here. Although people working in the office side of the business are absolutely terrible in most large businessman here. Small business gigs tend to be very efficient.
2:49 that salary is way too high to be a trucker's monthly salary, I'm from Mexico and I can tell you that a trucker would make probably half or even lower than that amount Edit: I heard forward that it is yearly, it is definitely low as you say.
Thanks for the videos man, they are high quality, informative and fun to watch. It was a good run, but I suppose you got other stuff you want to do. Have a good one. Your channel will be remembered.
A family friend of ours who was a trucker in Mexico was killed years ago by thieves for refusing to be a victim RIP Juan you didn’t deserve to go out like that :(
It’s home to 126 million Mexicans, not including the other 40 million in the USA, & the other millions around the world. Like my parents have always said “In this world, there’s always room for hard working people!” En este mundo, siempre se ocupa gente trabajadora.🇲🇽
Nice overview. BTW Kenworth is the most loved. Peterbuilt is not sold here but many have been imported used. Western Star has no presence (virtually unknown) and Mack’s market share is very small, almost nil. Freightliner is popular with fleets, same with Navistar. Volvo stopped selling trucks in 2021 and are back this year after Mack’s epic failure. BTW interestingly European COEs like MAN, Scania and DAF are present and now Scania is 4th place in market share overall. Lots of used rigs from the US are imported and some of them rebuilt on a Mexican frame, these are specially popular with owner drivers, farm trucks and general cargo.
I sell used trucks in Mexico and as long as it has a Cummins engine, standard trans it sells. From my experience the most sought after semis are Kenworth then Peterbilt, then Volvo then international. Other engines sell as well just no one wants a Navistar.
@@jneuf861 because your market target are owner drivers. Peterbuilts are liked by them but since PACCAR does not sell them new n the country, all have to be imported used . The most important market segments are fleet sales and here it is where Navistar shines. BTW, I’m not saying that Peterbuilts are not seen here but they aren’t available new and they are usually owned as farm trucks, utility/specialty or owner drivers and small operators. I like Peterbuilts but I don’t usually buy or operate used trucks from the States due to differential ratios and their unsuitability for mountain roads. BTW, I’m not a fan of Navistar or their Maxxforces. I operate with Scanias which are more expensive to maintain but amazingly thrifty on fuel and really suited for our roads. I’m still a very small operator with only two rigs but I did a lot of research before.
@@flugjung good info, thanks. Also a big thing here is parts and service. I also sell construction equipment. They Just want CAT because of the great parts and dealer network.
Peterbilt trucks are not sold in Mexico, so is incorrect to say Peterbilt is one of the most popular brands. Although you may see a few (mostly older imported models or american trucks), they are very rare to spot in Mexico.
Not exactly what you have been doing (love this series btw) but how about a trucking type video, maybe logging which admittedly I know nothing about, but the vehicles and physics are fascinating.
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Of course I come from this country but I'd like to see your perspective on Chilean trucking, since we have such an odd landscape we have way too many diferent terrains to work with, I started recently working a Truck driver but here we have 2 diferent licences for truck driving, one for non articulated trucks and one for trailers, maybe this will also kinda help the motivation for the next video (?
In Mexico we have a lot of american trucks but recently we re having more choices of commercial vehicles,with the entrance of MAN,Scania and in a Future DAF trucks,mercedes benz and another marks like Mitsubishi Fuso(but in México its known as Freightliner 360,formerly Sterling 360) Hino,Isuzu and another marks(even Chinese like Shacman,that have a factory agreement with DINA(Diesel Nacional) a lot of trucks got Manual Transmissions because of the cheaper manteinance costs but the proffesional major grades are obtaining trucks with automated gearboxes,in fact we re a combination of American and European Trucks.
