CANCUN, Mexico — If recent comments in an online Mexican magazine are anything to go by, Mexicans would sooner their drivers skip right over the 49 American States directly above them and haul directly into Canada.

According to Yucatan Living magazine, Alberta is Mexican-friendly while the Americans are still steaming about The Alamo. First, here’s what the YL has to say about Alberta:

“Look at what [Canadians] have to say about the Mexicans who have chosen to go there: ‘…many legal Mexicans now living in Alberta under temporary worker programs seem to be doing rather well…One suspects all the money in the oilsands won’t be able to make a Tapatio from Guadalajara or a Meridano hailing from the Yucatan warm up to a northern Alberta winter.”

“Yucatan Living is so pleased to see a voice of reason in a sea of delusion about immigrants. Our heartfelt thanks to Canada for this forward-looking, positive attitude.”

From Cancun to Calgary? Mexicans say Alberta
offers Mexican workers more than the U.S.

Then, in the same issue, a comment on NAFTA trucking. The story is called “Trucking Program in Jeopardy.”

“Last September, Yucatan Living reported that 100 Mexican trucks were headed onto U.S. highways and would be traveling as far away as the east coast. That has not materialized due to opposition from American workers unions….Mexican trucks have crossed the border into the U.S. 322 times and U.S. trucks have crossed into Mexico 683 times.”

As Today’s Trucking readers know, the controversial Mexican truck pilot program is in jeopardy as special interest groups and safety advocates urge Congress to enforce a bill it passed recently, which cuts off funding for the yearlong program allowing pre-selected Mexican carriers to haul beyond the 22 mile commercial restriction zone at the Mexican-Us border.

Protectionist forces also claim that American carriers are likely to eventually want to replace American truckers with less expensive Mexican truckers, leaving American truckers jobless.

“Those of us who live here know that such is not the case …For Mexican truck drivers wanting jobs in the U.S., we seriously doubt that because their socio-economic position in Mexico is higher in Mexico than is the socio-economic position of their American counterparts in the U.S. We hope this issue is resolved soon and that it does not result in quite legal but understandably retaliatory tariffs by Mexico.”

Umm, so that’s why thousands of Mexicans trek north across the desert every single day — and traffic moves only one way?