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.
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
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
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!!
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.
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 )
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
there used to be lots of neat little local truck producers in Mexico but sadly most died out Pena, Tractocaza, MAGO, Zamarripa, Ramirez, VIPSA, DINA, list really just goes on forever and a lot of them were made to look like Kenworths visually, but often used lots of parts from various companies like Autocar, White, and in some cases PACCAR (Kenworth/Peterbilt) great vid as always!
i was gonna say a video about spanish trucking would be interesting since this year megatrucks with two trailers were made legal and we've been using b-doubles, doubles consisting on one long semi trailer and one short trailer and long semitrailers attached to rigid trucks, not to mention the new rolling highway shuttle by rail from Valencia to Madrid idk if you still plan to make more trucking world episodes, but in any case i'm gonna drop the idea here
Thank you buddy, these are extremely interesting. I've also enjoyed your MM3 video, I never had an xbox, so I played only an MM2, it was wasily moddable, and there were plenty of mods available at the time. Gosh, my best childhood memories. Thank you for your videos.
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.
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.🇲🇽
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.
I have a memory while traveling to Sinaloa from Zacatecas in the Durango-Mazatlan highway and right before reaching Puente Baluarte the trailers would pass downhill with Jake brakes going all out super loud with their open loud exhausts it looked super badass watching the cabs decorated with men and their families and double 53 footers stuff over there is crazy work!!!
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 (?
There’s a lot of interesting facts about Mexican trucking. Like the fact they use massive tandem trailers. They drive differently too. On shouldered 2-lane highways trucks drive continuously with most of their vehicle on the shoulder with their hazards on to create a middle “lane” for cars to pass in either direction. On-coming traffic is expected to drive onto the shoulder as well if necessary for passing cars to cut through the middle unimpeded.
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 :(
In the Mexico mostly truck had delete and straight pipe…. And mostly custom trucks I have some family numbers live down Mexico. Every time I visit to my family number one house the next to the highway you can hear a lot of jake break from kenmix and Cummins….and the one rare is my favorite is one truck KM w9 flattop sleeper and very shiny navy blue and 6 or 7 inch pipe drive by. Let’s go trucking
As truck driver in the United state I would hate driving in Mexico City. From my memory in 2013 their traffic is the craziest I’ve seen. People not using turn signals, forcing their way in front of you, (which is the only way to cross lanes). What surprised me the most was how little people were honking during the madness.
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.
Just got recommended this and realized that you had been gone for quite a while. I would love to see more videos, especially one about my home country Sweden. While some may think it's similar to Finland it's really not, mainly because most of the population is located in the south. There's also water between Sweden and the rest of Europe requiring truckers to either take one of several ferries or the Öresund bridge. These ferries may have lounges, free food and showers exclusively for truckers to attract truckers to take one route over another. Some of the longer ones even have trucker cabins so they can get their sleep while the truck is moving.
You should do a video on Chilean trucking, we've been a truck brand melting pot since the 50-60's, nowadays you mostly see American, German, Brazilian and Chinese semis, with Japan and Korea dominating all the smaller markets, + all sorts of oddities in the 80s and 90s, like Samsung, Tata, or DongFeng trucks. The trucking industry is decently paid [esp compared to the rest of Latin America] hell, both from the general world to truckers (Indigenous conflicts in the south were crazy about burning logger trailer trucks up until recently) and from truckers to everyone else the treatment becomes worse (as they pretty much have a monopoly on transport, they may stop highways and "protest" with hookers any rail expansion attempts, plus the 1972 trucker crisis). Most highways are sparkly clean but it comes at high toll costs, and spiking up one's nose to do higher work hours while not utterly common, its still a known secret.
I travel through Mexico a lot, the trucks back up traffic horrendously, but I don’t blame the drivers, the top speed on most highways is 60km/hr. Which is very slow compared to US
Nice video! is there a lot of Mexican truck traffic driving into Mexico's southern neighbors, Belize and Guatemala? Is it possible to drive over Mexican roads from the US into Belize and/or Guatemala?
I also love mexican trucking, especially when I pull up to grab an empty and the entire lot has had the glad hand seals stolen. No idea why they do it, I even asked a mexican driver. He said he's also got no idea. This isn't a slight, or a jab at them or anything. It's so commonplace that it hurts my brain to even think about. Why would you want a bunch of old dry rotted seals?
More interesting facts…… Mexican trucks haul well over 120 tons(sometimes more) A lot of drivers have to use pericos (Rx amphetamines) or other uppers because they often drive for 3days nonstop.
I dunno about trucks or whatever. But I've heard there's been lots of truck drivers getting mugged/kidnaped recently by the drug cartels and stuff. Plus they have to go to desolate places and stay at shady hotels so they must be in constant danger I assume. Some real daredevils, these people. Heck even being a bus driver is dangerous when you're in Mexico, I can't even imagine how truck drivers have it.
My uncle that lives in Mexico is actually a Semi truck driver there and whenever im there he usually isn't there I only saw him twice one time when I stayed at my Tia's home I remember one time he told me a story about how he was stopped by the cartel near the US border because they wanted to steal his load he had a reefer they had guns and stuff so he obviously agreed because he didn't wanna die he told me he was driving a International LT also you forgot to mention that european cabover semi trucks are also used quite frequently for trucking on the expressways of Mexico since they are seen as more comfortable on those types of roads I have seen MAN semis and Scania trucks aswell.
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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.
Yup, they'll make it two and not move out of the way for oncoming traffic. It's a me-first type of way of thinking.
That can really mess yall economy up. Y’all need to focus on expanding and widening yall roads. That will allow more freight in your country
Oh yeah. I've known a few that would do perico. That's coke for those unfamiliar.
@@robnduhcutState/city officials will just pocket any money sent for infrastructure.
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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Babe wake up new video just blah blah blah...
Babe no one can hear you so please stop screaming and watch this video with me
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How are you supposed to wake him now that Yukon hasn’t uploaded in a year?
Any update? "I am still alive" would suffice.
As of a month ago he made a post on his discord ( although it was a generic message and had nothing to do with the hiatus )
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 work at at international dealership this is true !, however there factory Just burned down recently
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.
@MikeV8652 I agree. I've always passed Monterrey while driving south to Morelia. Next time, I plan to stay and sightsee for several days.
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
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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
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!!
The trucking series was always pretty interesting. Hope to see you return, eventually.
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.
You are the only blue crustacean i know that makes trucking so interesting, thank you
"Mexican Trucking Isn't What You Think" I never thought about Mexican trucking until I saw this video title.
yep, Mexicans truckers use trucks to drive and transport the load. Mexicans are weird
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 )
what about now? 🥺
@@steriftes no idea
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@@soumitrab5283 no
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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.
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5.3 million Americans moved to live to Mexico in the last 5 years.
@@csaracho2009Does it make an effort to find how many of those are Chicanos?
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.
@@cristeromexico3366that dont care, they are unitedstatians anyway.
@@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 wonder if Peterbilt in Mexico is called "Hecho por Pedro"?
Peterbilt no se vende de manera oficial en México
"Petra" is the nickname for the Petes here in Mexico
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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.
We need more trucking facts 😔
To be honest I didn't think anything about Mexican trucking, but I'll watch the video anyway, because it seems like an interesting part of the world.
@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.
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.
Would you be interested in making similar videos on the railroads of countries?
I had no idea there were so many unpaved roads in Mexico.
Conversely, I had no idea there were so many paved roads in cartel country
@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?
It's a third world craphole. Are you kidding
@@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.
Miss him.
Same
i wonder what happened to him?.
@@TheDeerTonic soon. I promise, and believe me, I know.
With all the unpaved territory I’m surprised Western Star isn’t more popular
Cost
Can’t wait for the next video, gonna be massive, I can feel it
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.
$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.
It's per year...
@@chibinya oh man… nvm lmao
When we talk about income in Mexico we usually go by how much we make a month.
I work in logistics and Mexican truckers are some of the best truckers you can get always respectful and kind.
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.
It's been 4 months...
more than that now...
Where did you go bud? Doing alright?
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.
I'm not sure about the other European brands, but Scania does have a presence in Mexico, besides all the NA trucks.
lots of fleets are buying them too, such as Bimbo, TMS, UNNE, Pilot to name a few
We have Mercedes, MAN and Volkswagen. DAF has entered the country as well as several Chinese brands like Shacman, Sitrak and Foton
I don’t know about semis but I’ve seen a ton of Volvo & Merceds buses for long travel in Mexico
The Chinese truck foton also has a market in Mexico surprisingly
This guy haven’t uploaded a video in so long 😢
there used to be lots of neat little local truck producers in Mexico but sadly most died out
Pena, Tractocaza, MAGO, Zamarripa, Ramirez, VIPSA, DINA, list really just goes on forever
and a lot of them were made to look like Kenworths visually, but often used lots of parts from various companies like Autocar, White, and in some cases PACCAR (Kenworth/Peterbilt)
great vid as always!
i was gonna say a video about spanish trucking would be interesting since this year megatrucks with two trailers were made legal and we've been using b-doubles, doubles consisting on one long semi trailer and one short trailer and long semitrailers attached to rigid trucks, not to mention the new rolling highway shuttle by rail from Valencia to Madrid
idk if you still plan to make more trucking world episodes, but in any case i'm gonna drop the idea here
My uncle was a mexican trucker, sadly he went missing afew years ago. Its pretty dangerous stuff to do in Mexico.
where did you go
Mexican trucks are badass, straight piped from the turbo out
Thank you buddy, these are extremely interesting.
I've also enjoyed your MM3 video, I never had an xbox, so I played only an MM2, it was wasily moddable, and there were plenty of mods available at the time.
Gosh, my best childhood memories.
Thank you for your videos.
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.
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.🇲🇽
I MISS THIS CHANNEL. PLEASE RETURN
WE MISS YOU YUKON!!!
Damn, this channel came up as fast as it disappeared. Sad, I liked the content and the direction it was heading :(
I love your content, video idea:
Joint video of trucking in Portugal & Spain? (The Iberian Peninsula)
I miss you bro, you actually listend to Filipino viewers (Philippines truck vid)
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.
Just found this channel and I hate that he hasn’t posted in a year what’s the deal?
I love these videos for some reason
The Truck Lore expands.
1:23 why is Puerto Rico included in a map of Mexico ?
Hey buddy are you okay?
man your videos are awesome and each time one comes out it keeps me entertained while waiting for a polish trucking video
I have a memory while traveling to Sinaloa from Zacatecas in the Durango-Mazatlan highway and right before reaching Puente Baluarte the trailers would pass downhill with Jake brakes going all out super loud with their open loud exhausts it looked super badass watching the cabs decorated with men and their families and double 53 footers stuff over there is crazy work!!!
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 (?
There’s a lot of interesting facts about Mexican trucking. Like the fact they use massive tandem trailers. They drive differently too. On shouldered 2-lane highways trucks drive continuously with most of their vehicle on the shoulder with their hazards on to create a middle “lane” for cars to pass in either direction. On-coming traffic is expected to drive onto the shoulder as well if necessary for passing cars to cut through the middle unimpeded.
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 been a year daddy, i really really miss you
It's been almost 6 months
I think that you should cover trucking in eastern europe
Where did bro go
Do surinamese trucking next
he came. he saw. he conquered. and he left as quickly as he came. sutch a shame.
In the Mexico mostly truck had delete and straight pipe…. And mostly custom trucks
I have some family numbers live down Mexico. Every time I visit to my family number one house the next to the highway you can hear a lot of jake break from kenmix and Cummins….and the one rare is my favorite is one truck KM w9 flattop sleeper and very shiny navy blue and 6 or 7 inch pipe drive by.
Let’s go trucking
There’s a Kenworth factory in my hometown Mexicali. 👍🏼
It's been a year now, where'd he go?
Two ladies, one road. ❤❤😂
miss these videos they were pretty entertaining
As a Mexican I don't know what I expected from that title lmao.
we also have our own mexican brand which now makes buses but it used to make some decent semi's its called DINA (diésel nacional) national diesel
Not quite. Very few Mexican cross border freight. US Drivers drop the trailer and a Mexican driver picks it up, and vice-versa.
As truck driver in the United state I would hate driving in Mexico City. From my memory in 2013 their traffic is the craziest I’ve seen. People not using turn signals, forcing their way in front of you, (which is the only way to cross lanes). What surprised me the most was how little people were honking during the madness.
So uh where has Yukon disappeared?
Just got to Mexico a few hours ago and rewatching this video after hearing the glorious jake brake of a Peterbilt
here in mexico we say "Troca" to refer to pick up trucks resembling the Truck pronunciation
It's been a year...
In Mexico there are almost no Western Stars or Peterbilts, the most used in Mexico are Kenworths.
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.
Just got recommended this and realized that you had been gone for quite a while. I would love to see more videos, especially one about my home country Sweden. While some may think it's similar to Finland it's really not, mainly because most of the population is located in the south. There's also water between Sweden and the rest of Europe requiring truckers to either take one of several ferries or the Öresund bridge. These ferries may have lounges, free food and showers exclusively for truckers to attract truckers to take one route over another. Some of the longer ones even have trucker cabins so they can get their sleep while the truck is moving.
Awesome video bro ,mb cover hungary in the next video?
Bruh, where'd you go?
1:28 I’ve been to Mexico twice and when you leave the city the roads just immediately turn to dirt or gravel
Viva Mexico! Viva los camioneros!
You should do a video on Chilean trucking, we've been a truck brand melting pot since the 50-60's, nowadays you mostly see American, German, Brazilian and Chinese semis, with Japan and Korea dominating all the smaller markets, + all sorts of oddities in the 80s and 90s, like Samsung, Tata, or DongFeng trucks.
The trucking industry is decently paid [esp compared to the rest of Latin America] hell, both from the general world to truckers (Indigenous conflicts in the south were crazy about burning logger trailer trucks up until recently) and from truckers to everyone else the treatment becomes worse (as they pretty much have a monopoly on transport, they may stop highways and "protest" with hookers any rail expansion attempts, plus the 1972 trucker crisis).
Most highways are sparkly clean but it comes at high toll costs, and spiking up one's nose to do higher work hours while not utterly common, its still a known secret.
makes me happy seeing Mexicans still using the old school trucks
They also sit in lines for inspections for a really long time the lines are sometimes miles long
When is Yukon coming back?
I travel through Mexico a lot, the trucks back up traffic horrendously, but I don’t blame the drivers, the top speed on most highways is 60km/hr. Which is very slow compared to US
The salary you mentioned is monthly right? 3:04
A little fact, México have European and Chinese truck brands such as DAF, SCANIA, MAN, Foton, Sinotruk, etc.
Nice video! is there a lot of Mexican truck traffic driving into Mexico's southern neighbors, Belize and Guatemala? Is it possible to drive over Mexican roads from the US into Belize and/or Guatemala?
Lived near Palma Sola - major East coast highway. Insane what you see down south (this was during 07-12) viva mi Mexico🔥
I also love mexican trucking, especially when I pull up to grab an empty and the entire lot has had the glad hand seals stolen.
No idea why they do it, I even asked a mexican driver. He said he's also got no idea.
This isn't a slight, or a jab at them or anything. It's so commonplace that it hurts my brain to even think about.
Why would you want a bunch of old dry rotted seals?
More interesting facts……
Mexican trucks haul well over 120 tons(sometimes more)
A lot of drivers have to use pericos (Rx amphetamines) or other uppers because they often drive for 3days nonstop.
why was puerto rico on that chart at 1:30?
Hope the creator of this video is okay. I watched this vid when I came out and was expecting more but no new uploads. Hope all is well
I am a truck driver ready to say peace out the pay is really a insult
thank you for making this video i was so egier to see you explain about Mexican Truck Driving, thank you so much again :)
I dunno about trucks or whatever. But I've heard there's been lots of truck drivers getting mugged/kidnaped recently by the drug cartels and stuff. Plus they have to go to desolate places and stay at shady hotels so they must be in constant danger I assume. Some real daredevils, these people. Heck even being a bus driver is dangerous when you're in Mexico, I can't even imagine how truck drivers have it.
My uncle that lives in Mexico is actually a Semi truck driver there and whenever im there he usually isn't there I only saw him twice one time when I stayed at my Tia's home I remember one time he told me a story about how he was stopped by the cartel near the US border because they wanted to steal his load he had a reefer they had guns and stuff so he obviously agreed because he didn't wanna die he told me he was driving a International LT also you forgot to mention that european cabover semi trucks are also used quite frequently for trucking on the expressways of Mexico since they are seen as more comfortable on those types of roads I have seen MAN semis and Scania trucks aswell.
Bro come back, we miss you