Oaxaca’s mezcal industry is having a moment. Mexico bottled 7.7 million liters of mezcal in 2025 — up more than 400% from a decade earlier — and the global market is projected to cross $1 billion by the early 2030s. Nearly 90% of that production still comes out of Oaxaca, largely from small, family-run distilleries …
Our guest for this Borderless Coverage edition of the Trucking Matters Podcast Series is Kenneth Smith Ramos, who served as the Chief Negotiator of USMCA for Mexico in 2018, playing a key role in the trade agreement’s ratification. In addition to his leadership on USMCA, Kenneth is the former Head of NAFTA from Mexico in …
Jerry Maldonado, who is the Chairman of the Board for the Laredo Motor Carrier Association, is our guest for this Borderless Coverage edition of the Trucking Matters Podcast Series. Jerry is also part of the Management Team at Warren Transport, where he is the Director of Laredo and Mexico Operations. Jerry has over 20 years of successful management …
For our first Borderless Coverage episode of 2026, we will be featuring the insights of Martin Rojas, a highly respected subject matter expert with more than 30 years of experience within the cross-border sector of the transportation industry. Martin has followed up nearly 20 years in leadership roles with the American Trucking Associations by serving for the …
As the United States and Mexico continue to strengthen economic ties, security remains one of the most important factors shaping the future of cross-border commerce. While recent joint efforts between the two countries have demonstrated progress in combating organized crime, another challenge continues to influence the business environment: political corruption. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has …
Ernesto Gaytan, Jr., General Manager of Super Transport International (STI), is our featured guest on this Borderless Coverage edition of the podcast. Ernesto and STI have become respected fixtures in Laredo, Texas, and within the cross-border sector of transportation in and out of Mexico. Ernesto helped lead the effort to establish the Laredo Motor Carriers Association and he …
Trucking Matters from Mexico City for this Borderless Coverage edition of the podcast. Carlos, who earned the reputation as the top corporate attorney in Mexico for the transportation and logistics sector, is also a partner and co-founder of the Mexico carrier vetting and rating platform, Confianza. As you will hear, Borderless Coverage founder and podcast host Mark Vickers, …
With the debut episode of our Trucking Matters Borderless Coverage Series, Reliance Partners welcomes Werner Enterprises Chairman and CEO Derek Leathers to discuss a host of topics related to the company’s cross-border operations while exploring the evolution of trade with Mexico since the days of NAFTA. Mark Vickers, an Executive Vice President and the Head …
A new report from the Institute for Homeland Security at Sam Houston State University sheds light on the evolving cargo theft landscape across Texas and Mexico — and it also reinforces many of the concerns industry leaders like Mark Vickers of Reliance Partners have been raising around cross-border freight security. In Cargo Theft in the …
After Mexican security forces killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Osequera Cervantes (the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) cartel), gunmen responded by hijacking and setting cars and trucks on fire to blockade highways, paralyzing logistics routes across Mexico. The Mencho operation is a major breakthrough in Mexico’s fight against organized crime. But, it’s also …