Overview
- Canacar and Amotac announced an indefinite national stoppage that begins Monday, October 26, and will suspend trucking activity and stage highway protests without plans to block roads.
- Organizers say the action responds to repeated attacks, extortion (cobro de piso), poor road conditions and fiscal rules they say raise costs and hurt independent drivers.
- Sector leaders claim broad participation, with Amotac estimating about one million transportists and Canacar citing roughly 21,000 daily Mexico–U.S. truck crossings and $1.8 billion in daily trade flows at risk.
- Officials from the Interior Ministry issued a public appeal for negotiation, saying institutional channels remain open and urging measures that prevent harm to citizens and cargo movement.
- The strike could disrupt deliveries of groceries, industrial inputs and fuel and the groups want fiscal changes such as raising the annual income threshold to 420 million pesos so more drivers can access a toll-payment tax stimulus.