THE LONG-HAUL IN MEXICAN TRUCKING - TRAVERSING THE BORDERLANDS OF THENORTH AND THE SOUTH

Northern Mexican truckers use personal networks patronage, and trust t o organize their long-haul produce trade, in contrast to more corporat ive styles and organization of highland Maya truckers in Mexico's sout h, who also ship to and from Mexico's central produce markets. Yet bot h groups of entrepreneurs traverse their respective borderlands into a lien markets (across the U.S.-Mexico border into Los Angeles, or into Mexican national markets formerly closed to Mayas). In doing so, both elaborate their distinctive style of trucking as ethnic enterprise, co ntributing to the ethnic differentiation of borderland zones under con temporary capitalism.