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DEBATE * USA - DOT announces prescreening program for Mexican trucks
El Paso,TX,USA -KTEN (Denison,TX) -23 Feb 2007: -- USA and Mexican officials say they'll try prescreening trucks bound for each others interiors to open U-S road to Mexican trucking... U-S Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced today in El Paso that D-O-T will begin a one-year pilot program to let U-S and Mexican trucks cross their shared border more freely...* It's official: Mexican trucks coming100 companies will have unlimited access to U.S. roads
USA -TTNews.com/WorldNetDaily.com (Grants Pass,OR,USA), by Jerome R. Corsi -Feb 23, 2007: -- One hundred Mexican trucking companies will have unlimited access to U.S. roads to haul international cargo as part of a year-long pilot program, the Department of Transportation announced today... In return, 100 U.S. trucking companies will be allowed to operate in Mexico but at a later date...
* Hoffa Blasts Bush Plan to Open Border to Unsafe Mexican Trucks - Calls for Congressional Hearings, Prevent Repeat of Dubai Ports Debacle
Washington,DC,USA -PRNewswire-USNewswire -23 Febb 2007: -- The Bush administration is expected to announce today it intends to open the U.S. border to unsafe Mexican trucks in the next six to eight weeks for a one-year experimental pilot program. The border has remained closed, except for transfers within a 20-mile commercial zone, since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) because of the Mexican government's failure to meet the truck safety and driver training requirements of NAFTA... The Teamsters Union has led efforts to keep the border closed for the past twelve years. Just two years ago, the Department of Transportation Inspector General found that the Mexican government and Mexican motor carriers did not meet congressionally mandated requirements. An Inspector General audit report is due in the next couple of months, raising serious questions as to why President Bush is pushing this experimental program ahead of that report...
* Cross-border plan sets off reactions in DC
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -Feb. 23, 2007: -- ... The leadership of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure waded into the fray on Friday, shortly after Secretary Peters announced the DOT’s plan... Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-MN, and Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-ID, both were quick to voice concerns over the DOT’s action. Oberstar is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and DeFazio is chairman of that committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit... “It is impossible to know how many hours or days a driver has been behind the wheel of a truck in Mexico, without rest, prior to crossing the border and entering our highways. Anecdotal evidence from news reports suggests that working hours for truck drivers in Mexico go far beyond anyone’s estimate of a safe, reasonable limit,” Oberstar said... “Drug and alcohol testing is another essential element. Without oversight and established controls at collection sites, compliance is very difficult to gauge."... DeFazio had similar concerns...
* Cross-border trucking plan receives cold reception
USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -23 Feb 2007: -- Congressional transportation leaders attacked the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot cross-border trucking program, which DOT Secretary Mary Peters says will allow American truckers into the Mexican marketplace as well... In about 60 days, when the initial safety audits are done and proof of insurance verified, the first Mexican trucks authorized under the pilot program will begin traveling beyond the border areas, Peters said at a Feb. 23 news conference...
* Bush decision to let Mexican trucks far into U.S. criticized
Washington,DC,USA -News 8 Austin (Austin,TX) /AP -23 Feb 2007: -- The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress... They say Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs and endanger motorists on the northern side of the Mexican border...
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