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DEBATE: Border Plan * USA/Mexico
* "To Involve Fewer Than 1,000 Mexican Trucks"
USA -TTNews -8 Mar 2007: -- Transportation Secretary Mary Peters told a congressional panel Thursday that DOT expects the pilot program involving allowing trucks from Mexico to U.S. roads will involve fewer than 1,000 trucks... “These companies will be limited to transporting international freight and will not be authorized to make domestic deliveries between U.S. cities,” Peters said in a statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s transportation subcommittee... Several big U.S. trucking companies, meanwhile, said they supported the plan, Bloomberg reported... Teamsters President James Hoffa, meanwhile, told the subcommittee that the union opposes the decision to open the border and would “allow unsafe Mexican trucks to operate throughout the United States.“... The Bush administration is playing Russian roulette with highway safety and national security,” Hoffa said. “The resources do not exist to carry out an aggressive oversight and enforcement program.”...
* Mexican trucks, truckers allowed in U.S. - "No, we're not interested," said Manuel Sotelo
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express/KENS 5 Eyewitness News, by Angela Kocherga -6 Mar 2007: -- U.S. roads will soon be open to Mexican truckers and their trucks... You might expect the Mexican trucking company Fletes Sotelo, with its extensive safety program, onsite company inspections, a large fleet of trucks and experience hauling cargo across the border, to be among the first to want to expand throughout the U.S... "No, we're not interested," said Manuel Sotelo, the trucking company owner. "There's discrimination.".. Mexican trucks are routinely subjected to more inspections than U.S. vehicles, said the vice president of Mexico's transportation association... Mexican trucking companies say do not judge their entire fleet by what you see at the border because they send the oldest vehicles to international crossings because the trucks often spend hours in line idling while they're waiting for inspection by U.S. authorities... Even so, the older trucks pass inspection and then hand off their cargo to a long haul trucker in the U.S...
USA -TTNews -8 Mar 2007: -- Transportation Secretary Mary Peters told a congressional panel Thursday that DOT expects the pilot program involving allowing trucks from Mexico to U.S. roads will involve fewer than 1,000 trucks... “These companies will be limited to transporting international freight and will not be authorized to make domestic deliveries between U.S. cities,” Peters said in a statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s transportation subcommittee... Several big U.S. trucking companies, meanwhile, said they supported the plan, Bloomberg reported... Teamsters President James Hoffa, meanwhile, told the subcommittee that the union opposes the decision to open the border and would “allow unsafe Mexican trucks to operate throughout the United States.“... The Bush administration is playing Russian roulette with highway safety and national security,” Hoffa said. “The resources do not exist to carry out an aggressive oversight and enforcement program.”...
* Mexican trucks, truckers allowed in U.S. - "No, we're not interested," said Manuel Sotelo
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express/KENS 5 Eyewitness News, by Angela Kocherga -6 Mar 2007: -- U.S. roads will soon be open to Mexican truckers and their trucks... You might expect the Mexican trucking company Fletes Sotelo, with its extensive safety program, onsite company inspections, a large fleet of trucks and experience hauling cargo across the border, to be among the first to want to expand throughout the U.S... "No, we're not interested," said Manuel Sotelo, the trucking company owner. "There's discrimination.".. Mexican trucks are routinely subjected to more inspections than U.S. vehicles, said the vice president of Mexico's transportation association... Mexican trucking companies say do not judge their entire fleet by what you see at the border because they send the oldest vehicles to international crossings because the trucks often spend hours in line idling while they're waiting for inspection by U.S. authorities... Even so, the older trucks pass inspection and then hand off their cargo to a long haul trucker in the U.S...
* Allowing Mexican Truckers All the Way to Memphis Signals Big Payload, Experts Say
Memphis,TN,USA -The Memphis Daily News, by ERIC SMITH -7 Mar 2007: -- Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced Feb. 23 that beginning in April, the United States will allow Mexican trucks into the country through a cross-border trucking pilot program... The decision resonated with logistics and transportation companies nationwide, especially those in Memphis. As a logistical hub - one that serves as a key landing and warehousing point for domestic and international cargo before it moves on - the city no doubt will be affected... How the program works out remains to be seen. Goods will flow into and out of the country more easily, that's for sure, but senior partner of trucking company C.A.T. Memphis, Chris Carr wonders if American trucking companies might suffer... "It's going to depend on which customer controls the freight," he said. "For instance, if a Mexican customer controls the freight all the way to the U.S., then the chances are he's going to choose a Mexican carrier. ... So you'd have a Mexican driver going all the way to Chicago or wherever. That's a potential load lost for a U.S. company."... (Photo by ERIC SMITH - TRUCKIN' IT: Neal Stiles, a truck driver for C.A.T. Memphis, prepares for a trip to Gary, Ind., earlier this week. His profession is at the center of a controversial decision by the federal government to allow Mexican trucks into the United States and vice versa)
Memphis,TN,USA -The Memphis Daily News, by ERIC SMITH -7 Mar 2007: -- Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced Feb. 23 that beginning in April, the United States will allow Mexican trucks into the country through a cross-border trucking pilot program... The decision resonated with logistics and transportation companies nationwide, especially those in Memphis. As a logistical hub - one that serves as a key landing and warehousing point for domestic and international cargo before it moves on - the city no doubt will be affected... How the program works out remains to be seen. Goods will flow into and out of the country more easily, that's for sure, but senior partner of trucking company C.A.T. Memphis, Chris Carr wonders if American trucking companies might suffer... "It's going to depend on which customer controls the freight," he said. "For instance, if a Mexican customer controls the freight all the way to the U.S., then the chances are he's going to choose a Mexican carrier. ... So you'd have a Mexican driver going all the way to Chicago or wherever. That's a potential load lost for a U.S. company."... (Photo by ERIC SMITH - TRUCKIN' IT: Neal Stiles, a truck driver for C.A.T. Memphis, prepares for a trip to Gary, Ind., earlier this week. His profession is at the center of a controversial decision by the federal government to allow Mexican trucks into the United States and vice versa)
* Plan to open southern border draws opposition
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express, by Meena Thiruvengadam-7 Mar 2007: -- Old adversaries in a 12-year war over cross-border trucking are sharpening their swords in preparation for a fresh fight... While the American Trucking Association and National Foreign Trade Council have voiced their support for the pilot program, the measure faces criticism from the Teamsters, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Public Citizen, and Democratic Reps. James Oberstar of Minnesota and Peter DeFazio of Oregon... Now, three drivers and three tractors must handle each shipment from Mexico. Shippers have criticized the process, saying it adds to the cost and time needed to transport goods... An estimated more than $2 billion in goods is traded among the U.S., Mexico and Canada each day, 75 percent of it by truck... Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, a Democrat whose congressional district includes San Antonio, agrees, "I don't think it exposes us to any greater risk than is presently out there," he said... "The pilot project will either prove or disprove fears and concerns," Gonzalez said. "At least Mexico will be accorded the legal treatment it deserves as a party to a legal agreement with the U.S."...
* Let the Trucks Roll - Is Congress going to apply the brakes to the benefits of U.S.-Mexico trade?
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post - March 8, 2007: -- ANOTHER ANTI-NAFTA pile-on is brewing in Washington this week. Even though the United States has gained jobs, wealth and goodwill from the regional trade pact, for years opponents of free trade have tried to persuade American leaders to ditch one of the agreement's most benign provisions -- allowing Mexican freight trucks onto American roads. When the United States signed the treaty in 1993, it promised to allow such trucks in, scheduling implementation for 2000. But lobbying from the Teamsters and others with economic turf to protect have held that up -- until now... Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, will hold hearings today on the issue. We hope that she and her colleagues fully support the demonstration project and its ultimate goal of making cross-border trade more efficient for all Mexican and U.S. carriers. Currently, long-haul trucks in Mexico stop at the border and transfer their goods to short-haul vehicles that cross into the United States and transfer their cargo to American trucks. The process is unnecessarily wasteful and environmentally harmful, and it makes a variety of goods that Americans buy more expensive. After 14 years, it's time to let Mexican trucks in...
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post - March 8, 2007: -- ANOTHER ANTI-NAFTA pile-on is brewing in Washington this week. Even though the United States has gained jobs, wealth and goodwill from the regional trade pact, for years opponents of free trade have tried to persuade American leaders to ditch one of the agreement's most benign provisions -- allowing Mexican freight trucks onto American roads. When the United States signed the treaty in 1993, it promised to allow such trucks in, scheduling implementation for 2000. But lobbying from the Teamsters and others with economic turf to protect have held that up -- until now... Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, will hold hearings today on the issue. We hope that she and her colleagues fully support the demonstration project and its ultimate goal of making cross-border trade more efficient for all Mexican and U.S. carriers. Currently, long-haul trucks in Mexico stop at the border and transfer their goods to short-haul vehicles that cross into the United States and transfer their cargo to American trucks. The process is unnecessarily wasteful and environmentally harmful, and it makes a variety of goods that Americans buy more expensive. After 14 years, it's time to let Mexican trucks in...
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