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DEBATE: Border Plan * USA/Mexico
* USA - Senator critical of DOT and ‘lack of communication’ over Mexican trucks
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker -March 14, 2007: -- U.S. Senator Mark Pryor, D-Ark., today sent a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters expressing his concerns about the agency’s plans for a pilot project to allow Mexican trucks to operate beyond their current limits. Noting his “disappointment” with the Department and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s “lack of communication” with the regard to the Feb. 23 announcement of the pilot program, Pryor reminded Peters that he had asked her about the status of such a plan during her confirmation hearing last September...
* USA - Public Citizen sues over pilot plan; FMCSA says it's making 'good faith' effort
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker -March 15, 2007: -- Public Citizen says it has filed suit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on behalf of a highway safety organization to compel the agency to release information about a “controversial” program to allow Mexico-domiciled trucks on all U.S. highways...
* USA - FMCSA responds to criticism of NAFTA pilot program
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker -March 15, 2007: -- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s announcement in February of a pilot program to allow 100 approved Mexican carriers beyond the narrow, close-to-the-border trade zones has predictably sparked heated response... Recently John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), responded to some of the criticism... Hill said under the pilot program, a Mexican driver must pass a medical exam administered by an agency within the SCT (Mexico’s equivalent of DOT), provide proof of residence, proof of age, provide a certificate of secondary education to prove he or she has studied English, and provide a driver training certificate performed by a SCT-accredited training center. If a training certificate isn’t provided, the SCT will administer testing, he said...
* USA - OPINION - Trucks from Mexico: Try it
Albany,OR,USA -The Albany Democrat Herald -15 Mar 2007: -- Peter DeFazio, our congressman from the 4th District, continues to work against allowing Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States. He says he’s worried about safety, but what is the evidence that Mexican trucks would be driven any less safely than those already on the road?... DeFazio reported from Washington Tuesday that he had just held a congressional hearing on the U.S. plan to allow 100 Mexican truck companies to operate on U.S. highways... If the United States and Mexico are ever to have normal trade relations — not characterized by millions of illegal immigrants and workers sending money home — then the Mexican economy is going to have to be improved. That’s what the North American Free Trade Agreement was supposed to accomplish, among other things. It hardly makes sense for the United States to drag its feet any further in carrying out the parts of the treaty that deal with trucks...
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