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DEBATE * USA - America shouldn't fear Mexican trucks
Los Angeles,CA,USA -Los Angeles Daily News, by GARY M. GALLES ( professor of economics at Pepperdine University) -27 Mar 2007: -- Although NAFTA committed the U.S. to allow Mexican trucks full access to its roads by 1995, this commitment has been repeatedly stalled by assertions that Mexican trucks were dirty and unsafe. Now, a one-year demonstration project will allow access for up to 100 Mexican trucking firms to evaluate the results, and apocalyptic claims are being recycled again. For example, Teamsters' President Jim Hoffa calls the move "Russian roulette on America's Highways."... The protectionist motive for such claims is obvious. But why do those asserting that Mexican trucks will foul our environment and terrorize our highways so stridently oppose a test of their assertions? If they are right, it would validate their position. But they know they are wrong, so they must derail any test that would prove it... The basis for claims that Mexican trucks are too dirty essentially boils down to their greater average age, while safety assertions are primarily based on high border-inspection failure rates. But both are misleading... At Otay Mesa, the main California entry point for Mexican trucks, the Department of Transportation reports that "Mexican trucks currently operating in the commercial zone are as safe as the trucks operated by companies in the United States."... If we eliminated the current inefficient, protectionist policies on Mexican trucks, combined with an effective regulatory regime, the newest, cleanest Mexican trucks would carry longer hauls in the U.S. The oldest, dirtiest trucks would disappear from the border. And the reduced time idling in line at border checkpoints would further reduce pollution... No wonder the Mexican-truck protectionists oppose a demonstration of that reality...
* Mexico - Mexican carriers want out of pilot program
Mexico,DF,MEX-Land Line Magazine ( Grain Valley,MO,USA) -March 28, 2007: -- A trade association representing Mexican motor carriers has asked the Mexican Senate to cancel the cross-border pilot program with the United States... "CANACAR has formally requested not to open the borders for trans-border services and to have the pilot program suspended until conditions for a fair competitive environment are existing and that the Mexican trucking industry has the guarantee of not being subject to unfair inequitable and discretional treatment by U.S. authorities,” CANACAR National President Tirso Martinez Angheben wrote in a press release... CANACAR is an organization which represents the general interests of the Mexican Trucking industry...
* USA - Mexico ready to send fleets on our roads
Pueblo,CO,USA -Pueblo Chieftain, by Chuck Green -29 Mar 2007: -- The United States is about to allow thousands of cargo trucks from Mexico to have full access to American highways and urban streets - without having to comply with U.S. Department of Transportation trucking regulations... The program, authorized by President George Bush under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), has all the earmarks of a disaster...
* USA - OOIDA applauds legislation putting Mexican trucks on hold
Washington,DC,USA -Truck News (CAN) -29 Mar 2007: -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers’ Association (OOIDA) is applauding the introduction of the NAFTA Trucking Safety Act of 2007, introduced by US Rep. Duncan Hunter... The legislation requires Mexican-domiciled trucks to be held to the same standards as US trucks. The bill could put on hold a pilot project that would provide 100 Mexican trucking companies with unfettered access to the US...
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