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DEBATE * USA - Trial Run for Mexican Trucks Hits Roadblocks
New York,NY,USA -Bloomberg, by Cindy Skrzycki -March 20, 2007: -- The latest plan to let Mexican trucks cross the U.S. border to deliver goods to the heartland is facing the same kind of obstacles that stalled earlier efforts... In announcing the plan, the department sidestepped its usual rulemaking procedure, so the new program wouldn't have to undergo the usual time-consuming comment period... A key issue remains whether administration officials already have decided that a full opening of the border is safe... Transportation officials said they had no intention of making that memo a binding document. The administration simply seized the moment, after Mexico recently agreed to let U.S. inspectors audit trucks in Mexico, to announce the program... A few American trucking companies already have set up shop in Mexico. Others said they are having doubts about traveling south of the border... The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has long opposed what it views as a potential flood of cheap labor competing for its drivers' jobs while using unsafe rigs... "They do not meet our standards,'' Teamsters President James Hoffa said in an interview... He said the Teamsters will sue if necessary to stop the program...
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