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DEBATE * USA - Mexican's Trucks
* Some Mexican truckers may sit out border opening
Houston,TX,USA -Land Line Magazine /KHOU-TV -March 8, 2007: -- Some large Mexican trucking companies have little interest in sending their trucks north into the U.S. if the border is opened... That report cites the owner of a Juarez, Mexico-based company, who says Mexicans are discriminated against in the 25-mile commercial zone, where they’re presently allowed on U.S. soil... A vice president of one of Mexico’s transportation association said Mexican trucks are routinely subjected to more inspections than American vehicles... Meanwhile, more than 500 Mexican trucking companies have applied to participate in a cross-border pilot program that only 100 companies will ultimately be chosen for...
* Local truck drivers concerned about the financial impact of opening the border
Eddy,TX,USA -EN-TV -Mar 1, 2007: -- The U.S. Department of Transportation said its plan to open up the border to Mexican drivers will save consumers $400 million a year... NBC 6 News talked with local truck drivers who said they're concerned about the financial impact on the U.S. trucking industry... However, some in the trucking industry are worried about the competition... Mexican drivers must follow U.S. safety and security requirements... Just last week, screenings began on the border for Mexican trucks...
* Mexico’s Trucks, America’s Silence
CA,USA -theOneRepublic, by Patrick Mallon -2 Mar 2007: -- Our weak border President continues his mission to make America more like Mexico when on Thursday, February 23, the administration announced details of a plan to permit 100 Mexican trucking companies to travel freely in the U.S... For the sake of contrarians, let's assume this is a good thing in that trucker's making a quarter of the hourly wage of American drivers will help reduce the cost of goods crossing the border. Additionally, foreign trucking companies will be able to squeeze five to ten more years of road life out of their fleets, thus reducing overhead and capital investment. And goods will flow more freely back and forth across the border. Sounds good on a remedial level, which is about the extent of the government's willingness to disclose the impact and consequences to a largely uninformed American public... One undeniable fact is that there is a national shortage of roughly 120,000 drivers in the U.S., and many high-paying jobs go begging for a few good men... It is well known in industry circles that Mexican trucks operate nowhere near the American level of safety. Meticulous log books must be maintained for every repair, every change of a lug nut, every brake line inspection. The same is not required in Mexico... No wonder Bush and the NAFTA crowd want no public participation in these decisions... It is a fact that for the new "global economy" to function, America's quality of life must be reduced, and American jobs must go to the cheapest bidder, anywhere in the world...
* Not ready to roll - Before Mexican trucks return to U.S. highways, the United States' truck fleet must be made safer
Houston,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle -March 4, 2007: -- The news that Mexican trucks will be rolling down U.S. highways again, after a 25-year moratorium, draws mixed reactions. Business, trade groups and proponents of NAFTA expansion applaud the move, while some members of Congress, safety advocates, environmentalists and labor leaders express opposition... Mexico's truck fleet, critics say, is poorly maintained and therefore dangerous to other motorists. But the most compelling reason they should not yet return to U.S. highways is that the U.S. trucking industry and the agencies that oversee it have such worrisome inadequacies of their own. The first order of business should be to get their respective houses in order... All things being equal, Houston and Texas should welcome this cooperative trucking policy that promotes free trade. But with such abysmal figures both for companies and the federal agencies charged with regulating them, it would seem prudent to put the brakes on any expansion of truck traffic until the safety of this nation's domestic truck fleet shows a marked improvement...
* Inspector general USA: Mexican standards not the same
USA -eTrucker, by Todd Dills -9 Mar 2007: -- The inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation told a U.S. Senate subcommittee March 8 that he had no confidence that U.S. and Mexican trucking standards are equivalent, as Congress said six years ago must happen before any opening of the border to trucks... During a hearing on the Bush administration’s proposed pilot program for cross-border trucking, DOT Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III also cited flaws in the drug-testing regime planned for Mexican drivers. Urine samples will be collected in Mexico, but the analysis will be done in the United States, because no lab south of the border is certified to U.S. standards...
* Con-way Freight Executive Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
Ann Arbor,Mich,USA -Layover -March 9, 2007: -- An executive from Con-way Freight, the nation's leading regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier, appeared yesterday before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. Con-way Freight-Southern president James P. (Phil) Worthington appeared on behalf of the American Trucking Associations, Inc. (ATA) at a hearing on "Long-Haul Cross-Border Trucking Operations with Mexico.".. Worthington spoke in support of an initiative announced last month aimed at expanding cross-border trucking operations with Mexico. The year-long pilot program will simplify freight delivery across the border by allowing U.S. trucks to transport freight directly into Mexico. Certain Mexican trucking companies will be granted rights to make freight deliveries beyond the roughly 20-mile commercial zones currently in place along the border... During his testimony, Worthington noted that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has increased U.S.-Mexico trade by more than 400 percent, while strict cross-border trucking regulations have meant delays and inefficiencies for motor carriers forced to transfer loads from one country to a neutral loading point before they can enter the destination country...
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