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MEX's TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Safety, honor and NAFTA
Full access was part of the North American Free Trade Agreement that was supposed to have been implemented by 2000 - The agreement was approved way back in 1993. It ought to be honoredCharlottesville,VA,USA -The Charlottesville Daily Progress -May 18, 2007: -- The United States has an obligation to honor its treaties and agreements. NAFTA is one of those agreements... The House approved an altered pilot program. It extended the test period to three years and set criteria for measuring success, along with an independent board to do the measuring... The House program would open the border to no more than 100 trucking firms from Mexico, which would be allowed to operate no more than 1,000 trucks in the United States. Before they are allowed to roll, they would have to be certified as safe and an independent review panel would have to be set up to monitor the pilot program... U.S. truckers would also have to have the same access to Mexico as the United States grants to Mexican truckers... But if the United States can do so while protecting the safety of its people, then by all means that’s exactly what it should do...
* USA - How's That Old Alamo Song Go? - What if Mexican truckers gained a foothold in the North American trucking market?
USA -Today's Trucking, by Jim Park -21 May 2007: -- If you're still thinking this is a pretty far-fetched idea, you may want to reconsider. Under the terms of our beloved NAFTA agreement, Mexican trucks could have equal access to any and all international freight on the continent -- including Canadian loads bound for the U.S. and vice versa... There's not much standing in the way of an influx of Mexican trucks right at the moment, except for the determined lobbying of a few groups that see the inherent risk of such a move... The American Trucking Associations (ATA) supports the opening of the American southern border to Mexican carriers, calling it "a step toward efficiency"... ATA is thinking in terms of the movement of goods between the U.S. and Mexico. They're probably not terribly concerned with what might happen on their northern border...
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