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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA -
* FMCSA responds to law’s demands on Mexican trucksWashington,DC,USA -eTrucker/CCJ, by By Avery Vise -8 June 2007: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has signaled the Bush administration’s determination to push a pilot project on expanded Mexican carrier operations in the United States by publishing information required by Congress before the program could move forward... FMCSA announced in the notice that the Department of Transportation had appointed a panel of three transportation experts to assess the safety performance of Mexico-domiciled carriers operating beyond the border commercial zone in the United States... In addition, FMCSA has asked the Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) to provide independent management of the project. The evaluation will determine whether Mexican carriers differ from U.S. carriers in areas such as crashes, unsafe driving, use of controlled substances and out-of-service rates... According to the details provided by FMCSA, 107 Mexican carriers had applied for participation in the program as of May 31. But only 24 of those carriers had had any vehicles inspected for operation in the United States. The total number of vehicles inspected as of May 31 was 117. All but two of the 24 carriers had fewer than 10 vehicles inspected...
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