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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA -
Want cross-border trucking? How about a cross-border trucker's union?... A border fence with a hole big enough for Mexican trucksSan Francisco, CAL,USA -Salon, by Andrew Leonard -June 20, 2007: -- On Tuesday, a House Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing on "Cross-Border Trucking Threats." At one point, Stephen Russell, the founder, chairman and CEO of Celadon Group Inc., one of the dozen largest trucking companies in the United States, compared the situation in North America to that of Europe... "If you put yourself in Europe and were a pasta maker in Venice and had an order to ship pasta in a truckload to Amsterdam, it wouldn't go in an Italian truck to the French border, a French truck to the Belgian border, Belgian truck to the Dutch border, Dutch truck to Amsterdam. It would be taken by an Italian truck or a Dutch truck going through..." Integrating Mexico into a North American equivalent of the EU poses much greater challenges than EU integration. The economic disparities are greater, the border is bigger, the cultural animosities more intense. And it doesn't help at all that the chief advocates of making it easier to cross the border are those who want to exploit the cost savings possible by shipping goods in Mexican trucks. True security will only come when Mexican truckers are paid as well as American or Canadian truckers... (Public Photo Gallery by static bob)
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