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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* Mexican Trucks a good thingUSA -Plancks Constant.org, by Bernie -5 Sept 2007: -- Here's the story: The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks and will do so probably tomorrow after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative. The test will last a year and comprises 151 Mexican trucks... But I'm a bit conflicted on this issue. Anything that destroys the UAW hold on our trucking industry is a good thing. On the other hand, we do need to control who comes into this country... As for drugs, stop the war on drugs and make drugs legal and there won't be any more drug crimes or incentive for Mexicans to engage in it. If we could just get over the moral issues of drugs there would be less drug abuse in this country. We have millions of drug addicts in this country precisely because it's illegal... When cocaine and heroin were legal in the last century we never had this monumental problem... The prohibition of alcohol is what led to the emergence of powerful organized crime families. As much as alcohol is a horrible drug, having it be legal has kept urban gangs from selling it on street corners and killing each other over it....Sorry, not the UAW, although that too should be destroyed, I meant the teamsters union... (Photo by David Sanders /Arizona Daily Star -- Trucks wait to cross into the United States at the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales)
* Mexican big rigs could threaten trucker wages, drivers say“The legal restrictions that have existed in the past will be replaced by economics”
Pharr,TX,USA -The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville,TX), by Kyle Arnold -September 5, 2007: -- ... Teamsters, independent truckers and even environmental groups vehemently oppose the plan, claim-ing less experienced Mexican truck drivers will drive down wages, create safety problems and hurt the environment with pollution-emitting rigs... Opponents say the program would force many of those 4,000 to compete with workers that earn less than half the wage of American truck drivers. The average trucker in the United States earns about $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Maquiladora industry experts say Mexican truckers earn half that, and in many cases far less... Business officials say the immediate impact from the new measure will be minimal. Mexican trucking companies will have to teach drivers English and license trucks to drive in all 50 states, said Keith Patridge, president of the McAllen Economic Development Corp... The new rule could actually save some local companies thousands of dollars in unnecessary freight transfer costs, said Frank King, president of Am-Mex Produces, a distribution warehouse and light manufacturer with operations in McAllen and Reynosa... There is also a question about the cost for Mexican truck companies to license vehicles in all 50 states, Patridge said. “The legal restrictions that have existed in the past will be replaced by economics,” he said... (Photo by Alex Jones/The Monitor - Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspector Alfonso Zavala signals a Mexican 18-wheeler at the Texas Department of Public Safety Inspection Station at the Pharr port of entry on Wednesday afternoon)
* Ensuring the Safety and Security of My Truck and Cargo
USA -FamilySecurityMatters.org, by Mark R. Taylor (*) -5 Set 2007: -- In my twenty-plus-year career driving trucks across the 48 states, Canada and Iraq, I have seen fuel prices and taxes rise to new heights; I have seen regulations implemented by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that tell me when to sleep and when to drive; I have seen any number of changes that affect the trucking industry, good and bad. However, I have not seen anything that will cause irreparable harm to the American trucking industry like the Mexican Truck Pilot Program... As of September 6, 2007, the new target date for this next step in the invasion of America to begin, I am afraid it is the training I obtained driving in Iraq, not the years of safely driving an 18 wheeler in the U.S., which will ensure the safety and security of my truck and my cargo... (*) Mark R. Taylor served in Iraq from January 2004 to May 2005 as a civilian convoy commander.
USA -FamilySecurityMatters.org, by Mark R. Taylor (*) -5 Set 2007: -- In my twenty-plus-year career driving trucks across the 48 states, Canada and Iraq, I have seen fuel prices and taxes rise to new heights; I have seen regulations implemented by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that tell me when to sleep and when to drive; I have seen any number of changes that affect the trucking industry, good and bad. However, I have not seen anything that will cause irreparable harm to the American trucking industry like the Mexican Truck Pilot Program... As of September 6, 2007, the new target date for this next step in the invasion of America to begin, I am afraid it is the training I obtained driving in Iraq, not the years of safely driving an 18 wheeler in the U.S., which will ensure the safety and security of my truck and my cargo... (*) Mark R. Taylor served in Iraq from January 2004 to May 2005 as a civilian convoy commander.
* Federal Court: Bid to Halt Mexican Trucking Lacks Merit
USA -TruckingInfo.com -3 Sept 2007: -- A Teamsters union effort to halt a program to give U.S. truck drivers access into Mexico and allow a limited number of Mexican trucks to operate long-haul routes within the United States lacks merit, according to documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday... Attorney Brigham McCown of Winstead PC in Dallas is the former general counsel for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration who helped negotiate and design the new program while serving as a senior Bush Administration official at the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C... The FMCSA program will allow approximately 100 registered truck carriers from Mexico to travel beyond the current restricted U.S. border zone. The Teamsters union has asked a federal appeals court to keep the program from going forward... "The last-minute attempts to block the program are just the desperate efforts of a few people who want to protect their own turf," McCown said. "We've been over this for two decades. What they fail to tell you is that trucks from Mexico that were grandfathered before a moratorium in the 1980s travel down our roads - without incident - every day, and have done so for years"... "What these people are saying is that 10 million professional drivers and a half million U.S. companies will be overwhelmed by a few hundred trucks from Mexico. More important is the fact that for the first time ever, Mexico must open its markets to U.S. trucks. My money is on the American truckers," he said...
* DeFazio says Administration indicated to him project would begin Friday
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker -6 Sept 2007: -- Three minutes before it was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, a conference call by John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admininstration, to provide an update on the Mexico truck program was cancelled... Less than one hour after the conference call was cancelled, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., issued a news release saying that the Bush Administration “has indicated to me that tomorrow they will open the U.S. border to 100-Mexican-domociled trucking companies.” ...
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