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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* Truckers Protest Program Allowing Mexican Trucking Companies To Deliver Cargo Across U.S. San Diego,CA,USA -All Headline News, by Linda Young -September 6, 2007: -- Truck drivers staged a second day of protests at border crossings to Mexico over the Bush administration's new program that allows Mexican trucking companies to haul their cargo to destinations across America... Truckers rallied at a border crossing waving flags and signs protesting the pilot program that will allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to haul cargo from Mexico anywhere in the U.S... (Photo by the 48th ronin)
* Breaking through Teamsters' roadblocksThis controversy should have run out of gas long ago. Now let's roll...
Indianapolis,IND,USA -The Indianapolis Star, by Ruben Navarrette -September 5, 2007: -- I've hit a fork in the road in my thinking concerning the unrelenting campaign by the Teamsters to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways... Actually, it is Mexican truckers who need looking out for. Even after NAFTA's passage in the early 1990s, they have been on the short end of a double standard. Canadian trucking companies have had full access to U.S. roads, but Mexican trucks could travel only about 20 miles inside the country and then had to transfer their cargo to U.S. trucks. Under NAFTA, Mexican truckers were supposed to be allowed to haul cargo throughout the United States without having to make a transfer. That should have been good news for Mexican truckers and anyone else who thinks the current system is terribly inefficient... But it's bad news for the Teamsters, which have been fighting to preserve the status quo. So far, the union keeps striking out. First, it tried and failed to keep Mexican trucks out of the negotiations over NAFTA. Then it tried and failed to lobby Congress to ban Mexican trucks and had to settle for Congress setting restrictions. And then last week, in a last-ditch attempt to head off a Bush administration plan to welcome Mexican trucks onto U.S. roads, it asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency injunction; the court refused... So now, 15 years after NAFTA was signed, the Mexican trucks are poised to finally hit U.S. roadways -- as soon as the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation signs off and the Mexican government reciprocates by issuing permits to U.S. trucking companies. Both could happen this week... Excellent. The Teamsters were always in the wrong, and the union only made things worse by taking the low road. What they've been fighting for is the chance to cut in on someone else's deal. Think about it. These trucks load up in Mexico to head north to fulfill a contract. Why should they have to unload and give U.S. drivers a piece of the business? Let the Teamsters get their own contracts instead of trying to poach someone else's... (Photo by Rohan Phillips - "Sunset")
* Border trucking may be doomed
September may be the month San Antonio has awaited for nearly 12 years
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express-News, by David Hendricks -5 Sept 2007: -- Cross-border trucking finally may be at hand. Even if the first Mexican trucking companies receive their permits soon to start a one-year pilot program, the experiment probably won't last long... For San Antonio, NAFTA meant a bigger role in the distribution and warehousing industries if truck drivers did not have to stop and exchange northbound and southbound loads in the U.S.-Mexico border zone... Ever since the Clinton administration ordered delays in the NAFTA provision, San Antonio has lobbied more than any other U.S. city to see cross-border trucking started because it has the most to gain economically... Actually, all of North America has much to gain. Cross-border trucking promises to reduce the inefficiency of the border exchange of containers between carriers and drivers. Time and money would be saved by a smoother flow of raw materials and products...
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express-News, by David Hendricks -5 Sept 2007: -- Cross-border trucking finally may be at hand. Even if the first Mexican trucking companies receive their permits soon to start a one-year pilot program, the experiment probably won't last long... For San Antonio, NAFTA meant a bigger role in the distribution and warehousing industries if truck drivers did not have to stop and exchange northbound and southbound loads in the U.S.-Mexico border zone... Ever since the Clinton administration ordered delays in the NAFTA provision, San Antonio has lobbied more than any other U.S. city to see cross-border trucking started because it has the most to gain economically... Actually, all of North America has much to gain. Cross-border trucking promises to reduce the inefficiency of the border exchange of containers between carriers and drivers. Time and money would be saved by a smoother flow of raw materials and products...
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