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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * USA - On the North American Roads
* First certified Mexican truck crosses U.S. borderLaredo,TX,USA -e Trucker, by Randy Grider -9 Set 2007: -- At approximately 12:50 a.m. (CDT) Saturday, Sept. 8, the first Mexico-domiciled truck authorized under the Bush administration’s pilot program to transport cargo within the United States cleared federal inspections at the U.S. border in Laredo bound for North Carolina... In light of the special occasion, border agents had moved the 2007 Freightliner owned by Transportes Olympic of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to the front of the line for an extensive inspection... After more than two hours of inspections, driver Luis Gonzalez headed north on I-35 and less than 30 minutes later crossed the 25-mile commercial zone that has been the boundary for Mexican trucks since the United States closed its border to its southern neighbors in 1982... (Photo: Fernando Paez owns Transportes Olympic, which on Thursday, Sept. 6, became the first Mexican carrier to receive authority from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to operate in the United States under the agency's new pilot program)
* Hoffa: Mexican truck program 'sucker-punches' U.S.
Houston,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle, by BILL HENSEL JR -Sept. 9, 2007: -- Calling a new pilot program opening the border to Mexican trucks dangerous, Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said Saturday in Houston that the union will lobby to cut its funding... Telling a women's conference in Houston that the effort is dangerous, Hoffa said money for the new program came from somewhere and the union will press Congress to stop it...
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In recent years, Mexican trucks crossing the border with the United States were no more likely to be taken out of service because of safety or other violations than American trucks
In recent years, Mexican trucks crossing the border with the United States were no more likely to be taken out of service because of safety or other violations than American trucksAccording to preliminary results of a review of thousands of Texas Department of Public Safety inspection reports
Dallas,TX,USA -The New York Times (NY), by GRETEL C. KOVACH -September 9, 2007: -- Mexican truckers are expected to begin transporting goods throughout the United States in coming days, after a decision Thursday night by the Transportation Department that provisionally lifted restrictions confining them to the border region... The Teamsters, the Sierra Club and other groups said they would continue their legal fight to stop the program because of “serious safety, environmental, smuggling and security concerns”... A federal appeals court had rejected an emergency motion the groups filed to stop the program. On Friday, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association also petitioned for further review of the program... But not all trucking interests oppose the program. A spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, a national group representing trucking companies, said they had concern over safety standards but thought over all that critics of the program were “exaggerating the dangers"... In recent years, Mexican trucks crossing the border with the United States were no more likely to be taken out of service because of safety or other violations than American trucks, according to preliminary results of a review of thousands of Texas Department of Public Safety inspection reports. The review was conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, Austin... Trade with Mexico has quadrupled under Nafta, to $332 billion in 2006 from $81 billion in 1993, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce... “This pilot project is a long overdue step toward reducing congestion and air pollution at the U.S.-Mexico border while promoting growth and jobs,” Thomas J. Donohue, president of the chamber, said in a statement. “The United States promised under Nafta to open its border to Mexican trucks — with full reciprocity for U.S. carriers — and it’s time we kept our word”... (Photo by Denis Poroy/Associated Press - A California Highway Patrol inspector in San Diego examined a truck entering the United States from Mexico on Thursday, the day border restrictions were lifted)
Dallas,TX,USA -The New York Times (NY), by GRETEL C. KOVACH -September 9, 2007: -- Mexican truckers are expected to begin transporting goods throughout the United States in coming days, after a decision Thursday night by the Transportation Department that provisionally lifted restrictions confining them to the border region... The Teamsters, the Sierra Club and other groups said they would continue their legal fight to stop the program because of “serious safety, environmental, smuggling and security concerns”... A federal appeals court had rejected an emergency motion the groups filed to stop the program. On Friday, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association also petitioned for further review of the program... But not all trucking interests oppose the program. A spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, a national group representing trucking companies, said they had concern over safety standards but thought over all that critics of the program were “exaggerating the dangers"... In recent years, Mexican trucks crossing the border with the United States were no more likely to be taken out of service because of safety or other violations than American trucks, according to preliminary results of a review of thousands of Texas Department of Public Safety inspection reports. The review was conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, Austin... Trade with Mexico has quadrupled under Nafta, to $332 billion in 2006 from $81 billion in 1993, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce... “This pilot project is a long overdue step toward reducing congestion and air pollution at the U.S.-Mexico border while promoting growth and jobs,” Thomas J. Donohue, president of the chamber, said in a statement. “The United States promised under Nafta to open its border to Mexican trucks — with full reciprocity for U.S. carriers — and it’s time we kept our word”... (Photo by Denis Poroy/Associated Press - A California Highway Patrol inspector in San Diego examined a truck entering the United States from Mexico on Thursday, the day border restrictions were lifted)
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