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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - DOT inspection fails to impress
The staged inspection of the first Mexico-based truck to deliver a load in the U.S. as part of the Bush administration’s cross-border program proved nothing, according to numerous opponents of the program
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -Oct. 18, 2007: -- ... Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez staged a press conference in Washington, DC, Oct. 17, along with Luis Tellez, Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transportation... Two trucks were inspected during the press conference, one from Mexico and one from the U.S.The Mexican truck came from Transportes Olympic, one of the first companies admitted to the DOT’s controversial cross-border trucking pilot program... The DOT claims the point of the press conference was to demonstrate the safety of the Mexican trucks and to urge Congress to stop its efforts to halt the pilot program... Opponents came out strong, calling the staged inspections everything from a “diversion” to being outright “insulting”... Of the 12 appropriations bills that will fund the federal government for the next year, President Bush has threatened to veto 11 of them – one of which may be the transportation appropriations bill... (Associated Press - Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, right, followed by Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transportation Luis Tellez, second from right, walk around the front of a tractor-trailer, during a safety inspection demonstration, Wednesday, Oct. 17, in front of the Transportation Department in Washington)
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