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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* Safety Being Swept Away in the Flood of Trucks Crossing the BorderWashington,DC,USA -Public Citizen -19 Oct 2007: -- Five Mexico-based motor carriers have currently been allowed to send 15 trucks throughout our nation’s highways, according to a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration alert today... The Bush administration is rushing ahead with this rapidly expanding NAFTA trucks pilot program without sufficient safety guarantees. Some of these egregious oversights include the following:
• Full access has not been granted to the Mexican license record database. Border facilities have this access, but more than 15% of the time the records are missing entirely.
• The Department of Transportation (DOT) just assumes all trucks used by Mexico-based companies built after 1996 are up to U.S. standards, even though data reveal that 1/5 of such vehicles do not meet minimum safety standards
• The DOT says it will just rely on statements from Mexico-based carriers that their vehicles comply with U.S. safety standards, even though federal law clearly states that such certification can be made only by the vehicle manufacturer... (Photo: Jose Cortez, US DOT inspector, put and Out of Service Order in a Mexican truck at border inspection)
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