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MEXICANS' TRUCKS' DEBATE * USA - Irrational fears doom cross-border trucking
Irrational opponents, by definition, can't be appeased. But credit the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with trying
San Antonio,TX,USA -The San Antonio Express-News -17 Nov 2007: -- When the Department of Transportation finally initiated a test program for a long-delayed trucking provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement in September, opponents rolled out every timeworn, irrational objection they could muster... Never mind that the test program required comprehensive safety and environmental audits and quarterly follow-ups by U.S. inspectors, driver background checks and certification of insurance from U.S.-licensed firms... And never mind that the U.S. border with Canada has long been open to two-way, long-haul trucking. The intrepid International Brotherhood of Teamsters is afraid of what even this limited test might demonstrate on the southern border. So it made sure its friends in Congress pulled the funding plug on the program... The latest move is to install global positioning system tracking devices on the handful of Mexican trucks participating in the test... So, don't count on such a rational approach to pacify the objections of the Teamsters and their allies. It will, at least, demonstrate how unreasonable their opposition is to a sensible test program...
* USA - 7th firm gets OK to truck across border
El Paso,TX.USA -El Paso Times, by Louie Gilot -18 Nov 2007: -- Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, or GCC, a Mexico cement maker with several plants in the United States, has received a permit to send trucks into the United States under an ongoing pilot program to open the border to Mexico trucks, company officials said last week... GCC is the first company from the state of Chihuahua to receive the permit. So far, seven Mexican companies are enrolled and four U.S. companies are allowed to send trucks into Mexico... GCC officials said that they were interested in shipping specialty cement, but that they still had to secure insurance and take care of other paperwork before they actually send a truck beyond the border...Labels: mexican's trucks
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