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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - OOIDA says Mexican truck stats don’t add up
The argument tossed out by FMCSA that Mexican trucks are “safer” than U.S. trucks took a big hit in the latest court filing by OOIDA in its lawsuit seeking to stop the cross-border program
Grain Valley,MO,USA - Land Line Magazine -Dec. 5, 2007: -- ... Officials with the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration and the Department of Transportation continue to say that statistics prove the Mexico-based trucks are actually safer than their U.S. counterparts... However, statistics on inspections of Mexican motor carriers participating in the cross-border program with the U.S. tell a very different story according to a reply brief filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association... Monday, Dec. 3, the Association filed the brief in its challenge of the cross-border program with the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco... In the brief, Rick Craig, OOIDA’s Director of Regulatory Affairs dissects data from FMCSA’s own SafeStat database collected and analyzed by OOIDA staff and a paralegal at The Cullen Law Firm, OOIDA’s legal counsel... Safety inspection reports were collected on four of the seven carriers participating in the cross-border program at the time the brief was filed... Catherine O’Mara, a paralegal with The Cullen Law Firm of Washington, DC, compiled the safety inspection reports on the Mexican motor carriers and compiled a summary of selected SafeStat Data that really shines a light on Craig’s assertion... O’Mara provided a table summarizing total inspections with violations, total violations, driver out-of-service orders, vehicle out-of-service orders, number of power units and the number of violations per vehicle... In the span of one year, Sept. 21, 2006, through Sept. 21, 2007, the four Mexican motor carriers amassed more than 1,700 violations. One of the companies averaged more than 112 violations per truck for the 10 power units in the fleet during that year..
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