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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Fight doesn't stall trucks at border
Sides haggling over wording of law passed in December - It all comes down to the word "establish"
USA -FREIGHT TEAMSTERS.blogspot.com -January 11, 2008: -- In the latest battle over cross-border trucking, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Teamsters and Congress are at loggerheads over whether to allow trucks from Mexico to cross freely into the United States... The Transportation Department has decided to continue its pilot program despite a law against it that Congress passed in December. DOT's argument is that the law prohibits the government from spending any money to "establish" the program but it began the program in September and simply is continuing it... The law says: "None of the funds made available under this act may be used to establish a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico"... "The lawlessness, recklessness and sheer arrogance of the Bush administration just blows my mind," Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said in a statement...
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