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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* Truckers fret over NAFTA “renegotiation” talk
Wahington,DC,USA -Logistics Management, by John D. Schulz -14 March 2008: -- Is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dying? Both Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama have made campaign promises to “renegotiate” the 14-year-old trade agreement that generally has resulted in a boom for U.S. trucking and railroad interests... Since NAFTA was adopted in 1994 under the first Clinton administration, it basically created open trade, free of duties and tariffs, among the U.S., Mexico and Canada. But both Democratic candidates have sounded a protectionist tone during their campaign, threatening to renegotiate NAFTA and other free trade agreements to make them more favorable on labor and environmental grounds... It’s hard to tell whether this is merely campaign rhetoric or an actual threat to NAFTA existence. One thing is for sure. Any talk of renegotiating NAFTA makes truckers nervous... It also has been good for the U.S. trucking industry. Some companies, such as Indianapolis-based Celadon and Con-way’s CFI unit, garner more than 40 percent of their revenue from the lucrative north-south trade in and out of Mexico... For their part, Mexican carriers feel discriminated because they perceive their fleets have to meet a higher level of safety requirements than U.S. carriers. So neither side is terribly happy. Combined with the political uncertainty, carrier executives on both sides of the border say privately, the demonstration project is demonstrably a loser... Considering only five of the more than 700,000 interstate trucking companies and approximately 400,000 intrastate companies registered to operate in the U.S. have applied and only 45 of the 8 million large trucks registered in the United States are actually operating in Mexico, the numbers speak for themselves... Any changes to NAFTA would further dilute interest and would probably mean less north-south trade among the three NAFTA nations. That’s because some business currently in Mexico could conceivably move to either Asia or Latin America, hurting U.S. truckers even more...
* New cross-border participant’s safety stats lackluster - One of the newest participant’s safety records tells a different tale
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -March 12, 2008: -- Despite assurances by Department of Transportation officials that Mexican companies in the cross-border program are squeaky clean, one of the newest participant’s safety records tells a different tale... Avomex International received its authority to operate beyond the border zone Feb. 29. That is in spite of a past riddled with safety violations... The motor carrier’s safety records were highlighted by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in the Association’s lawsuit seeking to stop the cross-border program... In one of the court filings, OOIDA’s Director of Regulatory Affairs Rick Craig pointed out that in the 12-month period ending Sept. 21, 2007, Avomex’s five trucks at that time had amassed 206 total violations in 172 inspections. That averages out to just slightly more than 41 violations per truck... That research was completed after Avomex was announced as having passed the Pre-Authorization Safety Audit...
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