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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* Companies aren't rushing to join cross-border trucking program
San Diego,Cal,USA -The San Diego Union Tribune, by Paul M. Krawzak & Sandra Dibble -May 18, 2008: -- When the Bush administration launched the controversial program last year, officials hailed it as a historic opportunity that would benefit businesses and consumers in both nations... But the program has grown more slowly than government officials expected, raising questions about the demand among trucking companies for an open border and providing ammunition for critics... Although the yearlong program is two-thirds over, it has failed to draw anywhere near the maximum 100 carriers allowed from each country. Just 22 carriers from Mexico and nine from the United States have signed up... Participants generally are not traveling far into the interior of either country, even though that is what the program was designed to allow...
* Of 5,842 border crossings made by Mexican carriers between the start of the program Sept. 6, 2007, and April 21..-* Only 680, or 12 percent, went beyond the border area, U.S. officials said.
* 100: maximum number of carriers allowed to sign up for the program from each country
* 22: carriers fromMexico thathave signed up
* 9: carriers fromthe United States that have signed up Based on extensive interviews with U.S. carriers
* Few are venturing into the Mexican interior.
U.S. transportation officials say no accidents or major safety incidents have occurred, but they acknowledged there still are not enough carriers in the pilot program... John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said recently it would be “difficult to make a statistically valid sample without having more involvement.”.. Critics contend the program is unsafe and illegal... Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, attributes reluctance to join the program to political and union opposition, as well as the challenge of lining up customers... But he believes it will grow over time... No decision has been made within the Department of Transportation about whether to seek an extension of the program, Hill said... (PHOTOS by HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune - 1 · California Highway Patrol inspector Micahel Poladian watched a truck passing through the Otay Mesa inspection facility - 2 · Juan Leyva, a border inspector with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, walked past a truck at the Otay Mesa facility. Trucks in the cross-border pilot program are inspected every 90 days)
* Pennsylvania House panel votes for Bush to end cross-border program
PENN,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -May 16, 2008: -- The Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee unanimously approved a measure that calls for President Bush to comply with federal law regarding trucks from Mexico... Sponsored by state Rep. Dan Surra, D-Elk, the resolution urges the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation to obey recently enacted federal law... The pilot project was started in September 2007. It authorizes tractor-trailers from 11 Mexico-based trucking operations to cross the border and travel throughout the U.S...
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