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MEXICAN TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Trucking program proves locally unpopular
McAllen,TX,USA -The Brownsville Herald, by Sean Gaffney -August 10, 2008: -- A looming Congressional showdown over a controversial program that allows Mexican trucks free rein on U.S. highways threatens one local company's plans... Harlingen-based Truss World Inc. is the only Rio Grande Valley company enrolled in the Mexican truck pilot program, which allows Mexican trucks to travel anywhere in the United States... Truss World owner George Long hoped helping to bypass the middleman would increase efficiency and reduce shipping costs... But fierce and vocal opposition from trucking unions and some politicians has made clients and trucking companies reluctant to invest in the project. For Long, the opposition has meant none of his clients will agree to use the program... Stage Coach Cartage & Distribution L.P. in El Paso is the only other Texas-based company participating in the project. Operating seven trucks, the company routinely ships plastics and other products across the border, owner Scott McClaughlin said... The program has been successful and he hopes the project will emerge unscathed from the latest round of Congressional wrangling, McClaughlin said. If it ends, however, the company's investment was too small to cause that great of a loss... At Truss World, the operation is dramatically smaller. Long, a Houston-based lawyer, occasionally drives the company's one truck across the country himself... With the program, however, he's sure that expansion is inevitable. On a recent trip he unloaded cargo on the U.S. side, drove across the border and told the Mexican company that would ultimately receive the goods he could have delivered the product directly and cheaper...
* Mexican Truck Access Not Good For US Truckers
USA -MassLogic -11 Aug 2008: -- Congress does not seem to happy with the fact that the Bush administration, quite sneakily, announced that it was extending the test project that gives Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways... The committee that approved this bill feel that the program deserves more time and that it has been a successful program to date. They made this announcement on the first day of Congress’ summer recess... According to the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, this will be addressed clearly and quickly when Congress reconvenes in September... Truckers in the United States are not happy with the Mexican drivers that will work for less money that are costing them their jobs. Add in the current costs of fuel and the fact that Mexican drivers and equipment are not held to the same high safety standards that the United States drivers are held to and the drivers here in the states are feeling the squeeze trying to keep their businesses running...
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