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MEXICANS TRUCKS * USA - Truckers pass safety test
Too few carriers join DOT’s cross-border project for ‘statistically significant analysis’
Newark,New Jersey,USA -The Pacific Shipper, by ARI NATTER -November 17, 2008: -- The Mexican truckers enrolled in the cross-border trucking program have a good safety record, sometimes better than their U.S.... The report — written by Mortimer L. Downey III, a former Clinton administration deputy transportation secretary; Kenneth M. Mead, former DOT inspector general; and former Republican member of Congress from Arizona James T. Kolbe — maybe too little, too late to save the program when the Obama administration and a new Congress take office next year... Members of Congress and the Teamsters union have strongly opposed the one-year program, which Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters wants to extend for up to three more years. But with Democratic Sen. Barack Obama about to enter the White House and Democrats extending their majority in both the House and Senate, the DOT experiment is likely to end next year... The report found no accidents or crashes involving the Mexican carriers in the demonstration project... There were 7,000 driver inspections and 1,400 truck inspections, in addition to safety checks made every time a Mexican truck enters the United States... (Photo: Trucks wait to cross into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico)Labels: mexicans' trucks debate
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