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Feb 25, 2009

MEXICAN TRUCKS ... Adios? * USA - Budget bill could end cross-border program

Now under an Obama administration, it's more likely the two-year pilot project will come to an end

Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -24 Feb 2009: -- America's controversial, but ongoing Mexican cross-border truck program may once again come to a halt if an omnibus budget bill in the U.S. House introduced Monday is passed... The program, active since 2007, allows select Mexican carriers to haul freight beyond the longstanding 25-mile commercial restriction zone at the border.
Though Congress tried to down the Bush administration's pilot program to open the border in the 2008 appropriations, the Bush administration found a loophole in language that prohibited the "establishment" of a program, saying since the program was already established, there was no ban on continuing it... Then, in September of last year, a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to end the program, but then-President Bush vetoed that bill and DOT officials said they would extend the program for another two years... (Bush ignored unions and special interest groups that tried to halt the Mexican truck pilot. It's unlikely Obama will do the same)

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