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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * USA - Expanding Cross-Border Trucking with Mexico Benefits American Consumers
Washington,DC,USA -The Heritage Foundation, by James M. Roberts -February 17, 2009: -- One of President Obama's campaign promises was to "upgrade" and "retool" the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). An excellent way to start would be for him to make the Bush Administration's pilot truck program with Mexico permanent... As The Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady reported, "Mexican trucking companies [had] a long history of operating in the U.S. and with no notably inferior safety record" until 1995, "when Bill Clinton issued an executive order--in violation of NAFTA, which he had signed into law--to stop Mexican long-haul trucks from crossing the border. Mr. Clinton was responding to pressure from Teamsters, who didn't want any new competition. He cited safety concerns--things like substandard drivers and vehicles--which to this day have never been supported by evidence"... Since then, trucks from Mexico have largely been confined to U.S. border areas... Notwithstanding fierce opposition by the Teamsters and other U.S. organized labor groups, in 2007 the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) approved a NAFTA-consistent "Cross Border Demonstration Project"... "27 Mexican carriers with 107 trucks" full access to the U.S. road network. Until then, USDOT regulations had required all Mexican trucks to unload their cargoes at warehouses close to the border where they were re-loaded into U.S. trucks for onward shipment throughout the country...
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