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Jul 19, 2014

BORDER TROUBLES * USA / Mexico

* Arizona - Truckers, drivers get inside look at border inspections


(Photo: An ADOT officer stands at the entrance to one of the vehicle bays at the Mariposa Port of Entry) Nogales,ARI,USA -The Nogales International, by Murphy Woodhouse -15 July 2014: -- The crowd of roughly 70 people sat waiting Saturday morning, more or less patiently, for a presentation to begin at the Arizona Department of Transportation Enforcement and Compliance Division (ADOT/ECD) offices near the Mariposa Port of Entry commercial vehicle inspection bays... This was a group uniquely practiced in the art of waiting... They were truckers and bus drivers, people whose work takes them back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border via a process that can involve long delays in line or at an inspection terminal. However, instead of moving people and produce last Saturday, they were at the port of entry for the second annual Commercial Vehicle Outreach Rodeo, an event put on by ADOT/ECD, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the U.S. Department of Transportation... Armando Goncalvez, CBP’s trade program director at the port, proposed that a working group be set up between area bus companies and government agencies operating at the border to discuss ways to speed up inspections for passenger buses... After the presentation, attendees went to the inspection bays, where they were given a hands-on look at the inspection process with ADOT officials as their guides... While underneath trucks and buses like the ones they drive, commercial vehicle operators got to see things from the point of view of the government officials they sometimes think of as impediments to timely deliveries...

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