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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NAFTA * USA / Mexico: Border debates
* DC - Truck pilot opponents rally as program winds down
Washington,DC,USA -JOC, by Mark Szakonyi -Oct 02, 2014: -- The U.S. federal government won’t tell Congress until later this month the results of a controversial pilot program tracking Mexican trucking companies hauling goods across the border, but opponents are already railing against continuing or expanding the initiative... The Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association said the three-year pilot failed to include enough Mexican trucking companies and the majority of the data came from only two carriers. The controversy around the pilot highlights the broader challenges Mexico and U.S.A. continue to face in implementing trucking liberalization elements contained in the North American Free Trade Agreement 20 years after its passage... NAFTA allowed freedom of cross-border trucking but political opposition from the Teamsters union and trucking groups have prevented the clause from being implemented. The continuing restrictions mean that northbound cargo, for example, must be cross-docked from a Mexico truck to a U.S.A. truck, adding time and cost, as opposed to driving straight through to an ultimate U.S.A. destination where the Mexican trucker could then theoretically pick a southbound load back to Mexico... Few Mexican trucking companies want to haul goods any farther than the cross-docks in U.S.A. border towns, largely because it’s tricky to find loads to haul back. Trucking companies waste fuel and time without so-called backhaul loads. Under NAFTA, Mexican (or Canadian) drivers can’t move freight from one U.S.A. destination to another, and U.S.A. drivers are hemmed in by the same cabotage rules when operating in Mexico and Canada... U.S.A. trucking companies aren’t scrambling to haul goods farther than Mexico border towns, either...
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