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BORDER's TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA/Mexico
* DC - FMCSA to open border to long-haul trucking from Mexico
(Photo: Truck of Mexican company Olympics crosses Puente Internacional Comercio Mundial while approaching border crossing into U.S.)
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by Jami Jones -9 Jan 2015: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will soon be accepting applications from Mexico-based trucking companies to operate long-haul in the United States – in spite of a recent Department of Transportation Inspector General report stating the pilot program had failed to prove that any and all Mexico-based trucks could safely operate long-haul in the U.S.A. ... The agency reported to Congress that the performance of the pilot program participants – and 351 enterprise motor carriers, which are 55 percent Mexico-owned, U.S.A. based companies that were not of the pilot program – justifies no changes to the regulations... That allows for the agency to continue accepting applications from Mexico-based motor carriers. The regulations still stipulate they will have to complete a pre-authority safety audit, and the public will have the opportunity to review the applications and comment... At the conclusion of the cross-border pilot program on Oct. 10, 2014, only 15 motor carriers participated in the program. FMCSA estimated it needed 46 motor carriers to produce a statistically valid sample. Only two of the 15 participating motor carriers generated any sort of traffic at the border, and the lion’s share of that traffic remained in the border zone...
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