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TRUCKING ON THE BORDER * Mexico / USA: Long-haul driver and shuttle drivers do works
* Sonora / Mexico: Springboard keeps produce moving
-- Amid the growl of gear shifting and the high-pitched beeps of tractor-trailers backing up, Xavier Bautista hopped into his truck and hitched it onto the waiting trailer... The well-practiced maneuver came from years of daily hook-ups at the Nogales, Sonora station of the Confederation of Agricultural Associations of Sinaloa (CAADES, for its initials in Spanish), where Bautista picks up loads of fruits and vegetables hauled from Mexican farms and shuttles them across the border... The 20-acre facility, about 10 miles south of the U.S.A. border and a few hundred yards south of the Mexican customs station on Federal Highway 15, acts as a springboard for more than one-third of the produce handled at warehouses in Nogales and Rio Rico... While workers in Santa Cruz County are hustling to repack produce and send it off to myriad destinations in the United States (of A.), the CAADES station acts as a mirror image of those efforts, with long-haul drivers racing to bring in loads and shuttle drivers hustling off to get the produce to warehouses in Arizona...
... Explaining the new situation works well for long-haul drivers, who can pass their loads to shuttle drivers who know how to navigate the border zone better... Using the shuttle drivers also allows the long-haul drivers to rest in their trucks before making the journey back to the farms to pick up another load...
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico - The Nogales International, by Curt Prendergast - Apr 24, 2015
Labels: border solutions
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