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Sep 24, 2015

BORDER NEWS * USA / Mexico

* Arizona - Border truckers see results through organizing

-- After years of failed attempts, members of the border trucking industry have come together as the Safe Border Trucking Association in an effort to improve business and address issues they say affect the region’s competitiveness... The nonprofit group has 30 members in the Unites States and Mexico, representing about 300 trucks, who are involved in cross-border trade in the Southern Arizona region... The group coalesced a year ago around the issue of what they considered to be excessive inspections at the border by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry... When compared with ports of entry in Texas and California, Arizona had a disproportionately high number of Level 1 inspections — a complete check of both the driver and equipment — along with fines and out-of-service orders, state transportation officials have said... After a proposed blockade of the Mariposa Port of Entry last year by Mexican drivers, federal and state officials came to the table and the association was able to focus the voices of a lot of frustrated people...
(Photo by A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star - A tractor-trailer drives away from Nogales’ Mariposa Port of Entry, which grew from four to eight commercial lanes in recent years) -- Nogales, Az, USA - The Arizona Daily Star, by Luis F. Carrasco - September 19, 2015

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