Posted on 04/12/2007 1:27:39 AM PDT by Rottweilerson
Despite congressional opposition, the Bush administration is fully committed to beginning within weeks a pilot test that will allow Mexican trucks to operate freely across the U.S.
A spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Ian Grossman, told WND the agency plans to grant the first authority for a Mexican trucking company to operate its long-haul rigs throughout the U.S. as early as the end of this month.
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And these people are wondering why they lost in 11-2006. Crud like this does not get Joe Sixpack to vote for you.
El presidente is securing his legacy...........
North American Union is being phased in and WE THE PEOPLE have no say in it at all.
Thanks heavens I voted for King George! This might not have happened if we'd elected a Dem!
And there is nothing we can do about it. I voted twice for this President, and he has let me down big time. We are being invaded and overun.
Doesn’t it just give you a warm fuzzy knowing that you held your nose and did the right thing for the Republicans. Does for me too.
Looks like the elite Republican Insurance guys, and a few big trucking company owners will be happy. If you are insured, you will have to be covered for this new risk. Money from you, to the few.
HOLA Bush!
Does this mean the MX drivers have CDL’s??? Or we don’t need them anymore?
Just another step towards making a unified and single North American country.
Big business run amok.
Why is president Bush so eager to have this happen?
Does it also mean that the CHP will require their officers to be bilingual?
You’ve got that right, then when you complain about this and the amnesty B.S. and how this kind of crap makes one abstain from voting you get hammered by crazies talking about it could be worse if the dems have their say.
How?
Looks like at least a few libs are starting to get it as well. They have to choose between the union vote and the illegal alien/razista solidarity vote. Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Not the first time I’m glad I’m not a lib.
On the other side of the aisle, I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard some alleged conservative say “What’s good fer bidness is good fer ‘Merka.”
We have to get away from this idea that “free-market fundamentalism” is synonymous with “conservative” and that profits for business supercede every other consideration.
Mexican trucks turn our highways into slaughterhouses and drive our owner-opeators into bankruptcy?
Hey, good for business.
Cheap illegal labor destroys our working class and feeds crime.
Hey, good for business.
Yahoo rats out dissidents to the Red Chinese?
Hey, good for business.
Dubya and Condi soft-soap the Saudi Arabian terror cult?
Hey, good for business.
If this keeps up we won’t have a country.
Is that good for business?
Bush is simple when it comes to the Mexicans. I dont know where he gets the idea that selling out to the Mexicans is the thing to do. He is totally nuts on this subject. Yet: are the Democrats any better? I doubt it.
How could things get worse under democrats? We not only get mexicans we getmore Visa’s for Islamics, and we get to be appeasers. We get our ,military destroyed and we get higher taxes.
Bush is no prize when it comes to Mexicans,but he is better than Democrats when it comes to other things.
One consolation: Mexican trucks are likely to take a far heavier toll among moonbat Hondas and VWs than among our upright American SUVs.
Now, if they can just bag a few fatcat limos......
I guess the concept of Homeland Security is right out the window so companies can save a few $$ on shipping. Not to mention the potential for illegals to come in by the truckload. At $5K per head, transporting illegals is much more lucatative than any other cargo they might carry. What a joke! Its really hard to be a true believer when a supposedly conservative President champions disasterous policies like this.
“One consolation: Mexican trucks are likely to take a far heavier toll among moonbat Hondas and VWs than among our upright American SUVs.”
Honda’s are extremely popular with Mexicans, and VW’s and SUV’s with Liberals. At least in S. California I have observed this phenomenon.
Oh this is good to wake up to..........the proposed I-69 corridor is practically in my back yard and if the truck drivers drive anything like the taxi drivers down there.......HELP! :(
The original part of NAFTA covering cross-border transportation applied to trucks and buses.
Are you curious as to what is going on regarding buses?
A couple of months ago in another thread I said that all the old construction workers that got undercut on wages by the illegals were now truck drivers because the illegals couldn’t get those jobs in the US. I guess now they will be able to legally drive their Mexican trucks in and pick up our trucker’s jobs. Just damn!
This is where President Bush and I take separate roads....what the heck is the White House thinking???
Such a disappointment you have been to millions who contributed to your two presidential campaigns.
You are no friend of America in regards to keeping America free of illegal (and too often criminal) invaders.
You are a (hemispheric) globalist.
Ditto.
Last night on the local news they showed Troopers that investigated American trucks and truck drivers and took them off the road for different violations, will they do the same with the mexican drivers and trucks or will they have aclu complain of violations against their civil rights as they go on our highways killing Americans?
Bush is being unbelievably stupid.
Oh, I’m positive they will have a whole different set of rules for the Mexicans. Will the Mexicans have to keep safety logs? I doubt it. They will probably have to hire bi-lingual staff for the weigh-in stations, too.
I wonder if Canada can keep them out?
The tire old scare tactic of vote for the lying rino or you will get a rat is not working on many of us anymore. The republicans in some cases are gettign just that bad.
Non-trucking illegals are never required to have a valid driver's license, insurance, legal entry, so why should the Mexican drivers be required to do any different?
The MSM and W fail terribly at the mention of 'drop-and-hook' where valid US truckers can pick up the loaded trailer (after safety and load inspection) in the border zones and take it to its destination.
Then empty miles can be paid to return the trailer to the border area or return it with a designated load to central and South America.
A load of illegals is worth a lot more than a load of fruit.
Sure, it sounds bad...but it's all part of Bush's war on terror, ya know...Homeland Security, etc.
Can you see the tv talk shows now. Dead families and beautiful American children strewn along freeways hit by Invader Trucks with bad brakes, drunk drivers and major truck safety violations. The average Mexican truck is 1980’s vintage. Smog Smog smog.....
Indeed, it really is happening here on the Mexican Border. A year ago, I would have not have believed this could happen.
My wake-up call was the Union Pacific railroad asking for an option on a easement to run thru our farm. At that time, we were hearing rumors a road was going to go thru the farm, too.
Now we find out the road is called a corridor. And sometimes, it is referred to as a truck route and other times the bypass road.
It is not “THE” main corridor for our CANAMEX route to Mexico, but I think, it is to be route that is to be used until “THE” route is built.
I only see all this as a benefit for globists and China.
China, Hutchinson Whompoa, is teamed with the Union Pacific to bid on the rail and the huge new port to be built in Baja, Punta Colonet, where millions and millions of containers are to be shipped in and transported up CANAMEX. That why the trucks.......
Newsflash: Mexican trucks must have insurance by a federally-approved carrier.
A couple of years ago I recall a discussion of NAFTA and outsourcing where some in industries like trucking and transport said that they weren't worried about losing their jobs or businesses because they were in a safe business. After all, how could transporting goods over U.S. roads be outsourced? They were also of the opinion that outsourcing was just a natural outcome in a free enterprise environment when the american employees demanded too much in pay in benefits. Hope you guys in trucking and transportation have an alternate plan for making a living because this will eventually undercut you.
Last week trucks I was between two trucks with the one behind me way to close for safety. Crazy to have these rundown trucks adding to our traffic problems.
This IS worse than if the Democrats were in charge....
Even Democrats couldn’t hurt the GOP the way Bush is.
Just curious . . . do you understand this has been in the works since 1994?
Yes, but Bush’s open borders policy tied in with Mexican trucks having full access to U.S. highways throw an especially bad stink on the whole thing.
BTW, are U.S. truckers going to have the exact same access to Mexican highways?
You can bet your last dollar that will be the case unless the underwriter / insurance carrier is based in the US where LEO's can immediately access a verified database as to whether or not the truck and the driver are insured.
More in point: People are required to enter the country legally....and about 20 million so far haven't adhered to that law, have they?
More from the article:
WND also reported Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has introduced the NAFTA Trucking Safety Act, designed to block the test until current FMSCA regulations regarding Mexican trucks operating beyond commercial zones along the international border are clarified and strengthened.
The Mexican trucking company can begin operating trucks in the U.S. immediately, once the FMCSA grants the authority, Grossman told WND.
Grossman explained granting authority to the 100 Mexican trucking companies specified under the DOT pilot test may take between four to six months to complete.
“The department is committed to moving forward with this program,” he said, “and will continue to work with members of Congress to address their concerns.”
Hunter also was critical of the FMCSA decision to begin implementing the Mexican truck pilot test immediately.
The congressman’s spokesman, Joe Kasper, told WND Hunter has significant concerns about the program.
“Congressman Hunter maintains that compliance and enforcement standards must be clarified and strengthened before the pilot program is implemented,” Kasper said. “Congressman Hunter will utilize the program’s impending implementation as an opportunity to promote and continue highlighting the importance of the NAFTA Trucking Safety Act.”
Don’t blame me, I voted for Jeff Davis! :)
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Uninsured motorist is already the highest portion of my premiums.
Will be interesting to see the reaction of the insurance companies to this influx of questionable vehicles and drivers. Since they seem to be excellent forgers of other documents to get US jobs, I have no doubt that they will be carrying forged licenses and insurance papers.
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