Posted on 08/17/2007 4:47:10 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Plan to Allow Some Mexican Trucks Full U.S. Highway Access Nears Approval
Friday , August 17, 2007
AP
WASHINGTON — Some Mexican trucks will be allowed to carry cargo anywhere in the United States as soon as a federal inspector general certifies safety and inspection plans, the Bush administration announced Friday.
The latest step toward implementing a controversial provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement drew instant condemnation from labor and driver-owner groups that fear the program will erode highway safety and eliminate U.S. jobs.
The decision was announced by a Transportation Department notice in the Federal Register, a dry, daily compendium of new federal rules read mostly by lobbyists and lawyers.
A one-year demonstration project allowing 100 Mexican motor carriers full access to U.S. roads will begin as soon as the department's inspector general certifies that safety and inspection plans and facilities are sufficient to ensure the Mexican trucks are at least as safe as U.S. trucks. That requirement was imposed by Congress.
Mexican trucks are now confined to commercial zones within about 25 miles of the border.
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Ay chihuahua!
Good luck with that. Doesn't matter, though. Inspector general certification is a lock regardless.
Thats where they should stay.
The fix is in.
Cheap labor, cheap imported goods, regardless of consequences.
only if they are hauling truckloads of chinese goods covered in lead paint!
Paving the way for SPP/NAU.
Treason in action...
Guatemalans hit hardest.
Yeah, they’ve been allowed to truck in thousands of *tons* of drugs every year or two, not to mention the human cargo industry via Mexico, so the Feds allowing this is no surprise. All part of their plan.
Bush worked harder to push Mexican trucks on us than he ever did for Social Security Reform.
Camel’s nose.
Just in time to help transport the Mexican laborers north to Canada after Canada and Mexico complete the agreement at the NAU meeting.
Our auto insurance rates are about to soar! It’s so easy that a caveman could have figured it out. Now politicians, they are a different story. They don’t possess the mental ability needed to figure it out.
What the heck.We Americans are worried now about the safety of our roads and bridges.Just wait till these Mexican truck drivers come across our borders in trucks that are Not up to American safety standards and that go’s double for their drivers.
How many Americans are going to be killed because of this stupidity?
The burro’s nose has been parked under the proverbial tent for a long time now. It’s ass is next.
The burro’s nose has been parked under the proverbial tent for a long time now. Its ass is next.
Who, among US citizens, benefits from this?
Don’t forget the fish.
What’s your worry? Why, they’re as safe as imported Chinese food! Just relax and let the people in charge do what they know is best for you.
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