As much as we like to blame everthing on Clinton most of these new rules were put in place by the current administration..as the Mexican trucks start rolling into your neighborhood..carring more illegals (maybe some terrorists in that mix) and drugs and not meeting our safety and insurance requirments driven by spanish speakers..just remember that daddy Bush helped draw up NAFTA and little Bush just activated it
The controling interest is a European market type government with pesos and dollars and open migration .Any fool could see the problems..any fool but the Bush guys that is..
The initial problem with Mexican trucks had nothing to do with drugs or commerce. It had to do with the DOT.
The Dept. of Transportation alerted the Administration, during the clinton years, that the Mexican trucks were not following U.S. regulations regarding safety inspection, tire regs, driver logs and even cleanliness. This was argued for months and finally the call was made to stop the trucks from traveling across the U.S. They instead were made to drop their loads, an American truck would finish the job.
They were to do this until Mexican authorities instituted safety protocols on their end and had the situation of unsafe trucks under control.
I suspect that we have received assurances that they have done just that. I do not know that for a fact, as I have not spoken to anyone in the industry recently.
As this other stuff is just plain B.S. and hyperbole. IMHO
The unfettered use of U.S. highways by mexican truckers will gravely endanger motorist. By the drivers own admission they can not afford to repair the problems their trucks currently have. The U.S. trucking industry is already fruat with its own problems and truckers operating in violation of state and federal laws. To state that these drivers could operate on our highways without fear of prosecution or impound of thier vehicles is rediculous. How many motorist must pay with thier lives before we realize a mistake was made. If the mexican trucking companies would like to operate in the U.S. we should require them to maintain the same safety standards as are require by our own companies. If and only if they meet these standards should they be allowed to travel in the U.S. We should not trade the expansion of the mexican economy for the safety of U.S. citizens.
I suppose you are calling me a fool in this statement. Well, so what!
Just who is being foolish?
It seems that some on this forum jump at every falsehood spread by the democrats and liberal media writers that criticize Bush and his administration for any reason, no matter how false these reasons are. I do not, so that makes me a fool! LOL!