Sure, it sounds bad...but it's all part of Bush's war on terror, ya know...Homeland Security, etc.
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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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.
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