Posted on 08/31/2007 6:32:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration can go ahead with a pilot program to allow as many as 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere within the U.S. for the next year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request made by the Teamsters union, the Sierra Club and the nonprofit Public Citizen to halt the program.
The appeals court ruled the groups have not satisfied the legal requirements to immediately stop what the government is calling a "demonstration project," but can continue to argue their case.
The trucking program is scheduled to begin Thursday.
In court papers filed earlier this week, the Teamsters and Sierra Club argued there won't be enough oversight of the drivers coming into the U.S. from Mexico.
They also argued that public safety would be endangered in a hasty attempt by the government to comply with parts of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The trade agreement requires that all roads in the United States, Mexico and Canada to be opened to carriers from all three countries.
Canadian trucking companies have full access to U.S. roads, but Mexican trucks can only travel about 20 miles inside the country at certain border crossings such as ones in San Diego and El Paso, Texas.
There is one court in the land that’s higher and right now it leans slightly right.
Well, I had visions of that actually happening. But the downside of that insures that it won’t happen again if one of their trucks loaded with illegals is run off the road, killing perhaps 100 people.
My mom may have already encountered one of those trucks in Califonia. She was on a freeway and found herself being tailgated by a truck. She knows that trucks can’t stop that fast, so she got out of its way. He was going really fast even though the freeway was full of cars. When she was behind it, she noticed that the license plate was from Mexico.
I just know those Mexican drivers are going to cause accidents, but will the media even report them?
Hey, Borax Queen,
Good to hear from you.
“…but we’re causing trouble today :0)”
I hope so. This is quite depressing for me.
My best regards to you, and keep well and safe.
You made one heck of a great point. So true it is.
The administration plans to start the program on September 6. Transportation Department officials hope to receive final clearance early next week from the department’s inspector general’s office, which is reviewing its safety aspects, and finalize details with Mexican authorities.
The Mexican government must grant reciprocal access to U.S. trucks under NAFTA. That provision is not expected to be a problem, regulators said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0129981820070901
Teamsters continue to battle Mexican trucks
Sean Holstege
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 3, 2007 12:00 AM
The plan to let Mexican trucks operate throughout the United States has prompted a war of words and legal papers between the Bush administration and Jim Hoffa, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Hoffa and his allies at the Sierra Club and Public Citizen have sued in federal court to stop the government from issuing permits to Mexican freight haulers. Their lawyers argued in court that Mexican trucks pose a danger on the roads and threaten increased human and drug smuggling.
“Dangerous trucks should not be driving all the way from Mexico to Maine and Minnesota,” said Hoffa in a prepared statement. “What is it about safety and national security that George Bush doesn’t understand?”
~snip~
Nothing can happen until the inspector general of the Department of Transportation blesses the one-year experiment and until the Mexican government issues permits to U.S. trucking companies.
That all could happen as early as Thursday.
~snip~
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0903mextrucks0903inside.html
Please ping your lists to the updates if you have them...thanks.
What part of this does the 9th Circus not understand, as well?
Methinks Hoffa is engaged in a little grand-standing.
Does anyone really believe the Mobsters gives a flying fig about American truckers? I would be surprised to learn that a secretary working at Mobsters HQ makes less than 10 times what an American truck driver makes.
How many of our Presidential candidates are against Nafta? I heard Dennis Kucinich say that he would repeal Nafta. He was not my first choice,but maybe this little guy with few funds is the only one that is looking after the rest of us. We have to change things every way that we can. We the people have to make good things happen! Protesting is another method, but we all know what would happen if we stood in front of a truck from Mexico.
Incidentally, who do we think own these 100 Mexican Trucking Companies??? Corporate America? That is who Bush works for, don’tcha know?
“How many of our Presidential candidates are against Nafta?”
I’m not sure. A couple of them likely are.
I watched some of the episodes on the History channel. Are you sure you want to be an ice road trucker for that kind of money under those conditions?
Bump for watching. Last word...protests by the teamsters on Thursday. Nothing out today that I’ve seen. Latest from WH is on this thread (press release of 31 Aug 07)
>>Nothing out today that I’ve seen.<<
It would be nice if we could say the same thing tomorrow......(I have the feeling that there will be plenty to read about after the Mexican Trucks hit our highways tomorrow.)
It’s an understandable feeling. History is a pretty good predictor of the future...unfortunately.
The trucks get to go *everywhere* in the USA now and they get to cross to Canada which’ll make I-5 more dangerous than it already is.
Great and Florida is sunsetting personal injury protection so when there are spectacular highway crashes by these foreign new world order truckers, nobody will pay on claims. (But I bet the truckers will get free ER treatment while the American accident victims of their’s will get billed.)
When is the ninth circuit going to start retiring? Surely, if you’re too old to drive, one shouldn’t be a judge. They are a bunch of aging marxists.
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