GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat question!!!!!!!!!
Anyone understand the political ramifications of this?
Offshoring and outsourcing is indirect. The Mexican truck thing has a direct, tangible, and immediate effect on jobs.
There is no planning, no building of infrastructure, no building factories, no building office buildings, no hiring of new workers, things which can take months and years for the effects of offshoring and outsourcing to take place.
100,000 Mexican trucks can roll across the border in one day. The effect on jobs will be direct, tangible, and immediate. This is political suicide.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/facts-research/facts-figures/analysis-statistics/driverfacts.htm
8.5 million registered large trucks.
11.4 million CDL holders (including invalid, revoked, suspended) I’m one of those, I didn’t do the required 6 month physical.
There is probably twice that amount of former drivers who have a pretty strong opinion about Mexican trucks. It could be a good 20 million potential voters.