Posted on 12/05/2007 3:43:00 AM PST by Man50D
Members of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association say they have documented hundreds of safety violations by Mexican trucks rolling on U.S. roads under the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project.
"The Department of Transportation is allowing Mexican long-haul rigs to operate in the United States without requiring U.S. rules and regulations to be enforced," Rick Craig, the director of regulatory affairs for the group, told WND in a telephone interview yesterday.
"The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is providing exemptions from U.S. safety rules that the FMCSA claim are covered in a Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Mexico," Craig continued.
"It's a clear double standard," he said. "Mexican truck safety regulations are being accepted by the FMCSA as equivalent to U.S. rules, even though the FMCSA refuses to provide any real detail about how or why the decision was made."
The association has filed a lawsuit against the DOT and FMCSA in San Francisco, challenging that the Mexican trucks the government is allowing into the U.S. under the DOT demonstration project are unsafe when tested by U.S. safety rules and regulations.
Catherine O'Mara, a paralegal at the Cullen Law Firm which is representing OOIDA, has provided the court with documentation of her research on safety violations by the Mexican trucks.
She searched the FMCSA database looking for all safety violations cited for four of the Mexican trucking companies currently in the DOT test for the year preceding the start of the demonstration project on Sept. 21, 2007.
The largest number of safety violations, 1,123 in total, was found for Trinity Industries De Mexico S de R L de CV.
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I’ve seen those Mexican trucks... they spew out smoke like a semi-active volcano.
So-—Meehhicccans don’t play by the rules.
WHAT’S NEW?
“In examining the records of violations for these Mexican operators, we found many cases where the same truck comes back over the border and is cited again for the same types of violation,” Craig told WND.”
Like Hey Man, We don’t need to comply with your Steenkin’ Rules man. Wherever there’s a Mexican person, it is Mexico man.
Canadian truckers should file a complaint with the WTO over this obvious violation of the NAFTA. Seems to be some favortism going on where Canadian truck drivers have to follow strick rules while Mexicans are exempt.
If you knew this was gonna happen, please raise your hand.
That’s what I thought.
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el PING!
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Run hard and put away wet is the first thing that comes to mind when I see one.
I wonder if all we’ll see is their old dogs. Someone reported that KW has an assemnly plant in Mexico and I’ve been to a plant in Juarez that had all new and very clean KW tractors.
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