[1rudeboy]

Shaving a couple of pennies per ton of merchandise isn't a good enough answer.

If shaving pennies isn't a good enough answer, then we should add a couple pennies and unload/reload the material more than than the four times under the current system. Think of the jobs that would create.

[sausageseller]

I have watched and seen the trucks in Gary and Chicago. I have seen the trucks bought at US truck auctions that are hauled to Mexico and trucks at border crossings. No comparison.

Just look at the picture on the article page. How many cabovers do you seen running the US roads? They buy wore out US junk trucks and haul them to Mexico. Use bailing wire and whatever they can find and keep them going.

You can post all the articles and studies you want . I have seen it my own eyes.

[Batrachian]

"then we should add a couple pennies and unload/reload the material more than than the four times under the current system."

There is no unload/reload. Instead, they do what in the trucking industry is known as a drop and hook. Mexicans bring the trailer to the border zone, drop it there, and then U.S. drivers pick it up for shipment into the U.S.

This adds a couple of pennies per ton of merchandise, as I said. Don't worry, though. An idea this bad will have to come true.

This idea comes from NAFTA, as I'm sure you know, so I suggest you look up the statistics on what's happened to our trade deficit with Mexico since then. We got taken for a ride, and the ride goes on.