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MEXICAN TRUCKS: Murray Includes Language in Bill Urging Administration to Act
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) ^
| July 26, 2010
| U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)
Posted on 07/26/2010 3:32:56 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Sounds racist to me,the "mom in tennis shoes" is profiling.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:32:57 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
How do you tell a Mexican truck from an American truck without profiling? /rhet.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:34:30 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
LOL—someone should calculate how long it took her to cave to her agricultural/business constituency over her union constituency.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:35:11 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: HiJinx
The American trucks are the ones with the brakes, the insurance and the mufflers.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:42:08 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
I'm still chuckling. According to
Heritage and
govtrack.us, the Mexican tariffs were in retaliation for what occurred on March 11, 2009. According to this press release, she caves on July 26, 2010. LOLOL
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:42:46 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: La Lydia
That’s what the Teamsters claimed, at least. Say Union Yes!
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:44:06 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: La Lydia; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
The American trucks are the ones with the brakes, the insurance and the mufflers. LOL!!
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:45:47 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
To: La Lydia
Now that they’re using car bombs, Imagine the damage they could do to a “racist” Gringo city with a serious truck bomb.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:55:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: 1rudeboy
Actually, Mexico was retaliating for what happened in 1996, when Clinton refused to let the MexiTrucks in on schedule.
And then, the NAFTA arbitration panel ruled for Mexico in 2001, two weeks after Bush entered office.
And then, later in 2001, it was the Patty Murry-Richard Shelby amendment to the highway bill that provided the money to the border states to set up the MexiTruck inspection stations along the border.
To: HiJinx
I’m still waiting for reports of the carnage that ensued when we allowed these 107 deathtraps to operate on our highways. Do you think there was a coverup?
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:56:25 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ben Ficklin
No. It was a long-running dispute, but my Heritage link covers it well.
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:57:21 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: HiJinx; La Lydia
If the trucked is domiciled in Mexico, but the Mexican Trucking company is owned by a US trucking company, would that a Mexican truck or a US truck?
To: Ben Ficklin
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posted on
07/26/2010 3:59:53 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ben Ficklin
Distinction without a difference, as the truck must comply with U.S. regulations, regardless.
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:01:07 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ben Ficklin
It’d be a Mexican truck operated by an American company.
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:01:43 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
To: HiJinx
LOL Great!
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:05:13 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: mdittmar
With Mexican truckers, at least the gallon jugs of urine on the side of the road have exotic labels for the highway sanitation workers to read.
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:06:21 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: 1rudeboy
Must they pay the Mexican Driver the same pay as a gringo?
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:07:31 PM PDT
by
Colvin
(Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
To: 1rudeboy; HiJinx
I have lived in Mexico for long periods of time, which I can only assume you haven’t. I was not being factious or siding with the Teamsters, I was pointing out the truth. They have problems remembering to check and service their brakes. Mexican trucks are rarely insured. If there is a wreck, which is frequently, and the driver survives, he gets out and runs away as fast he he can because the Mexicans put you in jail until they sort out liability — because many of them aren’t insured. Mexican trucks, for reasons never explained to me clearly, are two or three times as loud as US trucks. People will not be happy once they are on our roads, regardless of whether they are Teamsters.
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posted on
07/26/2010 4:09:55 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: 1rudeboy
"as the truck must comply with U.S. regulations"
You would think that would be the case but it is not. Mexican trucks are not allowed into the US even if they meet US regulations.
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