Mexican trucks to be rolling across U.S. in 6 months

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 21, 2011 | Jerome R. Corsi

[greenhornet68]

Department of Transportation officials and the U.S. trade representative's office are in Mexico this week negotiating final details of a renewed Mexican truck demonstration project with the goal of allowing foreign long-haul loads to roam U.S. roads by summer.

[Liz]

August 24, 2007
TEXAS governor rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor
One News Now | Chad Groening
FR Posted 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.

Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.

The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.

"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."

Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.

Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

NASCO Map of Corridor

NASCO Members----United States
Texas Dept. of Transportation
Iowa Department of Transportation
State of Oklahoma
Minnesota Dept. of Transportation
Bell County, Texas
Denton County, Texas
Tarrant County, Texas
Webb County, Texas
Jackson County, Missouri
City of Denton, Texas
City of Ft. Worth, Texas
City of Gainesville, Texas
City of Kansas City, Missouri
International Trade Institute of the Americas
Free Trade Alliance San Antonio
Port San Antonio
United States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City SmartPort
The Ardmore Development Authority, City of Ardmore, Oklahoma
Belton Economic Development Corporation
The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
The Allen Group
Hillwood - Alliance Texas
The Ambassador Bridge Detroit/Windsor Crossing
American Airlines
Blackwood, Langworthy & Tyson, Kansas City law firm
Cadre Technologies
Franco Eleuteri & Associates
EWI Risk Services, Inc.
GrowthNet Trading, LLC
International Bank of Commerce
Lockheed Martin
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores
PROTECT-US, Inc.
Scrub Oak Technologies
Strasburger & Price Law Firm
Trans Am Group
Yellow Roadway Corporation Worldwide

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NASCO: For the Record

The Dallas-based organization, North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO), which receives federal money to promote an agenda of tolled transnational corridors, has raised some eyebrows with their marketing literature touting superhighways, not just in Texas, but across the continent.

NASCO insists that its interests are not directly connected with Gov. Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor, even though the organization changed its name in 2004 from "North America's SuperHighway Coalition" (a name adopted in 1996 at the start of the "internet superhighway" craze) to "North America's SuperCorridor Coalition," a change that coincided with the announcement of the Trans-Texas Corridor. In an extended retort entitled "NASCO Speaks Out," officials of NASCO wrote on their website, "Our name and our initiatives have nothing to do with the proposed new corridor in Texas. It is a coincidence upon which fringe groups have been able to capitalize and confuse people."

NASCO leadership has also been dismayed to see their materials promoting brightly-colored "super-corridors" across North America being used by the "misinformed" to warn people about the proposed plans beyond the Trans-Texas Corridor.

NASCO's leaders write: We … used to have a marketing map on the homepage of our website that had I-35 and our connecting corridors greatly enlarged for viewing purposes and presentations. This was used by conspiracy theorists to show the "blueprint" for the (nonexistent) 'new NAFTA Superhighway.' Some people unfamiliar with our organization were confused and believed these falsehoods. The map was a marketing tool, and has since been updated to show the corridor a bit more drawn to scale (although it is still is not drawn exactly to scale.) The fringe groups continue to use the old, enlarged map to scare people, although we use only the new (scaled down) map.

SOURCE Thom White is editor of CITIZINE, Austin, Texas. Contact Thom @ CITIZINE@CITIZINEmag.com

[RC one]

Nothing like handing your enemy high speed attack routes all over your country. This is some GDBS.

[knarf]

Divide and conquer.

This is madness and will only cause riots and violence.

I remember this controversy during the x42 years, but how much farther back does it go?

[Dallas59]

How many “trucks” will we find abandoned and the drivers missing?

[Doogle]

....the US will insist that all Mexican trucks must meet US ENVIRONMENTAL REGS....when fines are imposed and ignored the US TAX PAYERS will upgrade the Mexican trucking industries to meet standards....
..feel better?

[Roccus]

Mexican trucks to be rolling across U.S. in 6 months

.....and in seven months, all stops and inspections of Mexican trucks by State Police will be halted due to cries of "RACIAL PROFILING!"

[Diogenesis]

There is no doubt that Obama and the docile Congress
work for the 57 States and ALL of America's enemies.

[upchuck]

Driveby poster.

[Liz]

TEXAS GOV PERRY COLLABORATED WITH FAILED PREZ CANDIDATE GIULIANI TO UNDERMINE US NATIONAL SECURITY Perry collaborated with Giuliani using US eminent domain laws to take US properties from American taxpayers and give them to foreign entities.

Take a look at GIULIANI'S idea of "border security."

TEXAS-CANADA-MEXICO TRADE CORRIDOR BROKERED BY Bracewell & Giuliani

NARCO ENTRY POINTS into Texas and Cali.

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NEWS STORY Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas
DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Rudy's Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties ("trade road" is four football fields wide). The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country."

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PERRY HELPED GIVEAWAY TEXAS ROADS TO MEXICANS TX governor Perry rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor
One News Now | August 24, 2007 | Chad Groening
FR Posted on 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.

Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.

The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.

"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."

Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.

Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

[Liz]

Mexican president Calderon and Ohaha.

[Will88]

Whenever this issue resurfaces I always wonder about something: do US firms and independent truckers have any desire to operate in Mexico? That never seems to be mentioned, but my guess is many US truckers want no part of Mexico due to the lawlessness that’s getting worse instead of better.

This is probably just one more, one-way deal where US jobs will be lost and none gained to offset the losses.

[chicagolady]

OH YES, Our Laws are ALWAYS Enforced! No Problem here!! Move along now.

[9YearLurker]

I see two issues here: Mexican trucks and Mexican truck drivers. To me, the latter probably won’t be regulated sufficiently. Do we want these guys on the road if they don’t speak English? Aren’t familiar with our types of roads and signs? If we can’t have sufficient background checks on them? I’ve never heard of truck driving as a job Americans won’t do.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, two more issues: 1) To me, such drivers won’t have enough at stake—family and property in the US—to adhere as well to the rules. 2) Won’t they be naturals for the lawless drug smugglers to infiltrate and use?

[Roccus]

PING!!

[Roccus]

Not only drugs, but people......think OTMs

[org.whodat]

The nafta agreement prohibits state dot from inspecting mexican trucks. Rush helped clintoon do this. The real results will be killing the owner operator business and more unemployment. But the american truckers should figure out that spike nails are cheap.

[9YearLurker]

You’re right—bulk delivery nationwide.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I guess all the Free Trader Globalists will be happy now....the rest of us better get crash helmets and roll bars.

Obama the Free Trader strikes again. And, more proof Free Trade is Liberalism