Posted on 04/12/2011 7:06:34 AM PDT by Biggirl
A story broke yesterday concerning the retrofit of more than 100 trucks from Mexico that do not meet United States environmental standards. Our federal government is paying to upgrade these trucks, yet when the state of California and the EPA set new rules for US-owned trucks, they fine companies who do not comply.
This post is not about the environment, it concerns how US trucking companies are treated by the federal and state government as compared to Mexican-owned rigs. From AzCentral.com.
For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier. State and federal agencies cant force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.
So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems.
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This is completely insane. Only in Kalifornia would the idiot pols pay to fix
Mexican Trucks, and with.. US TAXPAYER money!!Grrrrrr!
I wonder if any of the Teamster Brothers can pull themselves away from the Wisconsin State Capitol to deal with this...
Nonsense. They merely lack the will.
Bfl
The government is doing this when it’s on the verge of insolvency?
Yup...the doors have been shut and the train is running on automatic pilot. Very sad!
The better question would be what is wrong with article?
The article is not distinguishing between dray-age trucks/shuttle trucks and OTR trucks.
The article is not distinguishing between the smog emitted by the shuttle truck on the Mexican side that drifts across the border and the smog emitted by the shuttle trucks while on the north side of the border.
There are no US shuttle trucks, only Mexican shuttles. They use only the Mexican junker trucks to keep the cost down.
Offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters.
Carlos yells ole free money now if we can get them to pay for some tires that have tread on them.
Is there ANYTHING dumber than a Federal employee?
I can’t disagree with anything you write, but taking LEGAL ACTION to attack the state of AZ is unprecedented in terms of siding with foreign criminals.
Yet another example that just goes to show that it’s all about the Benjamins.
Now Obama is counting votes for 2012 (Hispanic pandering full steam ahead), and he thinks that he has filled the unions' coffers sufficiently, so now finally he did another 180 on this issue (he has done this so many times -- wars, gitmo, tax cuts-- that nobody can keep track).
Obama: Let Mexican trucks roll!.....defies unions, ignores Congress
Interesting example of the fact that some factions of both the left and right can be opposed to the same thing.
See #33.
The U.N.’s plan is moving ahead I see.
Thanks. Good info!
Being an American citizen isn’t worth it anymore.
We are just suckers to be stolen from, by taxes and fraud, and most are dumb downed enough to not complain. Welcome to the USSA, brought to you by the public schools, who made sure the children of the country know NOTHING of THEIR heritage.
This is a new one. Wow.
My mom’s car failed some emissions test a few months ago. Pretty sure Uncle Barry hasn’t offered to pay for it yet.
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