Posted on 07/06/2011 5:34:36 PM PDT by Nachum
After years of wrangling, US and Mexican officials signed an agreement Wednesday that allows trucks from each nation to travel on the other country’s highways – a key provision of NAFTA.
Washington
The United States and Mexico on Wednesday signed an agreement aimed at resolving a cross-border trucking dispute. The longstanding disagreement had come to symbolize growing resistance, especially in the US Congress, to free-trade provisions with America’s southern neighbor.
The accord, signed in Mexico City by US and Mexican transportation officials, would end a 15-year-old controversy that on the US side featured fears of unsafe Mexican trucks barreling along US highways, driven by unprofessional Mexican truckers.
On the Mexican side, outrage over the American disregard for a NAFTA provision led to retaliatory tariffs on US goods ranging from pork to consumer care products – which cost the US as much as $2 billion in exports.
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Driving Wages down; one third world truck driver at a time.
Any word from the border governors on this?
Well don’t you know our American drivers will be so eager to cross the border and drive on the Mexican highways as a rolling shout out to the drug cartels, kidnappers and thieves. Yeh that will happen. Not!
Its a one way street folks. Crappy azz Mexican trucks coming into our country and taking the bread out of US driver’s mouths. Oh and we all get to pay to bring the Mexican trucks up to US standards.
Don’t know. Have to check.
bttt.
We can say goodby to the small independent truckers.
Congress should not sign off. Like all trade deals with poor nations, all this will do for the US is cost (trucking) jobs here and be a net loss in jobs and increase our already $60 billion plus trade deficit with Mexico.
The article says Mexican trucks can deliver in the US and backhaul goods from the US into Mexico, but they can’t haul point-to-point within the US.
I thought I heard on the Midnight Radio Network that the loads would be from and to Mexico. That was some time ago and could be wrong.
Hope they have to carry the same or more insurance than US trucks.
They’ve been here for some time and yes
they deliver and backhaul to Mexico.
Now if the Neo-Commie Community Agitator can only get "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" passed, you will no doubt leave this earth a happy man.
“We can say goodby to the small independent truckers.”
No, just American small independent truckers.
I was on jury duty the week of 12/11/06 and one of my fellow jurors told me that her nephew was killed a year earlier by two illegals DRIVING their truck with FAULTY BRAKES to the BRAKE SHOP to be repaired when – surprise, surprise — the BRAKES FAILED AND THEY KILLED HER NEPHEW. I guess these MORONS thought they were back in Mexico where – in addition to driving DRUNK — they and their idiot friends do crap like that all the time. Can you say “Tijuana Taxi?” Can you say “TOW TRUCK?”
The driver got 4 years in prison and will be deported when he gets out.
Gotta wonder how long it will take him to sneak back in and kill someone else?
Estimates indicate they are killing around 25 American citizens each day, either with vehicles or via other criminal activity.
I can’t wait until the interstates start filling up with Mexican truckers on tight deadlines – and I do mean DEADlines – hurtling at carloads of unsuspecting native-born American citizens – all 387 of us.
Do you suppose this crap might stop if one of Obama’s daughters became a victim?
Of course, unlike the rest of us, they are driven to their endless round of parties by an armed SS detail, which eliminates the risk that they will be tempted to drive drunk themselves or be mugged or raped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_zCpQZ-H94
Dead on.
American truck drivers won't go near Mexico for all sorts of good reasons: like not being dead.
And the rest of us can get used to their games on the road, like violent, aggressive driving where "leetle cars" better get out of the way or be run off the road. Anyone who's driven in Mexico knows about that. And the charming habit of running at night without lights.
Turbocharged invasion, complete with a 78,000 GCW weapon.
What I’m getting at is; can Mexican or Canadian trucks do US point to US point deliveries or are they allowed Mexico-
US and no backhauls in the US to get back close to home...
This is kind of a Jones Act question
This will pit the teamsters against Obama and the dems...perhaps not a bad thing at all....lol. My guess is that it will never pass Congress.
The Ztas must have told big Sis and Holder that either the trucks start rolling, or we start singing like your ATF canary.
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