[businessprofessor]

You need to compare alternatives. One alternative is to unload/load at the border. The other alternative is not to unload/load. I am no expert in the transportation industry but those are the alternatives as I understand. I do not think it is a requirement to unload/load all trucks at the border if this agreement goes forward.

[dragnet2]

Like the taxi cab industry in the U.S., it's almost exclusively now run by Muslims/Mid-Easterners....Heck, most of our major airports are completely encircled by potential car bombs...I mean taxi cabs driven by Mid-Eastern Muslims. Ya see, this is all part of our crack Homeland Security.

So we might as well give up our entire trucking industry to Mexico. Because that is exactly what will eventually occur.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Among other responsibilities, I am involved in shipping and receiving goods between 56 countries. Trust me on this one. When goods arrive into the USA, the are always consolidated into routes which service unique areas. This means that goods are off loaded at terminals and reloaded onto other trucks destined for particular destinations, just like tankers are off loaded at ports of entry. The “efficiency” argument is BS.