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Whose ox is gored by allowing Mexican truck drivers to deliver their goods? Is it the Teamsters Union or who?

Not knowing what you do to earn your denaros, I'll cover just a few of the items as I see them and you can tell me when to stop.

first off, congress de funded the cross border program so FMCSA has no way to enforce any compliance.

The Mexican government has no database to verify the validity of a Mexican license nor can the Mexican states report to each other when violations occur, to report to the operators home state to define a habitual offender.

Mexico has no hours of service regulations, thusly a Mexican driver can and does drive for up to 24 hours from areas like Mexico City to the US border, then with a swipe of the pen starts a log (required while running in the states) before crossing the border, amazingly just having come off a 10 hour break so he'll be good here for another 11 hours of driving.

I hope your family won't be there.

There are no drug testing facilities meeting our minimum standards, in Mexico so we are to believe that the sample is an honest clean sample, when they mail their drug tests to our labs, did you see the ABC sting about drug testing a few weeks ago? We've got issues with in person fraud, but mail in samples now too??!

All this is so an honest hard working Mexican can cross the border for 1/4th the money an American driver would do it for ...

Chapter Two - Equipment

Contrary to what Mary Peters would have you believe, not all the equipment coming from Mexico will be the 2007 quality that was the token truck shown on Labor Day when the cross border program was initiated. I've seen some of the trucks and they've ranges from stuff a couple of years old, to what would be retired in the US as vintage 80's farm trash cause we wouldn't in good conscience use it on the highways, that description includes trailers as well.

Have you looked at a Diesel pump lately?

We recently switched to a new formulation of diesel designated as ULSD - ultra low sulpher 15 ppm. down from the 500 ppm we started using in the early 90's

Mexico does not comply with our EPA standards so the cheaper fuel they'll be packing when they cross into the US will be over 5000 ppm, not very carbon friendly is it...

BTW for the US trucks that are going down there, with the new standards, our equipment has a DPF - diesel particulate filter, it will be good for about one tank of Mexigas before the emissions are fouled and the truck will literally have to be towed to a shop that can clean out the plumbing.

Chapter Three, Security

Here are some links you so you can figure out who's getting hosed and it seems to me we can deduce where the next 9-11 will be ...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16077

http://www.bajainsider.com/environment/port-punta-colonet.htm

http://www.banderasnews.com/0604/re-bajafrenzy.htm

http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_corridors/corridors.htm

So lets think about this, we've got imported drivers bringing imported goods across the least secure border in possibly unsafe trucks being operated by mostly unregulated drivers that possibly can't speak, read or intermingle with our citizens.

are you feeling just a little prick yet?

There's a lot more if you want it...

Oh, and since you obviously have a dislike for the Teamsters, here's a good one for ya, be sure and follow the links inside the story for a complete picture...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57412