President Bush Opens U.S. Roads to Mexican Trucks

AP NEWS ^ | Published: Nov 27, 2002 | The Associated Press

[Crusader21stCentury]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush gave the go-ahead Wednesday for Mexican trucks to travel U.S. roads beyond commercial border zones where they have been restricted while inspection sites and new regulations were put in place.

[4Freedom]

Idiot and moron aren't their words of choice, anyway. Listen for them to be refering to Bush as the grande, gringo, estupido, Presidente Pendejo con no cojones.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Now that so many major corporations have relocated their factories out of this country, to get the cheapest labor possible, they have the cheapest way to get the goods back into this country. This helps our unemployment checks go further.

[Eric Esot]

These rustbuckets WILL be loaded with drugs and illegal aliens, plus their lack of safety can be expected to take some of us down on the roads. And, on top of all that, American truckers will now have to face cheaper competition in the labor force.

Mexican and Canadian trucks must be insured to U.S. standards. Insurance companies are very strict with commercial trucking and will not insure unsafe trucks. Since Mexican trucks (not like the pictures posted on this thread) need to qualify under the Department of Transportation, show proof of insurance and provide 90 day inspection reports, and then undergo an inspection by the California Highway Patrol before they cross the border, where's the problem?

And, on top of all that, American truckers will now be able to travel into Mexico to pick up cargo!

[jeremiah]

How long until we hear that we have to have the influx from Mexico, no white people will drive trucks???????

[glock rocks]

bonk

[Reaganwuzthebest]

And, on top of all that, American truckers will now be able to travel into Mexico to pick up cargo!

Wow, I'm impressed. And just what do you plan to do with all the drugs and illegal aliens these trucks will bring with them? You think Customs will go through them all? And how do you expect American truckers, many of them suffering economic hardships as it is to compete with this cheaper labor?

If you say that none of these poblems are going to happen, you're in denial.

[galt-jw]

hey, neato!

so, not only do we have NO IDEA who is coming across our borders NOW, we don't freaking want to know, AND, we'll INCREASE the amount of traffic we don't check. COOL.

YEAH, EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE. when another explosion occurs, it will be the thing the statists need to initiate COMPLETE CONTROL.

think I'm wrong?....every tyrant and fascist was backed by head in the sand dupes who just wanted "the best for society."

and when our liberty is gone, YOU fight for it. I have already done so, here. The blood of patriots waters the tree of liberty, but only at the very end. do it yourself.

the road to hell.....

[fightu4it]

Is this the time to be doing this? He must have his head up his ........!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Yeah, we took back the Senate!

The problem is we need a more conservative President.

[galt-jw]

And just what do you plan to do with all the drugs and illegal aliens these trucks will bring with them?

The Answer, of course, is: to clean up radioactive bomb debris, replace citizens killed from terrorism who work in non skilled areas, provide drugs to pacify/cripple the masses.

[umgud]

And, on top of all that, American truckers will now be able to travel into Mexico to pick up cargo...

American truckers aren't eager to drive in Mexico. The hijack and mordida costs are too great.

[dennisw]

Mexico: the world's #3 source of petroleum.

Not true! It might be somewhere around #8.

[Arizona]

What is Bush thinking??

I have no idea what he's thinking; but sadly, I think Chuck Harder was right a year or so ago when he suggested that it may take another 911-type incident, maybe more than one, before Bush & Co. begin to get serious about the defense of this country.

Tancredo in 2004!

az

[american spirit]

I have a bad feeling this is going to cause mayhem on the freeways. Just wait until the Mexicans start undercutting US truckers across the highway. I've talked to some truckers already who say there will be hell to pay!

[e_engineer]

Wasn't this a regular good old boy American who picked up a load of lumber at Home Depot near Dundalk Maryland?

[xp38]

Was there a big lobby to want to pick up stuff in Mexico? All I know up here in the great white north is that there are lots of Yankee trucks rolling around. This decision means Canada will have Mexican trucks soon as well.

[Tacis]

What a terrible dilema for the chained, alp-dog, ultra-left wing, extremist media in this country. They will have lots of opportunities to clobber Bush's stupidity on this issue but at the cost of pointing out Mexican excesses.

Poor Mexican trucks will haul dope, illegals and terrorist material into the heartland some may be caught. Some won't.

The problems will involve profiling and bribes. Mexicans don't believe in obeying the law. They know that if they get caught violating a law, they can ALWAYS buy their way out. Mexican trucks will be poorly maintained and overloaded, will never have the right insurance or log books and the drivers will not have licenses and will exceed federal duty limitations. All of them? No, but enough so that every Mexican truck will be a logical stop. They'll get tickets and fines and one jurisdiction will call the next. The drivers will try to bribe the troopers and get arrested.

Within six months after Mexican trucks move freely around the EU, Presidente Fox will be bitching about the profiling of Mexican trucks and the arrests of Mexican drivers.

[jws3sticks]

Of course, I meant to type 'Bush'

[CIBvet]

You need lots more recovering democrat .... people with your attitude only seem to finally get it when they wake up in line BEHIND some Illegal, praying for a decent job.