[XBob]

Last month, the U.S. government announced the end to a moratorium and said it will open its borders to Mexican trucks starting in 2003, but with restrictions.

The trucks will only be allowed to enter the United States after passing safety inspections, obtaining insurance and when carrying maintenance records from U.S. firms. In addition, drivers will have to submit to drug and alcohol tests.

According to the Mexican government and Canacar, which represents 4,500 companies and 32,000 independent truckers, the requirements are "discriminatory."

Canacar statistics indicate that only 30,000 of the 140,000 trucks it represents currently meet the U.S. requirements

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

30,000 trucks is still wa.....ay too many.

[FITZ]

If you look at the routes the Mexican buses are apparently allowed to take passengers between NY City and Miami, and between Chicago and NY City and it seems like LA also. Our government first made it sound like the buses and trucks would be allowed to travel from Mexico cities directly to American cities and wouldn't travel from one American point to another ---but this doesn't appear to be true ---even this early into the game.