Mexican trucking firm 'ready to go to work'

Cross-border hauling program is under way

By Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITER

September 11, 2007

MEXICALI – While trucking groups in the United States and Mexico decry a pilot program opening the border to long-haul operators, Rafael GodÃ*nez Sandoval is getting ready to roll.

Inside GodÃ*nez's small operations center in the heart of Mexicali's industrial district, a trailer packed with tightly wrapped pallets of plastic fruit baskets manufactured in central Mexico is set for delivery to a grower in Northern California.

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Driver Arturo Cortez, an employee of Transportes Rafa de Baja California, prepared to check the oil in one of the company's trucks yesterday in Mexicali.
“We're ready to go to work, we have the people, and we have the equipment,â€