Thread: Agency backs opening border to Mex. Trucks

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Agency backs opening border to long-haul Mexican trucks





By Paul M. Krawzak
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

August 18, 2007

WASHINGTON – A federal transportation agency yesterday defended President Bush's plan to open the border to long-haul Mexican truck traffic in a response to overwhelmingly negative public views of the proposal.
The 27-page defense appearing in the Federal Register advances the controversial cross-border trucking pilot program one step closer to implementation.

Online: To read the full government report, click on: http://www.access.gpo.gov/ su_docs/fedreg/ a070817c.html
Scroll down to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and click on link to "NAFTA cross-border trucking provisions."


Bush has sought to conduct the program as part of his effort to comply with a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement requiring the United States and Mexico to open their borders to each other's commercial trucks.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which would conduct the program, acknowledged that the vast majority of the more than 2,300 public comments it received were opposed to the proposed one-year experiment.

But the agency argued that it is committed to making sure Mexican truck drivers obey all U.S. rules and regulations during the trial. The program would allow up to 100 Mexican carriers to send trucks into the United States.

Opponents – including the Teamsters union, other trucking and safety organizations and dozens of lawmakers – contend that Mexican drivers would pose a hazard on U.S. highways and would displace American truck drivers because they work for lower wages.



AdvertisementCurrently, Mexican trucks can only travel within a 25-mile border zone in the United States. U.S. trucks are barred from entering Mexico.
The agency sought public comment last June, after making changes to the pilot program to comply with additional safeguards mandated by Congress in an emergency spending bill.

The agency responded to critics' worries that Mexican truck drivers, unlike their American counterparts, are not required to comply with rules limiting their driving time or mandating drug and alcohol testing, among other issues.

U.S. officials said that since 2000, Mexican truckers have been required to keep logbooks showing how long they have been on the road in case they are pulled over.

The drivers are limited to eight hours of driving during the day and seven hours at night, the government said. They also can accumulate up to three hours of overtime a day, three times a week.

The agency said it has “extensive experienceâ€

WASHINGTON – A federal transportation agency yesterday defended President Bush's plan to open the border to long-haul Mexican truck traffic in a response to overwhelmingly negative public views of the proposal.
The 27-page defense appearing in the Federal Register advances the controversial cross-border trucking pilot program one step closer to implementation.

Online: To read the full government report, click on: http://www.access.gpo.gov/ su_docs/fedreg/ a070817c.html
Scroll down to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and click on link to "NAFTA cross-border trucking provisions."

Just so you know and are not confussed: The Federal Transportation Agency works for the President

It is way past time to clean house.... The White House / Congress / Senate and the Supreme courts are crawling with filth and corruption

It is time for King Bush to go ... preferrably by eviction notice but I'll settle for less

No longer can we wait for these things to happen. It is far harder to undue than it is to let it just happen in front of our eyes

What is truly amazing is that the 12 lane super highway coming through the heart of Texas and goes straight through to Canada is going to cost Mega Billions .... all these funds are being stripped from the State Department of Transportation to give the Mexican drivers a brand new road and BRIDGES while the citizens are crossing bridges that are collapsing underneith them....

Did you also know a Spanish company got a no bid contract to service the road .... the citizens are paying for a spanish company to repair the road in the United States of America that Mexican truck drivers are going to be driving on .... hmmmm ... sounds pretty flaky and Damn where are the Truck drivers and Men that should be standing in front of the White House screaming for impeachment

By the way, there are over 700,000 bridges that are in a state of disrepair; get ready for more collapses... just hope and pray your children are not on a school bus when it goes

How patheticly corrupt is this President ... i guess we are going to find out

Moving to News Section from Other Topics. This is part of the NAU/SPP/NAFTA stuff.

Yeah, Airborne where are the truckers? They could shut down businesses in a minute with a boycott.

Originally Posted by saveourcountry

Yeah, Airborne where are the truckers? They could shut down businesses in a minute with a boycott.

Yes, they could with either a boycott or a 'slowdown' like they have in the past.

But, folks, did you know we could do the same thing?

We can control this. We can't control it by depending only on congress or the President or law enforcement.

We control the money - we could do it.

Please, please consider it.

We can control this. We can't control it by depending only on congress or the President or law enforcement.

We control the money - we could do it.

Please, please consider it.

My and my spouse make a combined total 182,000. We will not donate to the Republicans ... "And Only, Only buy American" to include food ...

We are fighting back our own way

AirborneSapper7

How would you feel about joining in a boycott of ALL poultry products?

Just pass by chicken, turkey, eggs, no KFC, etc.?

How would you feel about joining in a boycott of ALL poultry products?

Just pass by chicken, turkey, eggs, no KFC, etc.?

We already have a while back... mainly because of the businesses supporting Illegals that work in the plants