Thread: The demonstrated danger of cross-border trucking

The demonstrated danger of cross-border trucking

New evidence suggests that the U.S. Department of Transportation is fully aware of the dangers inherent in opening our border to unsafe Mexican trucks.

The Teamsters union has long warned that opening the border to Mexican trucks endangers America’s highway safety and threatens U.S. warehouse and trucking jobs. We’ve been making that argument during the 17 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect. The agreement calls for Mexican trucks to freely roam our interstates.

Since December 2006, we have had still another reason to fight to keep our southern border closed: the horrific drug wars that have killed 40,000 people in Mexico. But even as the Department of Transportation tried to assuage our concerns about fatigued Mexican drivers and decrepit Mexican trucks, officials have said little or nothing about the possibility of drug violence spilling over our borders.

Earlier this year, DOT announced it would start another pilot program to allow Mexican trucks to travel beyond the narrow border zone. Last month, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said two Mexican carriers would soon get approval to participate in the pilot program.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk was tasked with persuading the American public that opening the border will benefit American workers. He has called the program “a good deal.â€

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk

Yea, make a mess just like you did when you were Mayor of Dallas, TX.

Dixie

Along with the guranteed loss of American jobs who do our citizens sue if a family member is injured or killed by mexican trucks on our roads?
Also as you should know even now not all trucks can be inspected due to time and manpower shortages and many have been found to be carrying drugs and or illegals. Since we cannot even inspect all trucks now...how we will inspect all these trucks and what is to stop terrorists from using the trucks which would be rightly considered the easiest way into our country? What happened to national security? We have to be checked at airports while terrorists are free to cross our borders and under this plan won t even have to walk thru the desert..they can drive in trucks to kill our citizens!