Thread: U.S.-Mexico trucking plan may resume

U.S.-Mexico trucking plan may resume

By Jill Dunn

The United States may allow Mexican trucks to do business here as early as June, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reportedly said May 22.

This spring, Congress ended the cross-border trucking program between the two countries. Mexico responded with 90 tariffs totaling $2.4 billion on U.S. products, casting a heavy burden on U.S. producers, LaHood said in a Bloomberg story.

Candice Tolliver, the new communications director for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, did not immediately respond to questions.

In recent weeks, the FMCSA began work with the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of State, Congressional leaders and Mexican officials, to propose legislation for a new trucking project that will meet Congressional concerns and North American Free Trade Act commitments.

The agency is also working with safety advocates, labor organizations and other stakeholders. To facilitate this, some FMCSA proposal information may be shared with the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee.

That committee originally planned two public meetings, but held only a May 20 session to allow all parties to hear MCSAC members discuss all topics the committee will recommend to the FMCSA, the committee said.

The workgroup held conference calls, conducted work via e-mail, and met in person this week. During those meeting, the workgroup submitted a report to the committee for approval.

It noted that if the legislation proposed is for a pilot program, it needs to meet federal code for pilot programs. Also, the FMCSA’s website should provide full program transparency.

The committee met at the May 20 meeting and approved the report, which identified program design, enforcement, data collection, information exchange and outreach, and education as categories for the proposed legislation.

Program element details include requiring:
• Each truck must have electronic on-board recorders to collect real-time vehicle information.
• Trucks be 1996 models or later.
• A statistically valid sample size and representative participants must be used.
• Allowing full U.S. accessibility to driver information, such as crashes.
• Prohibiting transportation of security-sensitive hazardous material.
• A drug and alcohol testing program for participants, including mandatory participation in a random testing program, similar to Canadian cross-border drivers.
• Mexico’s specimen collection procedural requirements be equivalent to U.S. standards.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, has called Mexico’s retaliatory tariffs illegal.

DeFazio said the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inspector General reported Mexico’s carrier truck fleet and its driver licensing and safety rules did not meet U.S. law. The two countries can comply with the 2001 NAFTA arbitration panel ruling by allowing access to the U.S roadways if carriers meet U.S. safety standards.

Some tariffs were aimed at products from DeFazio’s district and from districts from Congressmen who have actively opposed the pilot program, DeFazio added.

www.etrucker.com

Drivers should also be checked for communicable diseases, like the Mexican flu.

They just NEVER STOP!!!! They could care less about Americans safety, just about greed and the North American Union!!!

COMMENT:

TARIFF RATES: IF ITS ILLEGAL TO RAISE THE PRICE SO HIGH, WHY DOESN'T GOV. DO SOMETHING, THATS RIGHT OBAMA WON'T. GO ON
STRIKE, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. YOU ARE THE ONES, I MEAN 'WE' ARE THE ONES GETTING SCREWED, AND YOU HAVE TO STEP UP, AS WE ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND IN OUR OWN NATION.

THINK ABOUT IT?

Welcome, SUSANM! Seems like national interest of American citizens is lagging way behind not insulting the corporate money, who will be insulted if trade and profit are cut off. (Legislators can say bye to campaign contributions if that happens.) Meanwhile, the backbone of the profit--the workers--are losing their jobs, and the Treasury keeps devaluing the money some of us still earn by printing more and more.
Not to sound like a doomsayer, none of this will end well for the US and few even realize or care.

Gets even better with NORPASS

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http://www.alipac.us/article4242.html

Didnt congress vote to stop the Mexican trucks from coming and going as they please.

Yea, butterbean...they did...several times even tried to defund the program.

I posted the below comment on Human Events in 2007. It looks as if this will not end until "they" win.

For all of you who care---try to explain this.
Can't understand when and where and how we got here?---Look below--then say you don't know.

We have been programmed to believe if we vote Republican--everything will be alright. Well---not so.

List of Senators that voted YEA and NAY on Dorgan Amend

NAY votes are votes in support of Mexican trucks entering deep inside the US carrying illegal aliens, drugs, and possibly terrorists, displacing American truckers and putting American drivers at risks.

YEA votes are to cut funding for the Bush Mexican truck pilot program instead.


Alphabetical by Senator Name

Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Craig (R-ID), Not Voting
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dole (R-NC), Yea


Domenici (R-NM), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Martinez (R-FL), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Not Voting
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea


McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Nay
Sununu (R-NH), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (R-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
LP, GA
Sep 13, 2007 @ 11:40 PM

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