Thread: Mexican Truck Danger: Back Hauling in Long Haul Trucking

September 7, 2007
From a reader on the blessings of opening American borders to Mexican trucks

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Posted by D.A. King at 11:57 pm
August 31, 2007

Subject: Back Hauling in Long Haul Trucking

Description: Back Hauling is the process whereby large trucking companies decrease operational cost per mile by coordinating transport of other material on return trips.

Example: Eighteen wheeler leaves Florida hauling produce with a Seattle Safeway destination. Hauler unloads and would ordinarily drive back to Florida empty. This is costly so the trucking company plans ahead by scheduling a pickup in Seattle of Apples for a return to Florida. Now loaded with apples this truck is hauling freight both ways. This is normal operation in trucking.

Note - The International Commerce Commission regulates trucking and forbids backhauling of hazardous, toxic or contaminated cargo to be “back hauledâ€

We already have examples of what contamination in trucks and tankers can do in this country. What about the guy who hauled dioxane for dupont and then filled the tanker with oil and spread it in Times Beach, MO. contaminating the entire community. Or the tanker that hauled lacquer for furniture and then loaded the tanker with orange juice and the lacquer peeled off into the orange juice. The dangers of these mexican trucks could be detriminal to all Americans health and mortality.