Panel OKs bill to end Mexican truck travel

Union Tribune ^ | Aug. 1, 2008 | Paul M. Krawzak

[AuntB]

Last year Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced H.R. 1756, entitled "The North American Free Trade Agreement Safety Act" to try to control these trucks.

[Soliton]

Is there any actual statistics on accidents caused by these trucks?

[Psycho_Bunny]

"U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters has not said whether she plans to continue the program after Sept. 6"

Mary needs to leave public service.

[DoughtyOne]

Still in the investigate, study, learn, phase I see.

[Soliton]

I am pretty well studied up on the subject at hand.

[DoughtyOne]

Then why are you asking, and not stating?

[AuntB]

“Is there any actual statistics on accidents caused by these trucks?”

The program hasn’t been around long enough for ‘statistics’.
Would it matter if there were? We have plenty of documentation of the thousands of deaths caused by illegal aliens but that hasn’t stopped the open border crowd, has it?

[1rudeboy]

No, there aren’t, really. Which should give you an indication of why they aren’t plastered over the news.

[Soliton]

The program hasn’t been around long enough for ‘statistics’.

If there is no evidence of a problem, why do the union's bidding and end a competitive, free market program?

[1rudeboy]

Mexican trucks have been operating in the buffer zone (and in a few cases, farther) for decades.

[1rudeboy]

You had to figure they were out of bullets when the greenies and the Teamsters filed suit to stop the trucks because they are “dirty.” Now that the Dems control Congress (and it’s an Election Year), all bets are off.

[AuntB]

This isn’t about the ‘buffer zone’ is it?

[1rudeboy]

This isn’t about the ‘safety’ is it?

[Soliton]

Obama will definitely promise to end the program before he extends it.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

If President Bush and Republicans had stood up for America, rather than actively assisting and promoting the treasonous pilfering of our nation by so-called “free traders”, Dems wouldn’t control congress.

Now, Dems have been handed one of the most powerful issues in history.

And the worst part is - they’re right.

[1rudeboy]

You really have to wonder . . . the Dems have been jerking the Teamsters/AFL-CIO for so long that one would think there has to be some payback.

Seeing that Obama is a Marxist, this might just be the point.

[ikka]

The Texas DPS has a checkpoint directly after the US Border checkpoint. They check the trucks and then require them to be safe before they can leave. However this is only done in Texas. Indications are that many trucks are very unsafe, however google does not seem to have the articles I remember reading in their search index.

However, the real issue is that just like Canadian truckers, they will not adhere to the terms of the agreement, which is to go back and forth from US to Mexico, and will instead start doing US to US location trucking.

[pissant]

Good. I hope they are successful. They have already busted truckloads of illegals. Even ones in a water tanker truck. How special.

[1rudeboy]

Now? Sorry, I’ve been following this issue since Ronald Reagan proposed NAFTA. You can pound the square peg into the round hole as much as you wish, but this issue has been around a lot longer than President Bush.

[Soliton]

However, the real issue is that just like Canadian truckers, they will not adhere to the terms of the agreement, which is to go back and forth from US to Mexico, and will instead start doing US to US location trucking.

If they do, then we should take action