MEXICAN TRUCKS: Murray Includes Language in Bill Urging Administration to Act

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) ^ | July 26, 2010 | U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

[mdittmar]

Sets deadline of October 1, 2010 for Administration to act

(Washington, D.C.) –U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) included language in the Fiscal Year 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill that calls on the Administration to put forward a plan that would end retaliatory tariffs on Washington state agricultural products by October 1, 2010. The bill passed the THUD subcommittee, which Murray chairs, as well as the full Appropriations committee, and will now head to the full Senate for consideration.

“I am extremely frustrated that the Administration has not yet acted while farmers across my home state of Washington continue to suffer under Mexico’s retaliatory tariffs,” said Senator Patty Murray. “I am urging both the Obama Administration and the Mexican government to solve this issue and allow Washington state farmers to compete on a level playing field. Since there has been inaction for too long, I included specific language in the transportation spending bill giving the Administration a clear deadline of October 1, 2010 to solve this problem.”

[1rudeboy]

That’s the current situation, yes (although I’m guessing that we still allow Mexican trucks in the buffer-zone, unless Obama changed that also). This dispute involved Mexican trucks licensed to haul cross-country, that happen to have brakes.

[patlin]

How do you tell a Mexican truck from an American truck without profiling?

EASY...

[1rudeboy]

So in other words, because you lived in Mexico for long periods of time, you are qualified to claim that the Mexican trucks involved in this program, with their USDOT numbers, US inspections, US safety decals, and US insurance are not capable of driving on US roads.

The pilot program lasted almost two years, I think. Where was the carnage?

[1rudeboy]

Oh, and the Mexican trucks that you observed in Mexico (with crappy brakes), probably rely more upon engine braking, then US trucks.

[1rudeboy]

oops--than

Hate that.

[Ben Ficklin]

There are Mexican trucks in the US beyond the buffer zone.

Back in 1982 when cross border trucking ended, company owned Mexican trucks were still allowed into the US.

And in 1996, Clinton didn't allow the Mexican trucks in, but Canada did, so there are Mexicans trucks crossing the US to reach Canada.

Hang around I 35 from Laredo to Dallas and I20 from Dallas to Little Rock and you will see some.

[1rudeboy]

That might be, although I've never heard anyone complain about it . . . a Mexican truck might simply be not allowed to deliver or pickup in the United States, but if it is just "passing through . . . ."

Although Heritage did a good study on that a few years ago, also. If your company decides to send a truck on a intracontinental, international jaunt, then it is likely to be in good working order.

[RnMomof7]

The American trucks are the ones with the brakes, the insurance and the mufflers.

And drivers that speak English..ohh yea one more thing..no secret compartments for smuggling people or drugs

[patlin]

So in other words, because you lived in Mexico for long periods of time, you are qualified to claim that the Mexican trucks involved in this program, with their USDOT numbers, US inspections, US safety decals, and US insurance are not capable of driving on US roads...The pilot program lasted almost two years, I think. Where was the carnage?

What an idiot!

You obviously don't travel the routes these trucks took & thus didn't see or personally experience 1st hand the carnage they left behind. They may have been given paperwork & decals, but their equipment is anything but up to the US DOT STANDARDS that we “RED BLOODED AMERICAN PATRIOTIC TRUCKERS” are held to every day and THAT is why the program was discontinued...the Mexicans thought they should be given ‘SPECIAL’ treatment. They are of the same ilk as the illegals who wave the Mexican flag demanding they have American rights under OUR constitution.

[1rudeboy]

Man, I have to laugh . . . if a Mexican truck under this program was involved in some sort of atrocious accident . . . the story would’ve been in Breaking News on FR for weeks.

[1rudeboy]

. . . no secret compartments for smuggling people or drugs

Hey, the program has been scuttled for over a year now . . . how's that smuggling thing working out for us?

[RnMomof7]

Not so well...but business will pick up as soon as they have unfettered access to the roads leading to your house

[1rudeboy]

I love it when a conservative bases an argument on emotion. Keep 'em coming.

I only say that because you reminded me of the final scene in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Don Siegel version).

[La Lydia]

Oh, so you think the US government is going to do an immensely better job monitoring and enforcing the law regarding trucks and truck drivers than it does with people and contraband?

Now THAT is funny.

By the way, I am qualified to describe what I have observed on both sides of the border, unless you are one of those men who prefer that women just shut up and don't have opinions. Which I suspect. By the way, the pilot program was cancelled.

[patlin]

It would have had to make it into mainstream news 1st now wouldn't it have? OH, wait a minute...they did kill a bunch of their own when they tried to smuggle them into the US, but then left them locked in the unventilated & uncooled trailer to die. But sad to say, that never made it into lame stream media either.

I have 3 vacation locations for you..

Nogales, AZ (I-17 corridor); San Ysidro-Chula Vista-National City, CA (I-5 corridor) & Calexico, CA (US HWY 111, Mexican HWY 2 corridor). Travel them sometime but more important, spend some time with the legal US locals in those areas, they have the real stories of how dangerous these trucks are. These corridors have been our main origin & destination points for over 30 years, thus I have logged & worked for the right to speak the truth to this matter.

[1rudeboy]

Mexican trucks have been crossing our border since the 1980's, if I recall. This brouhaha involves allowing them to move beyond the 20-mile buffer zone.

The pilot program was in effect for almost two years. It involved a 100 trucks. None of which mowed you down, or "came to your house," or took your children, or ate them.

The Teamsters didn't want the program, and neither did Sen. Murray. I'm just laughing at how quickly she changed her tune, and how FReepers still stick to the original.

[1rudeboy]

I didn't bother to pull out a map, because I'm simply assuming that you are confusing the short-haulers with the long-haulers. And do you want to see unsafe trucks, brother? Come to Gary, Indiana.

But only come at night, because they're all American, and smart enough not to run in the daytime.

[sionnsar]

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[mdittmar]

Didn't mean to start a fight,I unload Trucks for a living.

Get ya in and out as soon as I can.

[1rudeboy]

This fight has been ongoing since I registered on FR. It amuses me, becuase no one ever brings any facts to the table.

I mean, if you are opposed to illegal immigration, and want to punish Mexican trucking companies who want to do long-haul in the U.S., just admit it . . . don't make crap up about safety, and whatnot. The data isn't there.