[Joe Boucher]

Please inform me why that would be?
Honest, not kidding, I thought open border trucking would hurt union trucking most.
From what I hear Mexican trucks have to come here use union workers to unload then load on to American trucks close to the border before their cargo can go on.
I have been wrong many times in the past.

[bwc2221]

Diesel fuel is at $3.33 a gallon (nationwide average) according to the Department of Energy. That's up 53 cents from last year. A typical diesel tractor gets about 6-7 miles to the gallon.

When diesel fuel was at record prices about two years ago, tens of thousands of independent truckers lost their rigs. Major trucking companies (which have union drivers) are able to negotiate better fuel prices than the independents. Believe me, this isn't going to help them.

[Alberta's Child]

They don't make a lot of noise about it (understandably), but behind the scenes, the American Trucking Association is a big supporter of the cross-border trucking initiative.

It sounds counter-intuitive, but I think a lot of the big U.S. trucking outfits (J.B. Hunt, Schneider, etc.) have plans in place -- if they haven't already started -- to buy Mexican trucking firms as subsidiaries and use them as much as possible for moving loads to the U.S. (and eventually within the U.S.).