Mexican trucks to circulate freely in U.S.

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[ambrose]

Mexican trucks to circulate freely in U.S.

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Washington, D.C., U.S., November 27, 2002 (EFE) - The U.S. government will allow the free circulation of Mexican trucks in its territory starting in January under a directive signed Wednesday by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta.

"President (George W.) Bush has made good on his commitment to open the border to international trucking and cross-border regular route bus service. This will help increase trade between our countries," said a statement issued by Mineta.

The Transportation Department will review applications filed by 130 Mexican passenger and cargo transportation companies seeking to operate in the United States.

The companies will undergo security inspections and will be required to get insurance and make maintenance arrangements with U.S. firms. Their drivers will also be subjected to periodic drug and alocohol testing.

This provision will lift the last restrictions imposed on Mexican trucking and represents compliance with the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by Canada, the United States and Mexico in 1994.

Under pressure from U.S. trucking unions, President Bill Clinton's 1992-2000 administration kept out Mexican trucks, citing safety concerns.

Currently, Mexican trucks are allowed on U.S. roads only within a narrow strip 35 kilometers (21 miles) of the border.

According to official data, 4.3 million entries and departures were recorded last year along the common border. EFE

[oceanperch]

You are a reconquita and are at fault for the downward spiral of western civilization! LOL

[oceanperch]

No probably the oppisite.
The truckers will be paying for insurance and blame that on price increase just as they have blamed rising prices on the drug war.

[Ben Ficklin]

Another thing that is not mentioned on any of the Mexican truck threads is the back haul.

These Mexis can't do interstate hauling. International only. This would put serious limitations on their profitability because the further away from the border they get, the harder it would be to find a backhaul and without a backhaul, there is no profit.

To solve this problem, the Mexis had to develop relationships with US trucking firms. In other words, US trucking companies have bought into Mexican trucking companies. Usually at the 50% level. Although I don't know any specifics, it is likely that some Mexican trucking companies have bought into US companies.

And this is part of the rub. These US companies that made the investment in contemplation of phase-in of NAFTA trucking regs were denied the chance to make a profit on that investment. But the Teamsters benefitted.

This whole thing is just another pile of dog doo that Clinton left behind for Bush to clean-up.

[madfly]

Don't be too sure.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usassi/ssipubs/pubs2002/21cntury/21cntury.pdf

. . . I think we shortchange ourselves in our own hemisphere from not paying more attention beyond the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which obviously is very important.1
Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

We seek not just neighbors but strong partners. We seek not just progress but shared prosperity. With persistence and courage, we shaped the last century into an American century. With leadership and commitment, this can be the century of the Americas…. Should I become president, I will look south, not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental commitment to my presidency.2
Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX)

Introduction and Significant Trends.
Each century there are few opportunities for a major power—such as the United States—to make a monumental change in grand strategy for an important region of the world. Today, the nation states of the Western Hemisphere possess a fleeting moment to create a new community. Regionalism is on the rise around the world and in the Americas, and with it comes new ways of interacting economically, politically, socially, and militarily. States devote considerable thought and planning to economic issues, particularly trade, but precious little has been devoted to the security cooperation imperative that arises from these other integration areas.

[Tancredo Fan]

Even Clinton thought more of the lives of Americans and our sovereignty to allow this to happen. Now it will be a non-stop flood of wretched illegal aliens and drugs. I hear that only a handful of these rolling invasion machines will be inspected. This is an outrage. Mexico is far more dangerous than Iraq.

[madfly]

It's both parties. This involves NAFTA and FTAA. Please don't say nice things about Clinton, lol.

The main reason I am a recovering, er, recovered liberal and New Conservative because of his and her lies.

[madfly]

It's both parties. This involves NAFTA and FTAA. Please don't say nice things about Clinton, lol.

The main reason I am a recovering, er, recovered liberal and New Conservative because of his and her lies.

[madfly]

see #43

[FITZ]

Oh no, they'll want bilingual signs.

I doubt they'll have to prove they are even literate. It's insane to allow foreigners in big trucks access to all our highways if they don't have even minimal English language ability. Why have signs at all?

[FITZ]

I hear that only a handful of these rolling invasion machines will be inspected.

I read that Mexican bus companies are to be included ----how easy now for illegals to travel to their destination, they can board a bus in Mexico and go whereever they please.

[c-b 1]

Why the hell should I care? Four hundred and thirty some-odd Congressmen, 100 Senators and one Presdent don't. More than half the folks on this forum don't.

I think they do care, it is all part of George HW Bush's "New World Order," they care about pushing forward with it. It gets worse, state, county, and city elected officials have been brainwashed into helping the cause along.
It is becoming more obvious every day, that those of us who oppose it are going to be squashed like bugs.

[Tancredo Fan]

Don't get me wrong.... Bill and Hillbillary are still known as the loathsone commie twosome around here. I just thought Bush would try to straighten out their 8 years of nation wrecking. Alas, it ain't happening.

[FITZ]

We cannot get sthem to return water they have taken from us, why would you expect them to pay for a wreck??

They don't reimburse us for all the free medical care their citizens are getting ---the Mexican government will not pay for any damage done to American citizens by the accidents their truck drivers cause or are involved in.

[FITZ]

The inspection stations are all built and staffed.

And for 18 months these trucks and buses don't need to pass any inspection.

[DoughtyOne]

Given price will be half what it is today, H1-B will come to the rescue. In every way possible to wages in the US are being beaten down to next to nothing.

[DoughtyOne]

Depressing!

[DoughtyOne]

Good point. Anotherwords US truckers will suffer displacement on the return hauls. Cheaper Mexican laber will replace yet another sector of the US economy.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Trucking, yet another American industry on the way out. Oh well some say slaveryis not all that bad once one gets used to it!

[dagnabbit]

We took back the Senate -

Now let's take back the White House!