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May 26, 2007

MEXICANS`S TRUCKS DEBATE * USA

* Pilot program restrictions expected to pass Congress
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -May 24, 2007: -- A supplemental spending bill has emerged from a congressional conference committee with a provision restricting the Mexican cross-border program attempt by the Bush administration... The DOT faces a lot more paperwork before launching the pilot program if the bill is signed into law... The bill would mandate a list of laws and regulations, including commercial driver’s license requirements, that the Secretary of Transportation will accept compliance with a corresponding Mexican law. That notice will also have to include an analysis of how the U.S. and Mexican laws and regulations differ...

* Border Opening, SafeStat Scores
Mechanicsville,Va,USA -TTNews, Letters to the Editor, by Stephen Bradley (Overland Distribution Corp.) -22 May 2007: -- Opening the border to Mexican trucks will hurt the American trucker and thousands of owner-operators. By allowing Mexican trucks in, we will lose thousands of dollars in road taxes... Who is going to make them pay what we do in taxes?... Also, if we open the border to Mexican trucks, who is going to police them?... Who is going to foot the bill?... The American people and the politicians need to open their eyes and see what the real problems are going to be. A lot of Americans are going to lose their jobs if we open the borders. The Mexican truckers will drive our already suffering freight rates into the ground. They will start hauling freight for little or nothing. Most of their trucks are junk — scrap buckets...

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