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Senate votes to block Mexican trucks from U.S. highways




Associated Press - September 12, 2007 6:53 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has voted to block Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways.

Senators approved a proposal that would prohibit the Transportation Department from spending money on a NAFTA program that would give Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. highways.

Until last week, Mexican trucks had been restricted to commercial border zones.

Supporters of the move say the trucks from Mexico haven't been proven safe, while opponents say the issue is more about limiting competition and could amount to discrimination.

The proposal is part of a $106 billion transportation and housing spending bill that the Senate wants to vote on later this week. The House approved a similar proposal in July as part of its version of the transportation spending bill.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 
Every now and then even the Senate does something right.

From "Western Livestock Reporter", an exerpt on the subject;

"Even as haggling continues over the cross-border trucking program, some Mexican trucking company officials say it's the politicisns - not they- who are interested in opening the border.

"We don't want to go to the United States, and the Americans don't want to go to Mexico", said Rolando Ortega, a delegate from the Matamoros, Mexico chapter of the National Confereration of Mexican Cariers, which has 280,000 members. "It doesn't reflect the reality of the transportation industry."

Mexican trucking companies that deliver to the U.S. border zone already are struggling with rising insurance rates, longer lines to cross into the U.S. and a lack of credit to buy trucks, said Ortega, who owns 18 trucks.

Only large carriers will haul cargo from Houston to Hidalgo or Memphis to Monterrey, some Mexican trucking company executives say. "The only companies that want to do that are the trans-national companies and the companies that move their own cargo," said Oscar Garza, a delegate for the Reynosa chapter of the Confederation of Mexican Carriers.

Many Mexican truckers cannot read signs in English, are unfamiliar with the U.S. highway systerm and don't know how to find cargo in the U.S. for their return trip to Mexico, said Garaza, show once owned 35 trucks and now only has one because of decreased profitability.
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Trans-national carriers, multi-national packers... 'ol W sure likes to sell out his own for his global dream...
 
Good...........scary thing to be on I35,and have one of those slick tired overloaded bad braked junks tail gating you .
good luck
 
Well my two remembered whose buttering their bread again- and voted the right way....Altho ol Baucus is usually a free trader...
 
Mexican junkers my AZZ. Americans don't run junkers because inspections and enforcement disallow it. When DOT sez fixit before you move it, it costs twice the price. If a missing valve cap or burned out clearance light gets you a $100 ticket, you try to avoid these problems. Mexican trucks face the same chicken coops that keep American trucks in line.


This is about protectionism. A US trucker willing to live on the road can make up to $100k/yr; a Mexican driver would live out of a truck for $30k or less

My problem is that Mexican truckers should have green cards (real ones) or this trucking deal circumvents US guest worker laws.
 
Brad S said:
Mexican junkers my AZZ. Americans don't run junkers because inspections and enforcement disallow it. When DOT sez fixit before you move it, it costs twice the price. If a missing valve cap or burned out clearance light gets you a $100 ticket, you try to avoid these problems. Mexican trucks face the same chicken coops that keep American trucks in line.


This is about protectionism. A US trucker willing to live on the road can make up to $100k/yr; a Mexican driver would live out of a truck for $30k or less

My problem is that Mexican truckers should have green cards (real ones) or this trucking deal circumvents US guest worker laws.
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You think it's wise having drivers who can't even read a simple road sign hauling tons of cargo on the same road as your family?
 
No I don't think drivers should be unable to speak english, but that ship already sailed - you can take a Kansas or Nebraska test in spanish. Furthermore, most Mexicans have working English (especially those intrusted with such a large capitol good like a truck.
 
Brad S said:
No I don't think drivers should be unable to speak english, but that ship already sailed - you can take a Kansas or Nebraska test in spanish. Furthermore,
most Mexicans have working English
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(especially those intrusted with such a large capitol good like a truck.
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You dont know what the hell you are talking about,these meskin junkers have caused more trouble and problems along I35 into laredo the DPS cannot keep up with them all.
And for your information most cannot speak read or write english,there is a large truck stop on I35 south of San Antonio that I stop in to buy diesel,try to talk to one of them in english .........no habla :???:
good luck
PS most meskins have working english,you need to get out more. :roll:
 
Brad S said:
No I don't think drivers should be unable to speak english, but that ship already sailed - you can take a Kansas or Nebraska test in spanish. Furthermore, most Mexicans have working English (especially those intrusted with such a large capitol good like a truck.
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"We don't want to go to the United States, and the Americans don't want to go to Mexico", said Rolando Ortega, a delegate from the Matamoros, Mexico chapter of the National Confereration of Mexican Cariers, which has 280,000 members. "It doesn't reflect the reality of the transportation industry."
 
you are all hypocrites in my books!!!
American businesses run roughshod over the entire planet.
What the hell is wrong with a Mexican delivering his product to the final destination as long as his truck meets your DOT specs?
 
Elwapo, "...as long as his truck meets your DOT specs"

There's your problem right there, along with emissions, insurance, language barrier, driver's records, cargo inspections, etc...
 
SandHusker, that part about not wanting to run trucking in the US is crapola. You know as well as me a truck bringing up rebuilt starters will be dispatched back and fourth before finally hauling scrap south. I really do think all the DOT inspections make it uneconomical to drive junk.

American businesses don't "run roughshod over the planet" - that's just an ignorant smear
 
Brad S said:
SandHusker, that part about not wanting to run trucking in the US is crapola. You know as well as me a truck bringing up rebuilt starters will be dispatched back and fourth before finally hauling scrap south. I really do think all the DOT inspections make it uneconomical to drive junk.

American businesses don't "run roughshod over the planet" - that's just an ignorant smear
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Two Mexicans against one Jayhawk. Might be an even fight, but certainly lop sided testimony.
 
Call it what you want. You anti traders will use any excuse to spread the bigotry and misinformation. If the rest of the world is so much beneath you shut the doors and turn the gas on.
 
elwapo said:
Call it what you want. You anti traders will use any excuse to spread the bigotry and misinformation. If the rest of the world is so much beneath you shut the doors and turn the gas on.
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I don't know anybody who is anti-trade. I'm certainly not, we need trade. What I'm against is this cult of "Free Trade" that requires one to throw all sense out the window and place "trade" on the highest pillar.
 
hold on, I accused you of a smear first, you're the biggot elwapo. Isn't race baiting all about dismissing someone as a biggot first then you needn't treat them as a person. There's a great deal of irony here.

I'm not sure I'm proven a biggot because I'm certain Mexican trucks will bounce back and fourth. Perhaps the circumvention of our green card status is acceptible to some - not me. If a driver is going to be in the US more than 48 hours, he needs a green card.
 

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