August 17, 2007

Mexican trucks to be allowed to carry cargo on U.S. highways (NAFTA)

Mexican truckers are currently limited to operating withing 25 miles of the border, but a new one year pilot program will soon start allowing 100 companies to travel anywhere they want. All that's standing in the way is approval of safety plans by the Transportation Department's inspector general; if problems are found they'll be corrected first. This was announced today, and in the Federal Register so it wasn't exactly like the Bush administration was trying to shout about it from the rooftops. And:

The Transportation Department acknowledged that most of the 2,300 public comments on the project challenged its safety and economic effects. But the agency concluded the demonstration, involving about 10 percent of the Mexican truckers who applied, "is sufficient to determine whether the safety oversight program" can ensure there will be no erosion of highway safety.

I'd imagine there will be such an erosion, but paid or amateur hacks will be on call in the case of an accident to blame it on other things.

Posted to Immigration2007b at August 17, 2007 05:18 PM

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