In a move to encourage competition by opening the US border to Mexican trucks, the latest is that there wont even be a thousand Mexican trucks crossing the border in this pilot program, according to the DOT. Also these companies will only be transporting international freight. They will not be authorized to transport domestic deliveries between the US cities.  The big US trucking companies are okay with this plan. Truckers like Con-way Inc. and other biggies are supportive of opening the border to let Mexican trucks in to speed up trade and save costs. The American Trucking Associations also support this pilot plan of letting in the Mexican trucks. Oddly, when the ATA met at their HQ last week they were said to have been all for letting the Mexican trucks compete with the US trucking companies on an equal footing.

In any case the ATA insists that Mexican companies will also be bound by the same stringent US regulations that the US trucking companies are expected to stick to – in terms of highway safety, occupational safety, the environment, insurance, taxes, fees and finance.

The Teamsters President voiced that the union is against opening the border since it would mean letting in unsafe Mexican trucks to be on the US highways, compromising highway safety and national security. There is no way arrangements can be made to keep an eye on those Mexican trucks.

Lets keep a track of this to see how it turns out.!

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