1st U.S. truck drives into Mexico after UScongress bars Mexican (but not Canadian) trucks into U.S.

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So here's the falsity. The outcry here at DU and beyond is against Mexican trucks and drivers operating in the U.S. because they are supposedly unsafe, environmentally unsound, scabs, and non-English speaking---yes, the TRUCKS should be made to SPEAK ENGLISH!!1 Btw, the first Mexican trucks that PENETRATED our virgin U.S. completed their round trip without incident of ANY sort. Yet Canadian trucking has been proceeding right along since who-knows-when. And now U.S. trucks are operating in Mexico. Even with the SUPERIORITY of the U.S. trucks and drivers, it might be said that they will not operate safely in Mexico because of the narrow, winding, mountainous roads --not to mention the U.S. drivers' non-Spanish speakingness, their national characteristic of honoring ignorance of other cultures and languages.

Since we cannot agree here at DU over this issue, let's set the economics aside and move on to the COLONIALISM implicit in the whole situation. Yes, it really *does* sound like White drivers are safer, more intelligent, superior, with more NATURAL RIGHT to do as they please, higher in every way---penetrate into whosever country!!1

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http://azdailysun.com/articles/2007/09/15/news/local/20070915_local_news_11.txt

First U.S. commercial truck drives into Mexico roads

By
Associated Press
Saturday, September 15, 2007



WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S.-owned commercial truck became the first to drive deep into Mexico on Friday, days after the Senate voted to quit funding a program allowing Mexican trucks to do the same in the United States. ....




"Today is historic. We're giving U.S. trucking companies the opportunity to compete in a new market that they have never before been allowed to penetrate," said John Hill, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to prevent Mexican trucks from getting more access to U.S. highways by prohibiting spending on an ongoing pilot project. The House has taken similar action.

The measures are attached to separate transportation spending bills that must still be reconciled. ....




Trucks from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. were given access to roadways in all three countries under the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in 1993.

But opposition from organized labor and safety groups delayed Mexican trucks from driving further into the U.S.


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