DOT REQUESTS COMMENTS OVER UNSAFE MEXICAN TRUCKS
The Department of Transportation is requesting public comments on its proposal to open the southern border to unsafe Mexican trucks reports FAXDC. Here is YOUR chance to have your voice heard. Fax and Email Congress today!
Pressure Congress to take action now! Tell Washington today that we need to protect our sovereignty because Bush won't.
Already The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Bush administration can skip a lengthy environmental study and open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes. The high court ruled against labor and environmental organizations that have long fought expansion of Mexican trucking within the borders of the United States.
The Supreme Court VOTES out America:
1. The BUSH administration can skip a lengthy environmental study and open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes.
2. The BUSH administration has authority to open the border.
3. Federal agency responsible for truck safety has no say in the matter.
The plan raises several serious concerns, including:
- The impact on homeland security initiatives. Will the drivers be checked against the terror watch list or will our borders be open to anyone with a Mexican driver’s license?
- Will the drivers be required to carry a Mexican passport as U.S. citizens are required to present their passports when entering the country from Mexico or Canada?
- The DOT has been disingenuous about this pilot program, indicating only a few weeks ago that it was not pursuing this pilot program. What else are they lying about?
- Enforcement of hours of service in Mexico, false log books and fatigued drivers entering the U.S.
- The application of U.S. standards to Mexican drivers including the requirement that U.S. drivers have a Commercial Drivers License, undergo regular physicals and meet minimum age requirements.
- The integrity of drug and alcohol testing. Though testing will be done in U.S. labs, it is unclear who will oversee the collection of random samples creating a system ripe for abuse.
- Enforcement of U.S. wage and hour laws.
- DOT’s assertion that all trucks will be inspected by U.S. officials in Mexico and at the U.S. border when less than ten percent of all Mexican trucks entering the commercial zone are inspected now.
Pressure Congress to take action now! Tell Washington today that we need to protect our sovereignty because Bush won't.
Already The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Bush administration can skip a lengthy environmental study and open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes. The high court ruled against labor and environmental organizations that have long fought expansion of Mexican trucking within the borders of the United States.
The Supreme Court VOTES out America:
1. The BUSH administration can skip a lengthy environmental study and open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes.
2. The BUSH administration has authority to open the border.
3. Federal agency responsible for truck safety has no say in the matter.
The plan raises several serious concerns, including:
- The impact on homeland security initiatives. Will the drivers be checked against the terror watch list or will our borders be open to anyone with a Mexican driver’s license?
- Will the drivers be required to carry a Mexican passport as U.S. citizens are required to present their passports when entering the country from Mexico or Canada?
- The DOT has been disingenuous about this pilot program, indicating only a few weeks ago that it was not pursuing this pilot program. What else are they lying about?
- Enforcement of hours of service in Mexico, false log books and fatigued drivers entering the U.S.
- The application of U.S. standards to Mexican drivers including the requirement that U.S. drivers have a Commercial Drivers License, undergo regular physicals and meet minimum age requirements.
- The integrity of drug and alcohol testing. Though testing will be done in U.S. labs, it is unclear who will oversee the collection of random samples creating a system ripe for abuse.
- Enforcement of U.S. wage and hour laws.
- DOT’s assertion that all trucks will be inspected by U.S. officials in Mexico and at the U.S. border when less than ten percent of all Mexican trucks entering the commercial zone are inspected now.
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