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Fed fights for Mexican trucks
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press Writer
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters surrounded herself with some well-known U.S. exports - corn, rice and Jack Daniel's whiskey - to dramatize her warning Monday of economic losses if Mexican trucks are kept off U.S. roads.
Peters is fighting in court against a law that sought to end a pilot project allowing Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. roads.
The North American Free Trade Agreement gave Mexican trucks the access beginning in 1995. But the U.S. only opened the roads to a few trucks when the pilot program began last September.
Long-standing opposition from labor and safety groups had kept the trucks off most U.S. roads. Without the program, Mexican trucks are confined to about 25 miles beyond the border where goods they bring are picked up by a U.S. truck driver to deliver throughout the U.S.
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http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/521463.html
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press Writer
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters surrounded herself with some well-known U.S. exports - corn, rice and Jack Daniel's whiskey - to dramatize her warning Monday of economic losses if Mexican trucks are kept off U.S. roads.
Peters is fighting in court against a law that sought to end a pilot project allowing Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. roads.
The North American Free Trade Agreement gave Mexican trucks the access beginning in 1995. But the U.S. only opened the roads to a few trucks when the pilot program began last September.
Long-standing opposition from labor and safety groups had kept the trucks off most U.S. roads. Without the program, Mexican trucks are confined to about 25 miles beyond the border where goods they bring are picked up by a U.S. truck driver to deliver throughout the U.S.
Excerpt
http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/521463.html