First Mexican truck to cross Texas border for U.S. interior Friday

SAN DIEGO — The first Mexican carrier is set to
roll over the border into Texas and head along Interstate 35 toward the
U.S. interior within days, but the Teamsters union and two California
congressmen haven’t given up on stopping the cross-border trucking
program that had been stalled for years by safety concerns and political
wrangling.

U.S. Reps. Duncan Hunter and Bob Filner joined Teamsters President James
Hoffa at the border Wednesday to take a bipartisan stand against the
pilot project that will let approved Mexican trucks come deep into the
U.S. The first Mexican truck will enter Texas on Friday on a route
likely to take it through Austin.

The lawmakers and Hoffa were surrounded by more than 75 union members at
a news conference near a major border crossing in San Diego. Hunter is a
San Diego-area Republican, and Filner is a Democrat whose district
includes California’s border with Mexico.

Allowing Mexican trucking companies to deliver the goods rather than
transfer them to U.S. haulers at the border will put American jobs and
highway safety at risk, they said.

“We’re literally taking good jobs here in America and passing them over the line to Mexico,” Hunter said.

Subjects – Mexican trucking, NAFTA, Texas, Duncan Hunter, safety.

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