Teamsters to Bush Administration: "Obey the Law"
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today reminded the Bush administration that Congress ordered a stop to the pilot program allowing trucks from Mexico on our highways.
Congress banned funding for the cross-border trucking program as part of the omnibus spending bill passed Wednesday. The Teamsters fought the pilot project from the start because of real concerns that trucks from Mexico aren’t safe.
“We expect the Bush administration to stop this program in its tracks the instant the bill is signed,” said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. “However, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has shown over and over that it can’t be trusted to obey the law.
“If FMCSA doesn’t halt long-haul trucks from Mexico at the border, you can bet the Teamsters will be in court to stop them,” Hoffa said.
The Teamsters are already in court—the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco—to halt the cross-border truck pilot project. The spending bill only bans funding for the 2008 budget year, which ends Sept. 30.
“The pilot program was illegal in the first place,” Hoffa said. “Now Congress has made it absolutely clear that it would be lawless for FMCSA to continue it.
The case is expected to be heard in February.
Some trucks from Mexico have been allowed to travel beyond the narrow border zone since earlier this year under the Bush administration’s unsafe pilot program.
1 comment:
Jimmy Hoffa is a fool who should enjoy the same fate as his father, for the same reasons, including gross stupidity.
The program will not halt. There has not nor is there anything illegal about the program, except for the US government ignoring the mandate that established the program in the first place.
Dangerous trusks? It's been proven time and again that Mexican line haul trucks are the same as those in the US.
It has been proven that Mexican carriers have a much safer record than American and Candians.
This is nothing buy protectionism pure and simple.
And strangely enough, Mexican trucks on US highways will have no more affect on Teamsters nor the American public than Canadian trucks have had.
And everyone seems to forget the 850-1300 Mexican companies grandfathered in in 1982.
Why are the current 55 trucks more dangerous and unsafe than the others
Find the truck at http://mexicotrucker.com
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