540 trucks to participate

There's 540 hauling jobs lost to foreign workers. Goodbye.

And let's not forget that this could have ramifications for jobs at our shipping ports.
If China can truck their toxic junk straight through from Mexico then why unload at USA ports?


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U.S. expected to permit Mexican trucks on Friday
Thu Sep 6, 2007 7:22PM EDT

By John Crawley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-haul Mexican trucks will be permitted to operate freely on U.S. roads as early as Friday, 13 years after a cross-border trade agreement lifted restrictions on where they could haul goods, officials said.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat and chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on road safety, said

on Thursday the Bush administration had told him the 1-year pilot program would start then. Other lawmakers also said it would be as early as Friday.

Mexican trucks are currently restricted to areas just inside the U.S. border crossings where goods are loaded on American trucks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0129981820070906?pageNumber=2&sp=true

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The Longshoremen have been one of the most vocal unions on social issues and against the war, the Teamsters have been pretty good too. If they bust them, we're in big trouble. Too many people are not seeing this long term and are only looking at it in terms of an attack on Mexican immigrants.