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Two U.S. senators today urged tougher regulations aimed at improving bus safety in response to last week’s deadly accident that killed 17 Vietnamese Catholics from Houston.

Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued statements calling for the passage of their legislation, known as the Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act.

The pair introduced the bill, which would require bus owners to provide seat belts, fire extinguishers and other safety enhancements, last fall after a bus crash in Georgia killed several college athletes from an Ohio college.

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So what’s going on here? Are we so fixated on legally operated, safe Mexican Cross Border trucks that we totally ignore the commercial bus industry in the United States?

On the heels of Friday morning deadly crash in Sherman Texas that killed 17 and injured more than 35 people when the recapped steering tire blew out on a charter bus being illegally operated by Angel Tours of Houston, we have two more incidents involving motor coaches.

A casino bus also was involved in an accident Sunday in Mississippi that killed three people and injured more than 30.

The bus belonging to Harrah’s Tunica was carrying 43 people when it overturned at an intersection in Tunica, authorities said. Rain was falling at the time but Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Leslie White would not speculate on the cause of the wreck.

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The mystery of diesel fuel disappearing from trucks in Seguin appeared solved this week when a San Antonio man with a specially rigged pickup was arrested on theft charges, police said.

Yan Gomez, 30, was caught Wednesday as he pumped fuel from a truck, said Lt. J. San Miguel of the Seguin Police.

“He had a Ford pickup with a spare tank in the back, and long hose he’d put into the tanks of the semis. He also had an electric pump,” San Miguel said.

Gomez was charged with theft and later released on $1,000 bond. His truck was impounded.

Police said he was spotted by a driver at Jud’s Truck Stop, and a nearby Seguin motorcycle officer was called to the scene.

“He caught him in the act. He didn’t even get out of the parking lot, and the hose was still dripping diesel,” said San Miguel, who continues to receive complaints from truckers who lost fuel.

“I don’t know what this guy has been doing in San Antonio. This guy is an independent trucker himself. I don’t know if he was supplying his own truck or selling it,” he said.

It had not been determined if Mr Gomez was a member of OOIDA, the organization founded to support independent truckers.

It was no surprise when FMCSA Administrator John Hill extended the Mexican Cross Border Program for another two years, thus beating the opposition at their own game.

You see, FMCSA has been calling it a “demonstration program” while the opposition called it a “pilot program” which operates under different requirements, requirements that FMCSA has met.

So John Hill, using the oppositions definition of the program, extends it to 3 years as is permitted for a “pilot program”, and Jimmy Hoffa is furious!

I’m mad as hell about it, but I’m not surprised. - Jimmy Hoffa -

What is Jimmy “mad as hell about? That all the money that has found it’s way into the hip pockets of his politicians hasn’t yielded the intended results? Maybe.

I think Jimmy is further pissed because Mexican law forbids him and his union from organizing in that country. Canada allows it and we don’t hear any objections from him about Canadian trucks.

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The violations discovered in the bus belonging to Angel Tours that crashed in Sherman Texas Friday morning points to the stupidty and ignorance of a small percentage of people obsessed with ending the Cross Border Pilot Program, which has operated safely for the past 11 months, while ignoring American common carriers who flaunt and ignore the laws and rules thinking it does not apply to them, the bus crash Friday in Sherman Texas that claimed 16 lives is a prime example.

The owner of Angel Tours, 59-year-old Angel de la Torre, should be arrested and detained WITHOUT BAIL and charged with 16 counts of NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE! The idiot bus driver also!

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McALLEN -(The Monitor) The former owner of an Edinburg. Texas trucking business was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for his role in a drug smuggling and money laundering ring.

A federal jury in Houston found Ricardo Garcia Heredia, 44, of McAllen, guilty in May of multiple counts of conspiracy and drug possession.

Prosecutors allege Garcia used his business - Edinburg-based Earth Transportation - as a front to recruit drivers for cocaine shipments that passed through the Rio Grande Valley on their way to Chicago.

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