Editors Note: And the program continues quietly, as it should while the critics pat themselves on the backs thinking they have stopped it. As Melissa Delaney of FMCSA was recently quoted as saying, “There is no requirement for a demonstration program”, it’s something to keep in mind. President Bush, with a stroke of the pen, can allow Mexican trucks into this country by lifting the 1982 moratorium. This action would invalidate any laws Congress has attempted to pass and make the frivolous lawsuits filed by OOIDA and the Teamsters, null and void. Perhaps, President Bush should consider this. But until then, the Mexican trucks are here, operating safely as we said they would.
WASHINGTON – Transportes Padilla, a Tijuana-based trucking company, is the third Mexican trucking company to receive authority to make long-haul deliveries in the U.S. as part of the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a Department of Transportation statement released late Monday afternoon said.
The company intends to operate three vehicles.
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