Canacar says no

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Land Line Magazine: The Business Magazine for Professional Truckers
SPECIAL REPORT: Mexican carriers want out of pilot program

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 – A trade association representing Mexican motor carriers has asked the Mexican Senate to cancel the cross-border pilot program with the United States.

“CANACAR has formally requested not to open the borders for trans-border services and to have the pilot program suspended until conditions for a fair competitive environment are existing and that the Mexican trucking industry has the guarantee of not being subject to unfair inequitable and discretional treatment by U.S. authorities,” CANACAR National President Tirso Martinez Angheben wrote in a press release.

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From the article

The CANACAR president told the committee that opening the border will not have any benefits to Mexico because:

* Transportation prices in Mexico are lower than in the USA;
* It will cause transportation prices in Mexico to increase;
* It will not accelerate the border crossing process;
* It will generate strong pressure on salaries paid to Mexican drivers, which in turn will increase the cost of domestic freight in Mexico; and
* The Mexican government lacks the capacity and infrastructure to supervise U.S. carriers entering Mexico and to prevent foreign companies from providing domestic transportation only reserved for Mexican nationals.

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Originally Posted by hillbilly frog

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