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Originally Posted by TruckDiver  Well,I believe that giving Mexican trucks access was part of the NAFTA boondoggle. Wonder which President allowed that to happen...................
Can Congress pass a law that efffect a treaty?
And wouldn't that treaty have to be renegotiated if it conflicts with US law?
First Mexican cars and now trucks. Here in Texas, I'm seeing more and more vehicles with Mexican plates, when is this stuff gonna quit? |
The original goal of NAFTA, Clinton era, was to provide reinforcement to the expected shortfall of projected employment in the US. It was geared toward bringing Mexico up to par w/the US and Canada, while keeping the shortfall of workers from happening. With the usual economic exploitation by corporate America and flunky politicians, this grew into a world wide free for all, at the expense of the US middle class.
Many companies that relocated to Mexico as a result of NAFTA, closed their Mexican operations and moved them to foreign countries, to exploit all the other trade agreements made after Clinton was in office.
The Mexican trucking provision of NAFTA requires Mexico have in place a similar standard of checks and balances comparable to US DOT requirements. This is something our current administation is choosing to overlook in their zealous attempt to drop trucking wages, so that diesel can be pushed above the $4 per gallon mark. Also worth mentioning here, is the recent support of our administration for US produced Ethynol as a required percentage of US gasoline usage. The advertised theory is that the administration is thinking Green. If you read between the lines, you can attribute this to cost factors. South America makes theirs from Sugar Cane, which is inexpensive and high yield. The US version is corn based and is not cost effective to produce unless the price of gasoline is about $3 per gallon or more. By mandating its usage, our administration has essentially guaranteed the oil companies a $3 per gallon floor on gas prices forever. Since diesel is a by product of gasoline production, they can charge more for diesel, claiming it to be in shorter supply.
If anyone has access to the numbers, I would love to see how truck usage of diesel changed when the DOT mandated the change in hours of service. I would think mandating trucks be parked for 10 hours and losing the efficiency of being able to split your break in OTR operations, caused a profound increase in idle times.
One other thing, just in the paper worth bringing up also regarding employment is a recent article about a 29 million dollar study, about putting anti missle systems on commercial airliners at a cost of 1 million dollars each. Supposedly alot of military aircraft have them now. If we didn't have millions of illegals running around at the invitation of our government, we wouldn't need all the other expenditures like this. Just goes to show you what a joke the US government has become to the world and our people, in an attempt to fleece us.
Mexican Trucking Program To Proceed (The Tampa Tribune) 
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