Bureaucrats to buck Congress on Mexican trucks?

Filed under: General — shadow @ 11:01 am

By Jerome Corsi

On May 15, when the Safe American Roads Act of 2007 (H.R. 1773) passed the House by an overwhelming 411 3 margin, many opponents to the Department of Transportation’s Mexican truck demonstration project presumed the battle was won.

Yet, nothing could be further from the truth.
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All this week, a series of Department of Transportation high-level meeting have been held over a pending decision to allow the Mexican trucks to roll their long-haul rigs anywhere in the United States on July 15.

A decision to proceed with the Mexican truck demonstration project amounts to Transportation declaring that the agency has already complied with the requirements of the Iraq supplemental funding bill and ignoring an overwhelming vote taken by the House to pass a law that would block the test.

Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, has asked the Department of Transportation to announce publicly whether the demonstration project will begin on July 15, or to state officially that the project allowing Mexican trucks into the U.S. has been postponed.