FMCSA Touts Mexican Cross-Border Safety

Conclusions in US-Mexico Cross-Border Trucking Demonstration Project, commissioned by the US Department of Transportation, are that the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) has “adequate site-specific plans for commercial truck crossings and for conducting the truck checks and inspections…” The independent panel did not look at matters of security, the environment, customs or immigration in the controversial 12-month project.

While the FMCSA had projected that 100 Mexican carriers would participate in the project, just 25 operated some 100 trucks, far fewer than the 500 that had been anticipated. The Cross-Border program allows Mexican carriers to move freight beyond the 3 to 25 commercial zone north of the border between the two countries. It does not permit cabotage. According to the report, most of the demonstration trucks operated only within the border zone.

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