Opening Mexico’s border under the NAFTA agreement could cost professional truck drivers in the U. S. as many as two million jobs. With an estimated four million active U. S. truck drivers, that would equal cutting half of the work force. With an industry that already uses new student and CDL drivers for cheap labor to haul the cheap freight, should the Mexican border be opened completely would be devastating to the United States truckers’ vocation.
Listen to Truth About Trucking “LIVE” talk radio show which recently discussed this important issue:
I wish I could have caught this live! I would have love to comment. Our government is planning to allow Mexician truck to have free rule of our highways. They will not be required to stop at the border and be inspected. They can be terrorist with a load of explosives coming in to our country. Carrying a load of drugs and yet we will not be inspecting these trucks coming from Mexico. For every Mexician driver that comes in to this country we will also lose 2 american drivers or more jobs!
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/truthabouttrucking/2011/02/04/nafta-mexico–facts-or-fear
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