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Thread #100815 Message #2026429
Posted By: GUEST,Mother Trucker
15-Apr-07 - 11:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: War on Terror? Border open to truckers
Subject: BS: War on Terror? Border open to truckers
NATIONAL TRUCKER'S "TRUCK OUT" BOYCOTT: To Protest President Bush and our elected official's plans, both state and federal, to allow tens of thousands of Mexican truckers onto America's highways in the next 45 days. Mexican truckers will be allowed to cross our border without any restrictions regulating compliance to our United States Trucking rules, laws, and regulations. No educational requirements to speak fluent english, no weight or load restrictions, as their loads will not be under the same security scrutiny that our trucker's loads have to comply to, which opens the door to more drugs, terrorist, weapons, and human smuggling, some with no liability or collision insurance in place, some truckers with no driver-licenses and many with criminal and DUI driving records, no background checks, bald-tires and their un-inspected, unsafe trucks and trailers that are not regulated to adhere to our strict safety regulations. This is a complete breakdown of the current United States federal and state trucking laws that govern our teamster truckers, independant trucking organizations, and mom-and-pop trucking families. Not only will American truckers lose their jobs, but American truckers and motorists become collateral damage in accidents guaranteed to occur -- killing our citizens, destroying property, closing highways and tying up traffic in the process....