A bill to tighten safety reporting and evaluation requirements for the Mexico-US cross-border trucking project has been passed unanimously by the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters supports the measure, which will force Mexican trucks to meet safety and security standards before they’re allowed to travel beyond the narrow border zone.
The bill also compels the Transportation Department to extend it for three years before throwing open the borders to unfettered truck travel deep into the United States.
The pilot program has come under attack since it was announced in February, with Teamsters president Jim Hoffa saying it “has holes in it you could drive a truck through”.
Last month, the FMCSA found itself the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the Teamsters and several other groups who believed the project would enable unsafe Mexican trucks to operate freely in the US.
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