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Old 10-19-2011, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Mark this day folks. We missed the others because we weren't paying attention. But now we know better. Watch the downfall happen before our very eyes.

1st Mexican truck to cross Texas border for U.S. interior Friday (http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/1st-mexican-truck-to-cross-texas-border-for-1923947.html?cxtype=rss_news - broken link)
Washington on Friday approved the first Mexican trucking company, Transportes Olympic, nearly two decades after that provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement set off lawsuits and a costly trade dispute.
Transportes Olympic employees were busy Wednesday finishing the preparations for its historic maiden trip.
The long-haul truck will cross the border Friday at Laredo and head about 450 miles north to Garland to deliver industrial equipment, said Guillermo Perez, transport manager at the firm in the Monterrey suburb of Apodaca.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Pa
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Actually I am a bit more concerned about the motorists that share the roads. These Trucks from mexico are not required to pass the same safety checks that ours do.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:28 PM
 
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Any liberal that claims Obama cares about the unemployment or safety of Americans is just a fool. An out-and-out fool. Obama doesn't give a damn about the American people.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Pa
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Any liberal that claims Obama cares about the unemployment or safety of Americans is just a fool. An out-and-out fool. Obama doesn't give a damn about the American people.
Agreed. Unemployment helps his case. He is the great promiser of free give aways and class warfare.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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Actually I am a bit more concerned about the motorists that share the roads. These Trucks from mexico are not required to pass the same safety checks that ours do.
Are they at least required to prove that the truck isn't full of Mexicans?
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Limbo
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Mark this day folks. We missed the others because we weren't paying attention. But now we know better. Watch the downfall happen before our very eyes.

1st Mexican truck to cross Texas border for U.S. interior Friday (http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/1st-mexican-truck-to-cross-texas-border-for-1923947.html?cxtype=rss_news - broken link)
Washington on Friday approved the first Mexican trucking company, Transportes Olympic, nearly two decades after that provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement set off lawsuits and a costly trade dispute.
Transportes Olympic employees were busy Wednesday finishing the preparations for its historic maiden trip.
The long-haul truck will cross the border Friday at Laredo and head about 450 miles north to Garland to deliver industrial equipment, said Guillermo Perez, transport manager at the firm in the Monterrey suburb of Apodaca.
Cool? I could personally care less...
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Pa
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Interesting. How do you know this?
Obama’s EPA Pays to Upgrade Mexican Trucks So They Can Enter US | The Gateway Pundit
Our tax dollars at work.

Hoffa: Mexican Truck Pilot Program Will Be a Repeat Fiasco -- OTAY MESA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --


Mexican Trucks Entering US Cited for 1 Million Violations | Fox News Latino
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Sarasota FL
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I'm sure the Teamsters are just loving this situation. How many of them will be applying for unemployment.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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I had been following that as well. It's sad that people don't read more and are more informed of what is happening right beneath their noses.

Journalism is all but dead. At least we have the internet for if we didn't and only had the MSM we'd surely be "dumb as nails".
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:52 PM
 
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Time to go back to driving on state highways instead of interstates and try to avoid these trucker who are not familiar with our driving laws.

Wonder if any will be doing a reverse hauling of Fast & Furious weapons, operation grenade walker, and drugs for the Sinaloa drug cartels into the US?
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