As the Department of Transportation quietly lifted its ban on Mexican-domiciled trucks for operation in this country, organized labor has ridiculed the move as irresponsible and harmful to highway safety.
On Jan 9, a slow news Friday in the nation’s capital, the DOT issued a press release saying the safety record results from its three-year pilot program allowing a handful of Mexican truck fleets into this country were hardly different from Canadian and U.S.-based fleets.