Cross-Border Trucking between Mexico, United States Still Faces Many Barriers.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: December 27, 2002 | Copyright information

By Karen Brooks, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 27--LAREDO, Texas--Another milestone, another roadblock.

So goes the touch-and-go story of cross-border trucking under the North American Free Trade Agreement -- a tale of long delays and detours, jump-starts and grinding halts in the effort to allow Mexican 18-wheel rigs into the United States.

It's a story of partisan politics, flaring tempers, eager anticipation and crushing disappointments.

Seven years after the first Mexican truck was supposed to begin hauling its ...

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