Coming To A Highway Near You - Truck Explodes In Mexico.....

[global1]

check out this link to the story: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/mexican-dynamite-truck-explodes-34-die/20070910090709990001

Yes - folks - something else to worry about.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Nearly all of the casualties

were curious onlookers aka dumbfucks. Shit happens everywhere so I wouldn't attach too much importance to it happening in Mexico.

[northzax]

2. Lemme guess...

It caught on fire and collapsed an onramp to a freeway? No wait, that was a US truck! And you know this is irrelevant because trucks under this plan cannot carry HazMat. But you knew that, right?

[Skittles]

14. WHO GIVES A F***

WHY CAN'T AMERICANS DO THEIR OWN TRUCKING ?????

[northzax]

20. they can.

don't see anything about how Americans can't do trucking here, do you? I only see posts about how bad Mexicans are at it.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. So what about these?

Were you worried before Mexico started using our highways?


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-01-tanker-explosion_N.htm

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/17/eng20060117_236052.html

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_13782.aspx

http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=21B55882-045F-6B4A-00AE73DE819960AA

[RB TexLa]

9. As long as it's caused by a "Red blooded Merican!" it's ok to some people

[Skittles]

11. why do Mexcans need to truck here?

there aren't enough Americans who want to be TRUCKERS now???

[RB TexLa]

18. To deliver their products to customers in the US. Just like US trucks do in Mexico.

Or I guess the US trucks being able to drive all of Mexico and keeping the Mexican trucks out of the US is what you consider fair?

[Skittles]

27. it is about driving down wages

if you can't see that you are a fool

[endarkenment]

4. Do you have any statistics or evidence to show

that the Mexican trucking industry is less safe or less rigorous about safety and safety inspections than the US trucking industry?

[BonnieJW]

5. You're kidding, right?

Do you really think Mexican truck drivers have ANY regulations???

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Well if they don't...

should be pretty easy for you to provide some statistics.

[endarkenment]

7. Oh actually yes I do.

And in fact there is evidence that they are actually more rigorous about truck safety regulations than we are. However that was not the question. So do you have any evidence that the Mexican trucking industry is less safe than ours?

[BonnieJW]

8. good article

http://www.teamster.org/resources/members/TeamsterMagazine/06August/nafta.htm

[lonestarnot]

33. OMG

[Skittles]

10. I DON'T WANT THOSE F***ING TRUCKERS FROM MEXICO

WHY CAN'T AMERICANS DO THEIR OWN TRUCKING ???????????? That is REGARDLESS of the SAFETY ISSUE. I can't BELIEVE the defenders of this f***ing CRAP.

[malaise]

12. Imagine how the Iraqis feel about the American trucks, tanks, bombs

and weapons as a result of the illegal occupation of their country?
Sp.

[Skittles]

13. WTF does that have to do with this discussion?

are you suggesting I am PRO-IRAQ INVASION ???

[malaise]

16. My comment may give you some perspective about how others feel about

American trucks.

[Skittles]

25. well I AM AGAINST THE F***ING WAR

so direct it to a REPUKE who maybe NEEDS such a comparison

[pampango]

17. Feel the same about the truckers from Canada?

Is this a "keep foreigners out of our country" thing or a "keep Mexicans out of our country" thing?

[northzax]

22. personally, I can't understand

why anyone would let those darn negroes take good trucking jobs away from Real Americans, either. Or the brown people from south of the border, neither. sheesh.

[Skittles]

28. do you not understand?

it is about DRIVING DOWN THE WAGES OF AMERICAN TRUCKERS - a great many of whom are BLACK AND BROWN

[northzax]

31. or, it's about raising the wages for Mexican truckers

and opening the Mexican trucking market to the US as well. I guess it just depends on your perspective.

[Rage for Order]

29. Or the "brown" people from India via outsourcing, right?

Nothing wrong with that either? Or does this logic only apply to certain types of American jobs?

[northzax]

30. nope, nothing wrong with that, either

if a company can provide the same level of service, for less, in another country using technology, why not? the world is a big place, you know, and we don't have a monopoly on anything.

[Skittles]

26. I think if Americans can do their own damn trucking

they should - YES

[and-justice-for-all]

15. Does NAU mean anything to anyone??

anybody?? Someone???

http://www.augustreview.com/

[Balbus]

21. Northern Arizona University!

Go Lumberjacks!

[and-justice-for-all]

24. LOL!! nt

:P

[northzax]

23. the fashion collective?

what do they have to do with Mexican trucking?

[porphyrian]

19. Only if we're importing dynamite from Mexico.

The article says that they couldn't determine what caused the accident which led to the fire which led to the explosion. The body count is that high because the accident attracted a bunch of people who were probably trying to help. There's no reason to believe it was the driver instead of, say, the shitty state of some Mexican roads that caused the accident. At any rate, that driver's dead now, so you don't have to worry about him.

[a kennedy]

32. Senate votes to block Mexican trucks test

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to block funding for a Bush administration test program to let Mexican long-haul trucks operate in the United States under 1994's North American Free Trade Agreement.

One day after a fiery truck accident killed dozens in Mexico, the Senate approved an amendment to a transportation spending bill that would cut off funding for the test, which the administration authorized last week to run for one year.

The House of Representatives has passed a similar measure.

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto the broad transportation bill because it would spend more money than President George W. Bush requested. It said the administration opposes any restrictions on the cross-border trucking program.

The administration said "it has the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a safe and secure program."

A tractor-trailer loaded with explosives blew up in a huge fireball on Monday after hitting a pickup truck in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. At least 29 people were killed.

Calling the accident a warning to proceed cautiously, North Dakota Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan led the effort to deny funding for the program. Continued...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-09-12T015115Z_01_WAO000129_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-MEXICO-TRUCKS-SENATE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22&sp=true