At 11:03 PM 7/28/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>According the Houston Chronicle, the issue was that Bush wanted to allow
>Mexican trucks to go on US roads uninspected for 18 months. If I understand
>correctly, the problem isn't that there is a higher standard that they must
>adhere to,
Hmm.... that differs with the Washington Post's take on it, which
carachterized it as requiring higher standards for Mexican trucks.
Additionally, the Washington Post did not seem to indicate that the
Democrats' bill would ever permit Mexican trucks into the country.
its that they have been found to have a higher frequency of
>failure than Canadian or US trucks when inspected. I can understand
>grandfathering in another country's inspections, but it doesn't seem too
>unreasonable for a country to cross check inspections to see if they are
>comparable.
Mexican trucks do have a 40% failure rate. American trucks, however, have
a 25% failure rate.
At any rate, however, this seems very much akin to racial profiling.
Democrats have always held that the fact that African Americans are more
likely to commit crimes does not permit extraordinary measures to prevent
crimes by African Americans that even minorly impose costs on non-criminal
African Americans.
>Do you think it is wrong to hold Mexican trucks to the same standards as US
>trucks?
They should be held to the same standard in all respects. Any Mexican
truck that can pass an American inspection should be allowed to operate in
America immediately.
JDG
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