Re: Re: Airplanes falling out of the sky

[Jim Devine]

At 04:35 PM 2/1/00 -0600, you wrote:
>  It would appear, by the way, the deregulation of the trucking 
>industry in Canada has been much more detrimental in both the 
>bankruptcy of numberous trucking companies and a major decline 
>in road safety, particularly with low-wage competition with Mexican 
>truckers.  At least the reputation, as well, is that the Mexican 
>trucks don't meet Canadian safety regulations but that, given the 
>cutback in inspectors, etc., they are not being caught.  Is that the 
>case in the US?

This is confusing. As far as I know, Mexican truckers haven't gotten on US
roads in a significant way yet. So they couldn't get to Canada unless they
flew!

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine