But last week, by a lopsided 415-5 vote, the US House of Representatives said no.
Large trucks are responsible for thousands of motorist fatalities.
US law requires a variety of vehicle safety standards, as well as truck maintenance schedules, roadside inspections, and driver logbooks. We also limit any one driver to 10 hours a day. Violators face stiff fines. Mexican law requires none of these. Simply letting Mexican trucks, with underpaid and overworked drivers, ply US roads consigns American safety standards to the scrapheap.