The Connection Archive Mexican Trucks Fears Are Overblown Safety issues are being used to protect the economic interests of U.S. transportation companies T he North American Free Trade Agreement made provisions for Canadian, U.S. and Mexican commercial trucks to provide access to each other's highways to deliver goods produced in their respective countries. Mexico retaliated by denying U.S. trucks access into Mexico. The two countries undertook a prolonged but fruitless round of negotiations.
Mexican trucks are unsafe and thus pose a danger on U.S. roadways.
The results were published in 1997. Indeed, it appears that is exactly what happened. They are not long-haul rigs traveling hundreds or thousands of miles on U.S. highways. It was these trucks DOT chose to study. Onerous safety violations uncovered included failure to display a DOT number on the side of the trucks.