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. Here, in a nutshell, is the problem of naive globalization. In theory, the world has become one seamless market. Get rid of archaic barriers and commerce will flourish to the benefit of all.