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| DOT inspector general begins audit of Mexican carrier plan
DOT inspector general begins audit of Mexican carrier plan
6/20/07 Quote:
In what the Bush administration hopes will be the final step in its effort to open the Mexican border to truck traffic, the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General announced its plan to conduct a safety audit required by Congress. Regardless of the outcome of that audit, however, critics clearly aren’t giving up and instead are setting the stage for further political and legal challenges to the pilot program.
In a June 19 letter to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the DOT IG’s office said that in response to recently enacted legislation it will examine whether DOT has established sufficient mechanisms to apply federal motor carrier safety laws and regulations to motor carriers domiciled in Mexico that are granted authority to operate beyond the border commercial zones and to ensure compliance with such laws and regulations.
The new law requires an initial audit before the pilot program as well as an interim report six months later and a final report at the end of the demonstration project. The purpose of the initial report is to determine whether FMCSA has (1) complied with requirements Congress established several years ago; (2) established sufficient mechanisms to ensure that only Mexican carriers that can comply with U.S. motor carrier laws and regulations are granted authority; and (3) established sufficient monitoring and enforcement mechanisms to ensure that Mexican motor carriers actually do comply with those laws and regulations.
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