Coming NAFTA Crash: The Deadly Impact of a Secret NAFTA Tribunal's Decision to Open U.S. Highways to Unsafe Mexican Trucks
Contributing Organization(s): Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Author(s)/Creator(s): Patrick Woodall; Lori Wallach; Jessica Roach; Darshana Patel
Publishing Date: 2001-02-01
Issue Areas: Consumer Protection; Employment and Labor; Energy and Environment
Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright 2001 by Public Citizen. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or by information exchange and retrieval systems, without written permission from the authors.
Report documents that Mexico's truck safety regulations are virtually non-existent, that Mexican trucks have far more safety deficiencies than U.S. trucks, that a disproportionate number of Mexican trucks crossing the border have been taken out of service for serious safety violations, and that the U.S. lacks enough inspectors to check incoming trucks. Further, Texas border communities within the commercial border zone in which Mexican trucks are permitted have seen a dramatic increase in highway fatalities and serious injuries from crashes involving trucks with Mexican registrations, the report found.
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