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Trucking Dispute Rumbles Toward a Dead End
Monday, 23 August 2010 10:37
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For months, President Barack Obama’s lieutenants have promised an end to the festering 15-year stalemate between the United States and Mexico over cross-border trucking marred by a U.S. ban on long-haul Mexican trucks.

But behind the talk, insiders see little prospect of progress in ending the dispute that has claimed an estimated 25,600 jobs in the U.S., cost an estimated $2.6 billion in lost exports and jacked up import costs to American consumers by an estimated $2.2 billion.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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