U.S.-Mexican trucking experiment in slow lane

For 25 years, the system has worked that way, seeming to satisfy truckers and safety officials on both sides of the border.

But in 2001, seven years after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, the Department of Transportation and a NAFTA tribunal persuaded Congress to approve a pilot program that would allow specially registered U.S. and Mexican trucks to travel deep into each other’s countries. Twenty-nine trucking firms – 21 Mexican and eight U.S., including two from Texas – now take part in the program.

It was a gesture toward fulfilling NAFTA’s open-border requirement.”*

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