DOT Still Sees Obstacles to Opening Mexico Border

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little more than five weeks after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the government to allow Mexican trucks to deliver in the United States, industry and government officials told Transport Topics some significant barriers remained to opening the border anytime soon.

The court ruled on June 7 that the Department of Transportation did not have to complete an environmental impact review before allowing Mexican trucks into the United States.

Even though the ruling would allow the U.S. government to open the border, some of the statutory restrictions Congress imposed in 2002 prevent the government from simply allowing Mexican trucks to deliver freely in the United States.

“The fact is that plans are not quite settled on what we’re doing,” said DOT spokesman Brian Turmail. “At one point we were close to opening the border two years ago.”

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