Mexico’s largest trucking association, Canacar, has seized the moment to present its complaints on North American Free Trade Agreement trucking issues to the country’s incoming president, Vicente Fox Quesada.
Camara Nacional del Autotransporte de Cargo historically has had strong ties to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and a former association president went on to become a PRI senator. Most members supported PRI candidates in the July 2 election; four days later, the association was ready to present its trucking agenda to the president-elect from the opposition party.
Fox and his National Action Party, or PAN, pulled off a stunning victory that signaled the end of PRI rule after 71 years. But the interregnum will last five months. Fox won’t be sworn into office until Dec. 1.
Canacar leaders renewed their pleas about international trucking issues to the incoming administration. While the trucking group supports increased crossborder trucking, it would like to see the United States and Mexico follow the same kind of graduated schedule laid out in Nafta, approved in 1994.
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