The Trucker News Services
8/14/2009
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19 percent of Americans say the U.S. Congress should let trucks from Mexico cross the border and carry their loads on American highways.
The survey showed that 66 percent of U.S. adults oppose lifting the congressional ban on Mexican trucks operating in the United States and 15 percent are not sure.
Men are more strongly opposed than women.
At least seven-out of-10 voters ages 40 and older are against lifting the ban on Mexican trucks.
Sixty-eight percent of investors agree.
Twenty-eight percent of Democrats say Mexican trucks should be allowed to cross the border and operate in the United States, compared to 11 percent of Republicans and 16 percent of those not affiliated with either party.
Congress killed the Cross Border Demonstration Project last March.
President Barack Obama immediately tasked the Department of Transportation with the responsibility of coming up with a plan to replace the pilot project.
DOT Secretary Ray LaHood subsequently met with Congressional leaders and trucking industry stakeholders and has since sent the new plan to the White House, which has the plan under review.
