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Most Mexican trucking companies are not willing to make the long-term investments to participate in the latest cross-border pilot program with the United States, in part because of uncertainties over the program’s future, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has sent a letter to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration demanding that the agency “address serious concerns about the safety of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads.”

The United States and Mexico Wednesday signed a cross-border trucking agreement under which U.S. roadways will be open to Mexican trucks and Mexico will suspend about $2 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods.

Public comments on a proposal to soon allow Mexican trucks on U.S. highways were largely divided among those who urgently want retaliatory Mexican tariffs ended and those who fear it would leave U.S. roads less safe and steal jobs from Americans.

A plan to allow Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways would begin as a pilot program that would not exceed three years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Friday.

Once again, we look at possibly placing the responsibility for safety on trucking companies and/or trailer manufacturers in order to allow for the unsafe, reckless, inattentive driving of motorists.