Yeesh--this is most racist, condescending thread I've ever seen here. "Dem Mexicans is all stupid, untrained, on drugs and don't know how to drive, much less maintain a truck!"

Make mexican trucks pass US inspection standards. No problem then, right?

Good luck on that btw. lemme know how it works out for ya.

Having working ports in this country is a national security concern.

Nah, haven't you heard? national security concerns are for sale to the highest bidder now.

And worrying about the safety inspections on mexican trucks using US roads is racist. You don't want to be racist, right?

The safety issue is just an excuse; bottom line for them is they're losing their protectionist racket here.

Except that, by your own admission, that's not the case:

"I seem to recall the article under dispute saying 77 percent of Mexico's trucks DID pass US inspection, while 79 percent of the US's did."

You yourself state that mexican trucks are manifestly unsafe - more so than US trucks on the road.

Now, in a perfect world, we'd want every unsafe truck off the road until they're up to code. But if we can't even ensure that US trucking companies are obeying the law (and they're the guys we can easily track) how the hell are we supposed to keep track of the guys south of the border?

The best, easiest answer to the situation is to keep the more demonstrably unsafe trucks off the roads. And as you've already stated, that's the mexican trucks.