Sentence examples for cross-border trucking from inspiring English sources
"The cross-border trucking program boosts trade opportunities for the U.S. and creates jobs here in Texas.
This opening was supposed to be the first step towards scrapping all regulations holding up cross-border trucking.
Several opponents of cross-border trucking criticized the White House for announcing the decision on the afternoon before a major holiday.
"President Bush knows that Congress and safety experts will be monitoring this issue closely," said Representative Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who was one of the leading critics of cross-border trucking.
It included apples from Washington — to help sway the views of Senator Patty Murray — and Christmas trees from Oregon, the homeland of Senator Ron Wyden, another critic of the cross-border trucking deal.
Last month, in Congress, labour's clout deflected the expansion of NAFTA for the foreseeable future; day by day, and month by month, it also gums up ordinary trade across the border.Under NAFTA, controls on cross-border trucking were meant to be scrapped by December 1995.
The analysis represents a natural experiment on the variability of cross-border truck movements in the aftermath of 9/11.
A recent study among cross-border truck drivers in Hong Kong also found voluntary HIV counseling and testing plus the information dissemination approach to be more effective in promoting safe sex behaviors than the information dissemination approach alone [ 42].
With greater cross-border trade, "The more trucks you have to handle, the higher the risk," said Dieter Tetzner, an engineer at Deutsche Montan Technologie, a German consulting firm that has evaluated security at most of Europe's big tunnels.
The White House explained that Mexican and American carriers would be allowed to engage in cross-border operations, provided the Mexican trucks met United States safety standards.
The results indicate that in general, 9/11 have had a negative effect on the cross-border movement of Canadian and US trucks, but the impacts were more pronounced in the case of the US trucks.
