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September 6, 2007 Barack Obama, llinois Senator and Presidential candidate, issued the following statement on the Bush administration’s plan to allow Mexican truck drivers and trucks free access to American roads, as required in the North American Free Trade Agreement. "I am opposed to the Bush administration decision to allow cross-border trucking into the interior of the United States. There simply remain too many safety and environmental concerns. Before truck drivers from this or any other country are allowed to crisscross our highways, they should meet minimum standards for vehicle safety, rules on how long drivers can operate a vehicle as well as adequate oversight over those operations, and driver training. We need more time to study whether Mexican trucking firms and drivers can meet those standards across the entirety of their fleets."
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