Defend our Owner-Operator Independent Drivers

Our Owner-Operator Independent Drivers (ooida) are under. From the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association home page. Please go to the site and see how you can help:

Coming to a Highway Near You The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) plan to open the U.S. border with Mexico to a select group of Mexico-based motor carriers as part of a pilot or demonstration program. Section 350 of the 2002 DOT Appropriations Act requires them to assure trucks and drivers from Mexico will meet U.S. safety standards and not endanger the U.S. population while traveling on our highways. Let them know the DOT has NOT met this requirement and you are against this program. You can: - Post comments on the Federal Register - Encourage friends and family to do the same - Write a letter to your local newspaper editor Take Action NOW! Contact your representative in the U.S House and ask them to join in signing a letter against the program. Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, provide the operator with your home zip code and they will connect you with the office of your elected representative.

We have seen today that the Senate is clearly poised to pass the Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2007. But what will be the cost to our independent truckers? What will be the cost to us? As one who travels our highways often, I have respect for our men and women who travel our highways hauling freight bringing goods to us. They need our help just as we need them. We are safer with them on the road - how many contracts will be put into jeopardy with the passage of this bill? Thank you to the owner-operator independent driver who sent this information my way. You see, it will not only be you and me whose lives will be put in jeopardy but the lives of our own truckers as well.