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Sen. Dorgan Says DOT Ignores Law Intended to Block Mexican Truck Plan

Transport Topics, January, 2008 by McNally, Sean

Opponents of the Department of Transportation's Mexican trucking program continued to assail DOT's continuing the pilot project, as a senator accused the agency of flouting the law and interest groups took the fight back to court.

The latest barrage began Jan. 3 when Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) warned Transportation secretary Mary Peters that continuing the program after Congress passed legislation aimed at stopping it, "will put the Department of Transportation in direct violation of federal law."

In his letter to Peters, Dorgan said DOT was "both arrogant and wrong" to keep running the pilot program despite the recently signed law preventing the agency from spending money to establish the program during the 2008 fiscal year.

The prohibition, which Dorgan added...

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