Crossing Borders
JULY 2009 TRUCKERS NEWS 21 corporation-owned assembly facil-ities south of the border, known as and part of a long-standing Mexican government-sponsored program of incentives for assembly plants in the border areas. Car and truck parts and other goods and raw materials cross southbound; new cars, new trucks and other dura-ble goods come back north, feeding into the economic engine of the en-tire continent. Roger Creery, executive director of the Laredo Development Foun-dation, says the cross-border truck-ing issue's practical component is in making international trade moved by truck a little more seamless, a definite area of interest for trucking, manufacturing and other businesses on both sides of the border. But, Creery adds, many people have lost sight of that practicality. Has this become more of an emo-tional issue than it is an economic issue? he asks. Mines Road in Laredo, Texas the trucking capital of the world, according to many observers is the address of strategically positioned yards of numerous trucking firms large and small.