Homeland security--trucks and borders

By: Drivers.com staff

Date: 2002-02-03

The U.S. Office of Homeland Security has a tough job on its hands. It needs to tighten up security on its borders without making life unbearable for cross border truckers and strangling both the U.S. and Canadian economies in the process.

There may be some light at the end of the tunnel, according to a February 1 New York Times article. The Canadian government is aggressively pushing a plan that would eventually allow more than 7,000 trucks each day to pass the border uninspected. While Tom Ridge, director of homeland security, has not spoken publicly on the proposal it does have the support of the Office of Homeland Security. The goal is to eliminate time-consuming scrutiny of low-risk traffic so that border officials can concentrate on cargo that is more likely to pose a terrorist threat, according to a senior official in the homeland security office.

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