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Twelve years ago the United States put the trucking provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, on hold.

In February of this year Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced the U.S. will grant a maximum of 1,000 Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways for up to three years under a new pilot program. At the moment, Mexican trucking companies are allowed to transport goods within a 25-mile buffer zone from its borders into the United States. American trucks are currently not allowed into Mexico.

In the past three months there has been a great debate in Washington about what this trucking provision should allow and how much of an impact it would have on America's truck drivers.

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