I’ve been blogging the NAFTA trucking dispute since 2008. Under NAFTA, Mexican trucks were supposed to be able to operate in Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona by December 1995. That never happened, and it took a dozen years for a pilot program to be started, only to be aborted in 2009. Another pilot took place 2011-2014.

Nearly twenty years late, the US government may be close to fulfilling its NAFTA obligations. In January 2015, the US DOT announced “that Mexican motor carriers will soon be able to apply for authority to conduct long-haul, cross-border trucking services in the United States.” I’m not immediately finding confirmation that this has actually started, so I won’t call this case closed quite yet. We’ll see if it hits the 20-year mark this December.