Despite Mexican corporations putting the hammer on the Mexican government to cooperate with the United States to begin cross-border trucking, it is not likely that’s going to happen soon. Insiders are saying that nothing is predicted to happen until 2007.

According to the San Antonio Express, the topic was a hot discussion at last week’s border symposium in Laredo, TX. The newspaper quotes Washington international lawyer Leslie Alan Glick, an insider on U.S.-Mexico matters, as saying, “One U.S. government official I spoke to believed that Mexico is not interested in finalizing the border opening to U.S. trucks until their (2006) elections are over.”

By that time, San Antonio columnist David Hendricks speculates that U.S. opponents of cross-border trucking probably will come up with new ways to erect yet another roadblock.

As it currently stands, the U.S. Department of Transportation needs to establish rules that would allow its inspectors to visit Mexico to certify long-haul Mexican fleets. The San Antonio Express reported that Mexican government refuses to make an appointment to discuss the matter.