The Department of Transportation Thursday released “an initial concept document” for a new crossborder trucking agreement with Mexico, without setting deadlines.

The document, available here, is the “starting point” for new negotiations with Mexico over crossborder trucking, the department said in a statement.

Any program designed to replace the Bush-era cross-border trucking pilot project killed by Congress and the White House in 2009 will face stiff opposition.

From the Journal of Commerce