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Mary Peters must want as much daylight as possible between her and her illegal, unsafe and unpopular cross-border trucking program.

Today the Detroit News ran a rebuttal of Teamster General President Jim Hoffa’s column about why Mary Peters should be fired.  

Mary Peters didn’t write the rebuttal though. It ran under the byline of her underling, John Hill, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator.

Hill repeats the usual lies that the program is safe and legal. He doesn’t mention Trinity Industries de Mexico, which withdrew mysteriously from the program after its abysmal safety record was revealed. You remember: in the year before Trinity was allowed in the program, it had 75 out-of-service orders, 476 safety violations that should have triggered out-of-service orders and an average of 112 safety violations per truck.

Maybe that’s why Mary Peters doesn’t want to attach her name to anything that has to do with opening the border to unsafe Mexican trucks.