The U.S. and Mexican governments announced today that they have reached a tentative agreement to re-start the cross-border, long-haul trucking program.

The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement would have allowed truckers from Mexico to move about the U.S. without mileage restrictions. But it was never put into effect, and currently truckers on both sides of the border are limited to traveling in a 20-to-25-mile radius of a trade port. Today’s agreement would allows U.S. truckers to have free range in Mexico and vice versa. 

The agreement, first reported by The Associated Press, would obligate the ...

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