More Mexican Trucks on U.S. highways

Beginning Friday, Mexican trucks will be making their way onto U.S. highways.

It’s all part of a 2009 agreement between the President Barack Obama’s administration and Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon, signed earlier this year.

The first truck to make a delivery is owned by a company based in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, Transportes Olympics. It will pass through the Laredo port of entry and travel to Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Meanwhile, the move comes with opposition from American unions and lawmakers, who say the program will cost jobs and make U.S. highways more dangerous.

“It’s a really controlled program. There’s no way to avoid the law, we are really prepared for this,” said the manager of Transportes Olympics in a Washington Post article.

Officials say the Mexican truck making the delivery will undergo strict inspections. It will also be carrying a monitoring device, so U.S. officials can track its location.

The move complies with a provision of the 1994 North America Free Trade Agreement.