GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Pat, let me change gears here with you real quick on the trucks that are going to start rolling this weekend. Surprise to you at all that it happens over Labor Day weekend in two ways: One, what a perfect weekend to bury this story that the trucks from Mexico are now okay to come on American ground. This is a huge thing.

GRAY: Yeah.

GLENN: Is it a surprise that it's coming because the news media just won't report it because it will be buried and then it will be old news. Second, is it shocking to you that we have people now for the first time able to take these trucks onto our roads, on the busiest, most traveled, road-wise, traveled weekend of the year?
GRAY: Neither of those things shock me anymore, no. It's incredibly unfortunate but it doesn't shock me in the least. And, you know, congress, the House passed a bill to stop this and it was totally ignored by the Senate. So we're rolling ahead with it, but believe me there were people in the House, Ted Poe and other congressmen from Texas were trying desperately to stop this madness. These trucks are so hazardous and we don't know who's driving them. I'm sure you covered the story about the drug smuggler that we talk about all the time in the Ramos and Compean situation who got shot in the buttocks, he's one of the guys who could be one of the drivers. He's got two commercial truckdrivers licenses that he holds from Mexico. One of them allows him to carry hazardous waste! So Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila could be driving one of those Mexican trucks that's rolling into our country this weekend. How does that make you feel?

GLENN: How does it make you feel that Mexican trucks are okay to drive hazardous waste? I mean, I got news for you. I barely, I barely trust our laws with hazardous waste.

GRAY: Well, that's the thing. You know we're not as meticulous as we should be inspecting our own trucks. Now we've got 100 Mexican company trucks to also have to worry about? They haven't been inspected. You know they haven't, none of them are up to U.S. standards. My guess is none of them are. And we're not going to be on the road this week, I'll tell you that. But there's going to be a lot of people who are, who don't understand the danger and the problem. And especially in West Texas and wherever else these trucks are rolling, they're not safe. These guys are driving drunk. We had -- I don't know --

GLENN: So wait. Wait, wait. What happens -- let me interrupt you.

GRAY: Yeah.

GLENN: What happens on Tuesday when you come back and no one was killed by a Mexican truck?

GRAY: What happens?

GLENN: No, I mean, here's my point.

GRAY: Yeah.

GLENN: Maybe this was -- you know, because I say you don't try it out on the busiest weekend on the roads of the year, but maybe that's the point. Maybe that's the point. If there is no problem, they can say, it was the busiest weekend and there was no problems. Nobody was coming across drunk.

GRAY: Yeah, and I'm sure that will be the spin if that happens. And even if something does happen, do you think the mainstream media's going to cover it? Will it get out of the State of Texas or out of the area in which it happens? No.

GLENN: I think it will.

GRAY: Do you? I hope so.

GLENN: Yeah, I do. I think it would.

GRAY: I hope so.

GLENN: I don't think it would be a long story but I think it would be one of those short hits.

GRAY: Maybe the Mexican truck story itself, it will be on Drudge and a couple of other places. You and I would be talking about it and I don't know if it would get much further play on it than that.

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