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Approximately 1,400 truck drivers and dock workers at Milwaukee-based ANR Advance Transportation Co. walked off the job last week in a contract dispute with the Teamsters union.

In September, after three years of service to the Bose Corp. as its foremost truckload carrier, Werner Enterprises finally hooked into the audio manufacturer’s logistics management system. What took so long?

Seven years after Ron Carey trumpeted the arrival of the “New Teamsters,” the unspoken question about the 1998 Teamsters presidential race is “Will Jim Hoffa bring back the old Teamsters?”

The Justice Department put the Teamsters union on its ear in June 1987 when it announced that government lawyers would work with the Labor Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take control of the union. For 30 years, Justice said, the Teamsters had been influenced by organized crime, and it was time for a change.

Trucking companies will have to train drivers who occasionally use forklifts how to safely operate the equipment, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Some small businesses feel the Department of Defense decision to use a new computerized system for calculating mileage for transporters will leave them out in the cold.

John M. Kane was eight years old when his father bought a trucking company that hauled freight from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

The ballots have been counted, and the message is unmistakable: Once again there’s a Hoffa running the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. What’s much less clear is what the results of this election will mean to the union and to organized labor.

With or without the North American Free Trade Agreement, it will be business as usual at CFI. If the transportation provisions of Nafta were completely implemented, it would certainly change some of the challenges we face in crossborder transportation. But it wouldn’t change our overall strategy to offer the best North American truckload service possible.