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Just one day after charging a board of inquiry with the task of looking at the impact of the West Coast port lockout, reports said that President Bush may ask a judge to force the Pacific Maritime Association to let its employees come back to work.

I disagree that new technology is somewhat of a Band-Aid used by trucking companies to circumvent poor driving habits or poor physical or mental skills.

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The shutdown of West Coast ports that began early last week holds a number of lessons for the trucking industry — about the economic power of international trade flows, about how intermodal links have tied so many businesses together and about how quickly a dispute between other players can hurt so many truckers.

As President Bush was announcing he was invoking the Taft-Hartley Act to temporarily resolve the West Coast port lockout, the dockworkers union said it was offering to come back to work for 30 days under their old contract, providing a confusing flurry of statements and reactions.

The White House said Monday that President Bush is taking a first step in intervening in the now weeklong port lockout on the West Coast, news services reported.

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The customer service (CS) departments of most transportation companies are focused on making call centers more efficient.

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