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...contract settlement within the Administration's "voluntary" guideline limits of 7% a year in wage and benefit increases. On the 13th floor of a hotel overlooking Arlington National Cemetery, union and management negotiators have been bargaining in earnest for more than a week to shape a new master freight agreement for the Teamsters' 270,000 drivers and loaders. The two sides have until midnight this Saturday, March 31,when the present contract expires, to reach an agreement...
...Chicago myriad federal, state, county and sales taxes add up to about 17? per gal. (the federal tax alone is 4?). But in Houston levies total only 9?, and lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas, to as much as 2.5? per gal. for deliveries by some oil majors to Rocky Mountain regions...
...Vietnamese also have an advantage in supply and transport. Because of shortages of trucks and freight cars, the Chinese are reported to have brought some supplies to the combat area by horse-drawn vehicles. While the Chinese army moves primarily on foot, the Vietnamese forces have plenty of modern transport, much of it seized from...
...lounge upstairs, drivers pass the time shooting pool or watching TV. Afternoons, a handful of drivers usually hang around the call board, smoking and talking. On the board are buttons that connect them directly with the Georgia offices of 29 nationwide freight carriers. "May I have your attention, please," an amplified female voice will vibrate through the room. "Anybody with a reefer interested in going to New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, please come to the desk." What a driver hauls depends partly on his truck. "Reefer" is jargon for a semi that carries refrigerated items, flatbeds tend...
...district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union stridently opposes deregulation too; the 300,000 members covered by its master freight agreement have won fat wage and benefit increases that truck lines have been able to pass on to customers by posting rate hikes rubber-stamped...