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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.

For those few members of the media not covering the Clinton impeachment proceedings, truck safety is the issue du jour, courtesy of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.).

The company doesn’t exist in its original form any more, having been swallowed up by a larger operation long ago. But many of the former employees of Service Trucking Co. still think of themselves as part of a family, if you get right down to it. And like many families, they like to hold a reunion now and then.

Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways is using a new tactic in its attacks on trucking.

The Fedex Pilots Association will soon elect new officers, and that could radically alter the union's direction just as contract talks with Federal Express Corp. officials are closer to conclusion.

Diesel prices have dropped below $1 a gallon for the first time since at least 1994, when the Energy Information Administration began compiling diesel price information.

CRASH last week gave reporters its third annual list of truck-involved fatalities by state. Texas had the worst record in 1997, with 454 deaths according to CRASH.

Daymark Logistics set up a program it says will give medium-sized companies the benefits of specialized “demand” chains that have been available only to large firms.

The German postal service, Deutsche Post AG, has launched a $1.1 billion tender offer for Danzas, the Swiss-based international freight forwarder and logistics company.