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Dispute creates trucking boom

By PORTIA PRIEGERT
Canadian Press

Although the national railway strike threatens
disaster for many industries, it has created a boom for

* trucking firms that can haul goods normally shipped by

train,

Trucking firms say they've pecs Naomi shone
calls from
market during the first two days of the prin by 48,! 000
railway workers.

“There's been a dramatic increase in demand,” said
Michael Gauthier, marketing vice-president of Kingsway
Transports Ltd., one of Canada's largest trucking firms.
“There's no way we can theet the’demand.”

Businesses have been offering outlandish amounts of
money, said Gauthier, whose company has 1,200 trucks
across Canada. One desperate businessman offered to
pay Kingsway double the regular rate.

CN Rail and CP Rail were shut down at midnight
Sunday when members of the Associated Rail Unions
walked off the job in a dispute over job security and
hiring of outside firms for railway work. Both sides were
continuing negotiations Tuesday with government
mediators.

A shortage of 2,000 to 3,000 truck drivers in Ontario,
which accounts for about 40 per cent of the country's

RAILWAY STRIKE

trucking business, means trucking companies will have to
turn away business, said Ray Cope, president of the
Ontario Trucking Association, a lobby group repre-
senting 600 trucking firms.

The strike will give truckers about 20 per cent more
business than usual as they pick up a share of the
$20-million-a-day railway business, he said.

It’s costly to move bulky produets like grain, coal,
potash and mining products in trucks, but they can move
consumer goods and steel, timber and petrochemical
products, Cope said. Most food is trucked to market.

Canada's 6,000 trucking firms. normally carry about
$25 million worth of goods a day and the rail strike is
putting.a strain on them, said Louis-Paul Tardif, general
manager of the Canadian Trucking Association, a
federation of seven provincial trucking associations.

“I don't think anybody is very happy to see a strike
like this,” he said, adding he believes demand is being
met.

“There's a lot of pressure on the companies.”

Some truckers may actually lose business because
ships will use American ports during the strike, leading
to a windfall for American trucking firms, Tardif said.

HURTS SOME

Some trucking companies say they haven't noticed

much increase in business because of the strike and

at

several small- to”
that depend on rail peracetic for business ae been
hurt,

Business has been halved during the strike, said
Benoit Collin, a dispatcher for Baillargeon Express Ine.,
whieh hauls cargo that arrives in Montreal via.CN Rail.

‘Séime trucking company officials say the strike is a
headache,

« “We really don't want the rail strike, to be truthful,”
said Vern McCormack, an Edmonton branch manager
with Tri-Line Freight Systems. “It doesn't do us any

The company, with about 275 trucks, was already
working at 90 per cent capacity and new demands make it
difficult to serve regular customers, he said.

But Bruce Cirankewitsch, who owns an Edmonton
company with four trucks, said he may hire more trucks
and drivers if the strike continues.

“I hope it will benefit our company,” he said.

Lumber companies in British Columbia have been
trying to hire trucks.

“In about two days there won't be a truck available,”
said Dave Buzza, of Cedar Lane Lumber Ltd.

Manitoba truckers say there's more business than
they can handle and some goods can't wait until the strike
ends.

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OTTAWA (CP) — Despite bargaining until near dawn,
negotiators reported almost no progress today in their
attempts to end the first national rail strike in 14 years.

The two sides talked with the help of federal mediators
Bill Kelly and Mac Carson until 4 a.m. and resumed talks
today with back-to-work legislation hanging over their heads
if they fail.

“There has been some slight progress but not the kind
of progress anyone would like,” Carson told reporters at the
hotel in downtown Hull, Que., where the talks are taking
place.

“It’s sort of a wait-and-see situation.”

Asked whether he expects to know by the end of the
day whether a mediated settlement is possible, he replied:

“I would think, as an educated guess, yes, it should
become clear by sometime today.”

Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux formally advised
Parliament late Tuesday of his intention to legislate an end
to the strike unless rapid progress occurs at the bargaining
table.

FILES MOTION .

Workers in the Associated Railway Unions have been driver's licence.

without a contract since Dec. 31 and want more protection
against jobs lost due to declining freight traffic.

The strike is costing the railways about $20 million a
day.

About 10,000 non-striking railway workers have been
laid off for lack of work and a further 4,000 have been told by
Via Rail to stay home because Via relies on CN and CP
crews.

MAY SHUT

In other developments Tuesday:

e Canpotex, the Saskatchewan potash marketing
agency, has notified customers it can no longer guarantee
shipments. At least one producer in the province said it may
have to close.

@ The Coal Association of Canada said the strike
threatens Canada's international reputation as a reliable
supplier of coal and petrochemicals.

e@ The Alberta Wheat Pool said Ottawa should get the
railways moving first and then deal with labor issues.

e The National Farmers Union said the strikers’

are and it supports the new attempt at

He filed a notice of motion with the C s clerk
clearing the way for a bill as early as Thursday evening if
needed.

“I have indicated that I would act expeditiously if the
negotiations fail,” he said. “I simply want to be ready to act.”

Under Commons rules, the government must give 48
hours’ notice before it introduces a bill. The legislation would
be called the Maintenance of Railway Operations Act.

The government has not said how long it will give
negotiators to reach a settlement.

Kelly, who helped settle this summer's postal strike,
said he did not believe a settlement would be reached
Tuesday night.

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mediation.

@ The Dow Chemical Plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.,
could lose $300,000 a day and will have to shut if the strike is
prolonged.

e Ipsco of Regina will be forced to cut back steel
production and lay off employees if rail service is disrupted
for just a few days, said company president Roger Phillips

© People are paying more than $25 a day to park in
downtown Toronto after commuter rail service was
cancelled.

e@ CGTX Inc. in Red Deer, Alta., a company that repairs
railway tank cars, has issued layoff notices to 43 workers
and may have to close in two weeks.

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DENVER (AP) — Former
U.S. senator Gary Hart fan-
ned fires of speculation that
he will re-enter the presi
dential race, telling reporters
he will soon announce his
plans.

“I don't have any kind of
comment to make this even
ing,” Hart told reporters
Tuesday night as he returned
home from vacation in Ire-
land. “I want to get together
with my family and get
caught up on the news of the
last few days and find out
what has or has not gone on.

“Then I will cover all the

points that need to be
covered in a comprehensive
way. I'll have something to
say pretty soon.”

Hart was met at the air
port by his wife, Lee. They
drove to their mountain
home in Troublesome Gulch
near Kittredge, 50 kilo
metres southwest of Denver.

The former Colorado sen.
ator quit his campaign for the
Democratic nomination on
May 8 after the Miami Herald
reported he spent part of a
weekend with actress-model
Donna Rice.

Speculation that Hart

would rejoin the race was
kindled last week after his
former campaign manager,
Bill Dixon, said it is likely
Hart will do so.

Another former adviser to
Hart, Bill Shore, told the Des
Moines (Iowa) Register that
Hart told him by telephone
Tast week that he was un
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Hart had been considered
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Cliff Michael, the provin-
cail minister of transpor-
tation and highways, said
Tuesday he could foresee use
of interactive video at driver
test centres.

At a demonstration of a
video unit designed to gauge
the skills of truck drivers,
Michael said similar united
could be developed to test
applicants for driver's lic-
ences.

Applicants would respond
to questions by pressing a
pressure-sensitive screen to
indicate their selection from
a display of possible answers.

The unit at the headquar-
ters of the B.C Trucking
Association was developed
by International Test Corp.
Inc., of Victoria.

The testing checks driver
aptitude and job knowledge.

Association president
George Lloyd said the new
equipment, which uses tests
stored on video discs, can be
used to improve safety
awareness or see how much a
driver has retained from
training sessions.

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Miss PNE

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Laura Phelps, a blonde, blué-
eyes beauty from Kelowna,
was crowned Tuesday night
as Miss PNE for 1987.

Phelps, 17, won the contest
over runner-up Miss Mis.
sion, Kathryn Driscoll, 17,
who has auburn hair and
green eyes.

The two were the top con
tenders in a field of 43 con-
testants from around the
province that included
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