Austin Alonzo Kansas City Business Journal January 11, 2013 View the original piece ABF Freight System Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are meeting in Kansas City this week to continue discussions on a labor agreement between the two parties. ABF, a subsidiary of Arkansas Best Corp. (Nasdaq: ABFS), is asking employees to accept concessions in wages and pension coverage to cut labor costs to a level comparable with ABF’s chief unionized rival, Overland...

Timothy Cama Transport Topics December 31, 2012 View the original piece The trucking industry and its allies pushed back against modified hours-of-service rules for drivers, while federal regulators pushed ahead with safety initiatives that ranged from requiring electronic onboard recorders to ensuring that unsafe trucking companies cannot keep operating after being shut down. Just before the year began, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a rule that restricted truck drivers' use of the 34-hour...

December 20, 2012: ABF management reacted with an angry press release at the start of negotiations for a new contract. Negotiations will resume in January.   A City Wire report and an IBT bulletin are available here.