"If he's a union driver, he doesn't want to cross the line," Mr. Berry said.

"I bust my tail, doing the exact same thing the union drivers do," said the 29-year-old trucker with a soft voice and a thick beard.

She said the company nearly went broke using union drivers in the early 1970's, with payroll costs that ran about 85 percent of revenues.

Many of the union drivers expressed bitter disappointment that longtime workers were being replaced.

The record of industry practice shows that all other drivers do at least as well as union drivers.

A union driver, Robert Boyle, 27, of the Bronx, was charged in the attack.

He contacted people on Wall Street when we wanted to get some of the big financial houses to start using union drivers.

The company said more than 1,000 newly trained drivers and 400 union drivers who crossed picket lines were at work today.

I suppose you're aching to join the militia for a chance to shoot down union drivers the next strike.

Well, no: he is now earning $70,000 a year, with full benefits, as a union driver for an express delivery firm.