The waste hauling companies are offering an average increase of 75 cents an hour for each of the next five years.

Companies were prohibited from switching trash hauling companies or using non-union drivers.

Tomorrow is the deadline for Westchester businesses to submit claims to part of the $11.5 million settlement that several trash hauling companies signed last year.

During this time he worked with freight hauling companies to improve their profitability, instituting driver performance measures.

He pleaded guilty, was sentenced 87 months of imprisonment, and had to forfeit his ownership interests in 25 trash hauling companies.

The private hauling companies pick up trash from about 250,000 businesses in the city.

They try to haul foreign companies into American courts and bar the companies' executives from entering the United States.

It may seem odd that the Government is running one of New York City's biggest private garbage hauling companies.

And many small trash hauling companies warn that they are being driven out of business by the Giuliani administration's new regulatory policies.

There are numerous licensed waste hauling companies providing such service in areas where it is needed.