centre of the current dispute have full-time jobs, but most are still looking for employment.

One source in the trucking industry identified four men who had full-time employment and seven others with part-time work. Labour Minister the Hon. John Irving Pearman said he had been told seven were working full-time.

Several of the 15 men were on Front Street yesterday watching picketing on the docks. They said they couldn't account for everybody, but only knew of two who had full-time work.

One of those two men had applied again for a job at Bermuda Forwarders, the truckers said, and was taken back with a full-time job. Others were doing an assortment of odd jobs, they said, and it was wrong to think they were fully employed and did not need their old jobs.

Do they want to go back to Bermuda Forwarders? "Why cause a scene like this if you don't want to go back?'' asked one of the former drivers, who said he had been doing odd jobs like cutting grass. "Nobody around here is stupid.''