Less-than-truckload company ABF Freight System and the Teamsters National Freight Industry Committee have exchanged contract proposals in anticipation of negotiations that will begin Jan. 7. The parties are meeting to address the current union contract — covering 7,500 ABF employees — that expires March 31. According to an ABF press release, the company’s goal in these negotiations is to lower costs, stemming the $230 million the company has lost since 2009, while bec...