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Residents of Cedar Key gathered at city hall to honor the man who was more than just a delivery driver to them; Kenneth Wayne Johnson is family.

“Dependable, smiling, rock-solid, good heart, big heart,” is how Sue Colson, a 30-year resident of Cedar Key and city commissioner describes Johnson.

Tuesday, April 27, was his last day as a UPS driver, and people in the town wanted to make it clear Johnson was a special part of their tight-knit community.

“He is family now. He has established himself if you work hard and take care of the people of Cedar Key, they will take care of you,” explained Colson.

The CEO of TFI International (NYSE:TFII) hinted on Wednesday that the Canadian trucking and logistics company may be pursuing closer ties with UPS (NYSE:UPS) beyond the $800 million acquisition of its less-than-truckload division, UPS Freight.

“Don’t forget this discussion that we’re having with our friends in Atlanta,” Alain Bedard told financial analysts. “I think it may be way more than a transaction that we should be closing on soon.”

Bedard made the remarks after TFI posted its first-quarter financial results on Tuesday. Without naming UPS directly, he appeared to suggest that one area of potential collaboration could be with TFI’s Canada-based package and courier business, which includes parcel carrier Canpar.

A labor dispute has erupted at a UPS facility in Queens after 10 part-time employees were unceremoniously canned while trying to get to second jobs and/or due to responsibilities at home, something, the corporation said, created some kinks in the system.

Vinny Perrone, president of Teamsters Local 804, told amNewYork Metro that arbitration is in works especially if the 10 workers – two of whom are pregnant – are not reinstated with backpay to make up for the hours lost since April 13.

According to UPS, terminations were made when employees left the facility at 136-40 Springfield Blvd. without first running it by managers despite their shifts ending.

Jim Cramer has been focused on earnings season and he’s taking a close look at UPS.

“What defines a winner in this earnings season? Let’s take United Parcel (UPS) , with a stock that vaulted 19 points on the strength of what looked like an amazing quarter, but that’s not what drove the stock higher at all. Yes, the gross margins were amazing and the pricing per package was unbelievably good, but what you needed to know about UPS is that the CEO, Carol Tome, has repeatedly been dismissed as someone who couldn’t tame the beast, the unwieldy package delivery company. That’s even despite that she had been on the board since 2003 and had seen what had gone wrong, even as she was the dominant CFO of her time, when she ran the finances of Home Depot (HD),” wrote Jim Cramer in his Real Money column Tuesday night.

UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) said Tuesday that it plans to expand its weekend ground residential delivery operations, a strategy designed to build greater traffic density across its daily delivery network and to close the weekend delivery gap with archrival FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX).

UPS CEO Carol Tomé told analysts following the release of the company’s first-quarter results that by October it will reach 90% of the U.S. population with its Saturday ground deliveries to residences. Currently, that number stands at a little higher than 75%.

In addition, UPS will expand its Sunday delivery network through its existing alliance with the U.S. Postal Service, Tomé said, without providing details. UPS’ ground residential network is virtually invisible on Sundays, although the Postal Service delivers some Sunday volume for UPS through the SurePost alliance between the two entities.