Bullets Fired at Truck on Freeway : Crime: The driver suffers cuts from shattered windshield glass. Police are unsure if the shooting was related to a strike at the firm.

Several bullets hit a truck driven by a Modesto man, whose company is embroiled in a labor dispute, as he traveled on the Golden State Freeway near Sylmar early Friday, Los Angeles police said.

William Rollins, 57, was heading north about 12:30 a.m. when several bullets pierced the windshield and passenger side of his truck, said Detective Charles Apodaca of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Labor Relations Division.

Although Rollins suffered numerous facial cuts from the shattered glass, he managed to drive about 10 miles north to a California Highway Patrol truck-weighing station near Magic Mountain, CHP Sgt. Edward Shick said.

Rollins, an employee of Di Salvo Trucking Co. in Commerce, was treated and released at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Police had not determined how many assailants were involved or the type of weapon that was used.

Although the Police Department’s Labor Relations Division was handling the investigation, detectives said they were unsure if the shooting was a result of the labor dispute.

“This could be a random freeway shooting,” Apodaca said.

Employees of Di Salvo Trucking Co., who are members of Teamsters Union Local 396, have been on strike since December over wages, said Charles Lawlor, owner of the 50-year-old San Francisco-based company.

Of the 200 union employees in the company’s Commerce office, only 75 are still working, Lawlor said.

Rollins and the other 74 current employees joined the union under a specialized membership which stripped them of voting rights but allowed them to work although their union local is on strike, he said.