A Stevedore is a person employed, or a contractor engaged, at a dock to load and unload cargo from ships.
Connie Sellecca does not appear as she was pregnant at the time with her first child with Gil Gerard.
Paul Koslo and Dennis Burkley also portrayed bikers in a similarly themed Rockford Files, The Return of the Black Shadow (1979), reversing roles a bit as Koslo played the leader and Burkley played the underling. Both were written and produced by Stephen J. Cannell and the music in both was by Pete Carpenter and Mike Post.