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Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call for October 22, 2004

Sep 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT
Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call for October 22, 2004OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A teleconference review of Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL) third quarter 2004 financial results has been scheduled for Friday, October 22, 2004, beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET, 8:30 a.m. CT. Third quarter earnings will be released after the market close on Thursday, October 21, 2004.

Hosting the teleconference will be: Bill Zollars -- Chairman, President and CEO, Yellow Roadway Corporation; Don Barger -- Sr. Vice President and CFO, Yellow Roadway Corporation; Jim Staley -- President and CEO, Roadway Group; James Welch -- President and CEO, Yellow Transportation; and Jim Ritchie -- President and CEO, Meridian IQ.

To participate, please dial 1.888.609.3912. Callers should dial in 5 to 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.

The conference call will be webcast live via StreetEvents at http://www.streetevents.com and via the Yellow Roadway Corporation Internet site http://www.yellowroadway.com .

An audio playback will be available beginning two hours after the call ends until midnight on October 29, 2004 by calling 1.800.642.1687 and then entering the access code, 211186. An audio playback also will be available for 30 days after the call via the StreetEvents and Yellow Roadway Corporation web sites.

Yellow Roadway Corporation is one of the largest transportation service providers in the world. Through its subsidiaries including Yellow Transportation, Roadway Express, New Penn Motor Express, Reimer Express, Meridian IQ and Yellow Technologies, Yellow Roadway provides a wide range of asset and non-asset-based transportation services integrated by technology. The portfolio of brands provided through Yellow Roadway Corporation subsidiaries represents a comprehensive array of services for the shipment of industrial, commercial and retail goods domestically and internationally. Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Yellow Roadway Corporation employs over 50,000 people.

SOURCE Yellow Roadway Corporation

CONTACT: Analysts, Stephen Bruffett of Yellow Roadway Corporation, +1-913-696-6108, steve.bruffett@yellowroadway.com , or Media, Suzanne Dawson of Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, +1-212-329-1420, sdawson@lakpr.com
Web site: http://www.yellowroadway.com