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Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Fourth QuarterConference Call for January 30, 2004

Jan 16, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST
Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Fourth QuarterConference Call for January 30, 2004

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan 16, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- A teleconference review of Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL) fourth quarter 2003 financial results has been scheduled for January 30, 2004, beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST, 8:30 a.m. CST. Fourth quarter earnings will be released after the market close on Thursday, January 29, 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; 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 www.streetevents.com and via the Yellow Roadway Corporation Internet site www.yellowcorp.com .

An audio playback will be available beginning two hours after the call ends until midnight on February 10 by calling 1.800.642.1687 and then entering the access code, 4131743. 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 a Fortune 500 Company and one of the largest transportation service providers in the world. Through its subsidiaries including Yellow Transportation, Roadway Express, Roadway Next Day Corporation, Meridian IQ and Yellow Technologies, Yellow Roadway offers its customers a wide range of asset and non-asset-based transportation services integrated by technology. The Yellow Roadway portfolio of brands provides one of the most comprehensive package of services for the shipment of industrial, commercial and retail goods domestically and internationally. Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Yellow Roadway Corporation employs approximately 50,000 people.

SOURCE Yellow Roadway Corporation

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