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Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call For October 28, 2005

Oct 05, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call For October 28, 2005OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL) will host a conference call for shareholders and the investment community on Friday, October 28, 2005, beginning at 9:30am ET, 8:30am CT. Third quarter earnings will be released after the market close on Thursday, October 27, 2005.

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, YRC Regional Transportation; James Welch-President, Yellow Transportation; Mike Smid-President, Roadway Express; and Jim Ritchie-President, Meridian IQ.

Investors and analysts should dial 1.888.609.3912 at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.

The conference call will be open to listeners through a live webcast via StreetEvents at streetevents.com and via the Yellow Roadway Corporation Internet site yellowroadway.com.

An audio playback will be available beginning two hours after the call ends until midnight on November 11, 2005, by calling 1.800.642.1687 and then entering the access code 8410636. 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, a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest transportation service providers in the world. Through its brands, including Yellow Transportation, Roadway Express, Reimer Express, USF, New Penn Motor Express and Meridian IQ, Yellow Roadway provides a wide range of asset and non-asset-based transportation services. The portfolio of brands 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 approximately 70,000 people.

SOURCE: Yellow Roadway Corporation

CONTACT: Investors, Phil Gaines of Yellow Roadway Corporation,
+1-913-696-6108, phil.gaines@yellowroadway.com , or Media, Suzanne Dawson of
Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, +1-212-329-1420, sdawson@lakpr.com
Web site: http://www.yellowroadway.com