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Enhancements to MyYellow Increase Ease of Use

Jul 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Enhancements to MyYellow Increase Ease of UseOVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yellow Transportation, a subsidiary of global transportation leader Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL), today announced the launch of MyYellow Bill of Lading functionality upgrade.

The enhancements to MyYellow Bill of Lading increases ease of use by offering manifest capabilities, which enable customers to include multiple shipments in one legal document.

"The manifest creation and management capabilities offer customers who load dropped trailers or manage huge shipment roll-outs a flexible, online solution. This capability is leading-edge within the transportation industry. MyYellow Bill of Lading tool also has multi-carrier functionality which conveniently provides Yellow customers with one, central online shipping solution," said Jon Steele-Nail, Senior Director, E-Business.

MyYellow Bill of Lading is designed so that customers can create and manage their bills of lading, print labels and schedule pickups within one online tool. MyYellow Bill of Lading also includes a database create/search feature, allowing customers to save time when accessing customer and product information.

The Bill of Lading manifest functionality allows a larger base of customers with many shipments a day to use the tool more effectively to save time. The online Bill of Lading system allows customers to choose package size or class and explains maximum constraints on dimensions.

The new improvements to the system will allow customers to print labels for all or individual shipments on a manifest at one time, and continue to edit individual shipment information until the manifest is finalized. In addition, the enhancement allows customers to email the manifest and label PDFs to up to three recipients and include a trailer description and comments. All manifests, as well as all individual bills of lading, can be reviewed for up to 90 days after submission. Customers will save time with the upgrades to MyYellow Bill of Lading. The new functionality is now available to registered MyYellow users at http://myyellow.com .

About Yellow Transportation

Yellow Transportation offers a full range of national, regional and international services for the movement of industrial, commercial and retail goods. Through a broad array of innovative customer solutions including Exact Express, Definite Delivery, Standard Ground, and Standard Ground Regional Advantage, Yellow provides customers with best-in-class service. Yellow Transportation is a subsidiary of Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL), one of the largest transportation service providers in the world. For more information please visit http://myyellow.com .

SOURCE Yellow Transportation

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