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Yellow Roadway to Hold Investor Meeting Upon Closing of USF AcquisitionOVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL) will host a meeting for investors and analysts on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, at 4:30 p.m. ET. The meeting will be held at The Waldorf-Astoria, Empire Room, 301 Park Avenue at 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Bill Zollars, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Yellow Roadway, will make a presentation and be available to answer questions from those in attendance.

Investors and analysts may listen to the presentation by dialing 719-457-2658 or 800-946-0783 at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the presentation. Other listeners may access the presentation via live webcast through the Yellow Roadway Internet site at http://www.yellowroadway.com . The presentation material will also be available on this website.

An audio replay of the presentation will be available beginning three hours after the presentation ends until June 7, 2005 by calling 719-457-0820 or 888-203-1112 and entering the access code 7540680. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days.

Yellow Roadway Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, 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 Roadway 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: Investor, 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