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Yellow Roadway CEO to Present at Deutsche Bank Transportation ConferenceOVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bill Zollars, Chairman, President and CEO of Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL), will deliver a company presentation at the Deutsche Bank Global Transportation Conference at 11:15am ET on February 16, 2005. The conference will be held at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 280 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples, Florida.

Interested investors can access a live audio webcast of the presentation through the Yellow Roadway Corporation website, http://www.yellowroadway.com , or at: http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/confLobby.zhtml?ticker=YELL&item_id=982066 . A replay of the presentation will be available for 30 days.

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 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: Investors, 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