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Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules First Quarter Conference Call for April 22, 2005

Apr 11, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Yellow Roadway Corporation Schedules First Quarter Conference Call for April 22, 2005OVERLAND PARK, Kan., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL) will host a conference call for shareholders and the investment community on Friday, April 22, 2005, beginning at 9:30 am ET, 8:30 am CT. First quarter earnings will be released after the market close on Thursday, April 21, 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, Regional Companies; James Welch- President, Yellow Transportation; Bob Stull-President, Roadway Express; and Jim Ritchie-President, Meridian IQ.

Investors and analysts should dial 1.888.428.4478 at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call.

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

An audio playback will be available beginning two hours after the call ends until midnight on May 6, 2005 by calling 1.800.475.6701 and then entering the access code, 776452. 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 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