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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has ratified a new five-year labor contract with YRCW carriers including Roadway and Reimer Express.
"The contract gives us the tools to serve our customers in what is an increasingly dynamic industry environment. The contract includes flexibilities that will allow the company to provide enhanced customer services," stated YRC North American Transportation President Mike Smid.
"Most important," Smid added, "the ratified contract was a win-win for the company and employees. Our drivers, dockworkers and other union members are the best in the business.
"This contract is our blueprint for superior customer service and company performance over the next five years."
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Ron VanBibber, a driver account specialist from the Roadway service center in Salt Lake City, UT, has some safety tips to share for winter driving.
The March safe winter driving tip--Use extra caution when approaching bridges.
"Elevated structures like bridges and highway overpasses usually freeze first and many are not treated with ice/snow melt materials (salt, sand) like the rest of the road. I've seen many vehicles traveling fine on the highway, but as soon as they get on a bridge they spin out of control. Black ice is also often found on bridges."
Check out Ron's complete list of tips for winter driving.
The ability to build and maintain a global supply chain just got easier.
Now you can simply call the Roadway International Hotline at 1-800-INTLREX (468-5739), press option #4 for a Global Service quote and receive it either the same or next day.
Customers requesting quotes will receive port-to-port and port-to-U.S. door information on the same day. Next day quotes can include door-to-door, unusual ports, special equipment and multiple lane information. Standard rate quotes can include air/ocean forwarding, inland transportation, cargo insurance and customs brokerage.
Hours of operation are daily between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Central Time.
Get more information about Roadway Global Services or call the Roadway International Hotline at 1-800-INTLREX (468-5739), and press option #4.
"Roadway, Your Way" is more than a tagline. Our Custom Solutions team is a dedicated group of individuals who takes your greatest logistical challenges, and turns them into solutions for success.
Product rollouts, new store openings and resets, specialized pickup and delivery needs, and reverse logistics require concrete design, detailed planning, and flawless execution.
Over the past year, Roadway has delivered success for a multitude of logistics projects, including:
--Coordinated, time-specific product launches to thousands of store sites across the continent
--Complete management of a 400-site, new store opening program, including both construction and opening-day inventory
--Customized home and business delivery of B2C merchandise (including packaging, labeling, assembly, and debris removal)
--Integrated reverse logistics and disposal of tens of thousands of recalled products
We can combine our Custom Solutions approach with our time-based services to deliver unparalleled success for your business.
To learn more about Roadway Custom Solutions visit http://www.roadway.com/services/custom_solutions.html or contact your Roadway sales representative today!
3/4-3/6 Networking Vendor Fair (PowerTrack). Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, CA.
3/10-3/12 Exhibitor 2008. Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV.
3/27-3/29 American Red Cross Conference. Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.
3/31-4/4 National Hurricane Conference. Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando,
FL.
4/1-4/5 American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA), 2008 Education Conference & Expo. Omni Orlando Resort, Orlando, FL.
4/7 Transportation Club Expo. Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN.
If you are visiting Anaheim, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Orlando or Bloomington while we're in town, be sure to stop and say hello!
View a list of major shows occurring in the next few months.
Check out our Sealed Exhibit video or get info about Roadway Exhibit Services.
Transportation professionals can easily find themselves cornered by business needs--pressure from production, sales, and finance. The incredible challenge of growing both sales and margins results in requests that seem almost impossible...
Does this sound like something you've experienced? Sales: "We just secured this hot order. It has to be there on Monday!" Production: "Our line is a bit behind. It may be ready by Thursday, but most likely it will be ready Friday." Finance: "We need to do a better job of managing costs. We can't always send these rush orders by air!"
When you are faced with a challenge like this, let Roadway be your understanding partner.
Roadway Time Critical™ Service has some distinct advantages that make this sort of painful scenario turn into your chance to be a hero.
Roadway has tens of thousands of Time-Critical Friday-to-Monday lanes to help you avoid the prohibitive cost of overnight airfreight charges over the weekend.
The end result? Your sales grows through increased satisfaction. Profits grow through effectively managed expediting--and it's all thanks
to you--the hero!
Learn more about Roadway time-based services, and how they can help your business by visiting http://www.roadway.com/services/timebased.html. Give us a call or login to my.Roadway.com and ship with us today!
The Charlotte, NC, Roadway service center recently held "The Million Mile Breakfast" in honor of Charlotte's newest safety champions to reach the outstanding milestone of driving one million miles--accident-free--Roadway professional drivers Ron Delvecchio, Kevin Trapp, and James Furr.
Logging one million miles is the equivalent of circling the earth's equator 40 times, all those miles WITHOUT a preventable accident.
We congratulate Ron Delvecchio, Kevin Trapp, and James Furr for their dedication to safety and achieving such a superior safety milestone.
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Roadway is proud to announce the 2008 Professional Freight Handlers Competition (PFHC), held April 21Ð23, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort & Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
The annual competition recognizes our safest and most skilled professional freight handlers.
Thirty regional champions will face four challenges: a written examination, a personal interview, a pretrip inspection, and a forklift maneuverability course--while competing for the Grand Championship title.
Find out more!
Q: Where can I find the most recent Roadway Certificate of Insurance?
A: You can view or download our 2008-2009 Certificate of Insurance in our Forms Library.
Q: Where can I find the Roadway C-TPAT certificate and customer letter?
A: Easy! Just visit our online Homeland Security Certified & Compliant section.
Q: Is Roadway TSA certified?
A: Definitely! See our TSA certification online.
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Curious how shipments move through our system? Take a virtual tour!
Not sure what transportation services Roadway offers?
Roadway offer a broad range of shipping services for virtually any transportation situation such as:
Read about all of our transportation services.
E-commerce solutions at my.roadway.com can help drive costs out of your supply chain and provide superior state-of-the-art service for both you and your customers.
America's Road Team member and Roadway professional driver Kent Durant presented a trailer to the Greensburg, KS, public school district.
The trailer, donated by GE Trailer Fleet Services, will house a school library as the town rebuilds after a devastating tornado in May 2007.
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Fellow Roadway professional drivers and one-million milers Nick Ogrodnick, Robert Easterling, Louis Tucker and Neil Davis (left to right) provide an honor guard for the newest one million mile accident-free drivers at the Charlotte, NC Million Mile Breakfast.
