Roadway Fun Facts

Roadway Express, Inc., was founded in 1930, the same year that Herbert Hoover was president; artist Grant Wood painted the famous “American Gothic” painting; and Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, was discovered.

Roadway delivers about 8.4 million tons of freight each year, which is about the same as shipping the Statue of Liberty 100 times each day, or delivering the largest hamburger on record (which weighed 2.5 tons) six times every minute.

The average shipment on a Roadway truck weighs 1,132 pounds, which is about the same weight as a Thoroughbred race horse.

Roadway’s over-the-road drivers log about 530 million miles annually, which is the equivalent of driving around the earth’s equator 21,314 times in one year, or 58 times in one day.

Roadway delivers an average of 59,000 shipments each working day, which is equal to about 41 shipments a minute, or one delivery for an adult’s every two heartbeats.

Since 1930, a grand total of 21 Roadway drivers have driven more than four million miles without an accident. It would take the average motorist 332 years to drive that far.

*Figures in the analogies are approximate.