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1. SCAC CHANGE: Our Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) changes March 1, 2009. Yellow Transportation (YFSY) and Roadway (RDWY) become YRC. YRC will be using the “RDWY” SCAC on March 1, 2009 and beyond. If you use the SCAC for internal systems or processes, be sure to inform your internal stakeholders or supply chain partners. For Reimer Express the SCAC will remain REIM.

2. YRC CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER: Come to expect the same great level of customer service you do today with the YRC Customer Support Center. You will utilize the same Yellow and Roadway Express phone numbers you use today to be connected to a YRC Customer Support Center expert. In addition to the enhanced Interactive Voice Response (IVR) customer support system, you also have the following options to self-serve: web, Live Chat, email or fax.

3. YRC EDI SYSTEMS: If you currently use either the Yellow Freight or Roadway or Reimer Express EDI systems, you’ll find our EDI and technology teams have been working to complete any new set-ups and testing that might be required.

YRC Sales Teams Provide Integrated Solutions: YRC is creating the most comprehensive network in North America leveraging our Corporate, Field, and Specialized Solutions shipping expertise. This network is more than our physical network of 430+ service centers, equipment, and technology–it is also our PEOPLE.

Customers told us that an integrated sales approach created efficiencies for them when the YRC Corporate Sales team was launched in 2008.

Yellow Transportation and Roadway Field Sales and Specialized Services Sales teams have been integrated into the YRC Sales Team and are ready to serve.

Be confident knowing that an experienced account executive who understands your business is available to provide solutions to enable success in your supply chain with your customers.

YRC Solutions Portfolio: Customers have also told us that they prefer dealing with a simply reliable expert who knows the business and is focused on delivering heavyweight solutions. They need access to a broad portfolio of solutions that enable their supply chain. Yellow Transportation and Roadway Express bring over 160 years of combined experience together in a single, easy to access, flexible solutions portfolio.

Over the weekend of February 28-March 1, 2009, Yellow Transport and Roadway Express will complete the transition to YRC and YRC Reimer in Canada.

YRC will become the most comprehensive heavyweight shipping network in North America.

You can be confident knowing that Yellow Freight, Roadway, and Reimer shipments will be finalized as they deliver. Final EDI delivery status, invoices, and delivery receipts will be sent as Yellow, Roadway, and Reimer for shipments prior to March 1, 2009.

Access tracking information via yrc.com for all shipments.

March 2, 2009–We welcome you to the integrated YRC and YRC Reimer. We look forward to helping you succeed in 2009 and beyond.

Nearly all businesses across industries are feeling the stress and strain of this prolonged economic down turn.

At YRC, we have the people, the plans, and now the financial flexibility to confidently deliver on our commitments to customers.

Last week, YRC Worldwide reached an amended agreement with its banking group to provide flexibility to manage through current economic challenges. This agreement provides the flexibility to continue providing customers with exceptional global transportation and logistics services.

“We are pleased with the banks’ support of our strategic actions and their confidence in our ability to improve our financial position,” says Tim Wicks, Executive Vice President and CFO of YRC Worldwide.

Yellow Transportation and Roadway Express bring over 160 years of combined experience together in a single, easy to access, flexible solutions portfolio.

How is Fedex and Kinkos a Strategic Partnership?

Fedex purchased Kinkos, Viking Freight, American Freight,and some other companies and now FedEx owns these companies: This was a move to compete with UPS purchasing the MailBox Ect franchise.

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Union Pacific Railroad Co. is claiming that Arizona Electric Power Cooperative Inc. refused to recognize a contract that deals with transporting coal from mines in Colorado and Wyoming to Southern Arizona, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

The contract establishes rates and terms for transporting the coal from the railroad company’s mines to a power plant in Cochise, between Benson and Willcox, the complaint says.

But the power cooperative has denied the parties entered into a contract and demanded Union Pacific establish common carrier rates for moving the coal, according to the complaint.

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Railroad freight carloads bucked a negative national trend in northeastern Pennsylvania in 2008.

Freight carloadings for Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority’s contract rail operator, the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, were 7,831 cars in 2008 compared to 7,821 cars for 2007.

Nationwide, freight car-loadings were down 2.2% in 2008 due to negative economic conditions experienced by some of the industries that rely on rail freight service, particularly construction-related and home-building industries, such as lumber.

“The strong performance of rail freight shipments from the 25 active rail-served industries along our 100-mile regional rail system is a continuing verification of the growing trend to use rail freight as a less expensive and energy-efficient means of transportation for our local industries,” said Larry Malski, president of the state railroad authority.

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The rub is this: Verizon is a common carrier. The original idea was that in exchange for having access to the public way for their wires (and tax dollars in the form of subsidies) they provide service without …

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“Absolutely, this is costing us,” Dan Watson, terminal manager at Reimer Express Lines, a division of YRC, which has from 40-to-50 trucks on the regions roads every day, told the Sun. He said it’s too early in the crisis to peg the dollar cost or the time …

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