Roadway Express Career Opportunities

Company:
Roadway Express
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Location(s):
Corporate Offices
Akron,  OH
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Industry:
Transportation
Size:
500 or more

Company Overview

Roadway Express specializes in transportation solutions through a full-service network, advanced information technologies, and proactive local customer service. A leading transporter of industrial, commercial, and retail goods, Roadway offers the industry's most reliable and flexible time-based services, Time-Critical™ Service and Time-Advantage™ Service. Other innovative services include Sealed Divider™ Service for extra protection in transit and Roadway Custom Solutions for special project and logistics management. Rounding out offerings are services for tradeshow exhibits, volume shipments, cold-sensitive products, and product returns.

Roadway provides seamless transportation throughout Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Service within Canada is provided by Reimer Express Lines Ltd., a Roadway Express subsidiary. Global logistics solutions for import and export shipping are provided in conjunction with Meridian IQ, a subsidiary of Yellow Roadway Corporation. An ISO 9001:2000 certified transportation provider, Roadway is approved for the C-TPAT, PIP and FAST programs for supply chain security. Roadway Express is a subsidiary of Yellow Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq: YELL), one of the largest transportation services providers in the world. Yellow Roadway Corporation provides a wide range of asset and non-asset-based transportation services integrated by technology. Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Yellow Roadway Corporation employs approximately 70,000 people.

Company Overview

  • Founded in 1930.
  • Leading transporter of industrial, commercial, and retail goods specializing in solutions for businesses across North America through a full-service network, advanced information technologies, and proactive local customer service.
  • Seamless transportation throughout Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
  • Global transportation and logistics solutions for import and export shipments.
  • ISO 9001:2000 certified carrier.
  • Approved for the C-TPAT, FAST and PIP programs for supply chain security.
  • Operating subsidiaries: Reimer Express Lines Ltd. (Canada) and Roadway Reverse Logistics, Inc.
  • Network in Mexico operated by YRC Transportation S.A. de C.V.
  • Employees: 23,000
  • Service centers: 365
  • Trailers: 32,095 /Tractors-9,362
  • Average number of shipments delivered per working day: 50,406
  • Average length of haul: 1,263 miles
  • Average shipment weight: 1,199 pounds
  • Tons of freight delivered in 2004: 7,642,183 tons
  • Number of miles logged by linehaul drivers in 2004: 467,320,078 miles
  • A subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc.

    For more information visit our web site at http://www.roadway.com/crc/testmain.html