It offers asset and nonasset-based transportation services.
The company operates through four segments: Yellow Transportation, Roadway Express, Roadway Next Day, and Meridian IQ.
Yellow Transportation offers regional, national, and international services for the movement of industrial, commercial, and retail goods.
Roadway Express segment offers long-haul, and interregional and regional less-than-truckload freight services, which include apparel, appliances, automotive parts, chemicals, food, furniture, glass machinery, metal and metal products, nonbulk petroleum products, rubber, textiles, wood, and miscellaneous manufactured products.
In addition, it also offers truckload services.
Roadway Next Day segment provides regional and next day ground services.
Meridian IQ segment offers international forwarding and customs brokerage, multimodal brokerage, domestic forwarding and expedited, and transportation solutions and technology management services.
As of December 31, 2004, the company operated 721 freight terminals.
The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
