CCX Driver Dotson Wins Delaware Motor Transit Association Award

14 April 2000

CCX Driver Ralph Dotson Wins Delaware Motor Transit Association "Driver of the Month Award"

    SEAFORD, Del.--April 13, 2000--Con-Way Central Express (CCX) employee Ralph Dotson has been voted Driver of the Month by the Delaware Motor Transport Association (DMTA) who will present him with a plaque this month. The driver sales representative for CCX's Seaford, DE service center was nominated by company officials for his safety record and outstanding customer service. CCX is a regional less-than-truckload commercial freight carrier and a component company of Con-Way Transportation Services (CON-WAY).
    "Ralph is an example of the best of the best in our industry," said Richard V. Palazzo, president and chief executive officer of CCX, "and he personifies our company's values - the utmost dedication to safety, unqualified professionalism, and superior customer service. We're very glad that he's out there every day representing CCX."
    Dotson has been in the trucking industry for 21 years and has won a number of recognition and service awards. This latest award acknowledges his safety record of driving more than two million accident-free miles throughout his career. Since he joined CCX in 1995, he has driven more than 650,000 of those miles. His outstanding skills also led him to win the title of "Grand Champion" in Delaware's 1999 State Truck Driving Championships. He also won first place in the Twins Class competition, which qualified him to compete in the 1999 National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC), sponsored by the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The NTDC is considered the "World Series" of the trucking industry.
    Ralph and his wife of 30 years, Jacqueline, live in Cambridge, MD. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.
    Con-Way Central Express is an operating component company of Con-Way Transportation Services, a $1.9 billion transportation company that provides time-definite and day-definite freight delivery and logistics services for commercial and industrial businesses. Within the CON-WAY family of companies are regional less-than-truckload carriers Con-Way Central Express, Con-Way Southern Express and Con-Way Western Express; Con-Way Truckload Services, providing multi-modal, full truckload shipping; Con-Way NOW, an expedited carrier specializing in emergency shipment service; and Con-Way Integrated Services, a contract supply chain execution service provider.

    CON-WAY is a subsidiary of Palo Alto, California-based CNF (NYSE:CNF) a $5.6 billion management company of global supply chain services with businesses in regional trucking, air freight, ocean freight, customs brokerage, global logistics management and trailer manufacturing.

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