Overnite Opens New, Expanded Denver Service Center

 DENVER, April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overnite Transportation Company, one of the nation's leading less-than-truckload carriers, announced this week the official opening of its new Denver Service Center, an important facility in its distribution network for the West and the entire nation.

 The new facility located on a 20-acre site features 90 doors, doubling the capacity of Overnite's former Denver Service Center. Overnite's new center, which employs 84 people, is the latest in a series of company upgrades, market expansions and transit-time improvements.

 "Relocating our Denver Service Center has allowed us to strengthen our service capabilities by increasing the capacity of this key location," said Steve Kershner, Vice President-Quality and Operations Support. "As our customers' needs in Denver and the surrounding area have grown, we have grown with them so we can continue to deliver the reliable, on-time service they have come to expect from Overnite."

 Overnite's Denver facility provides next-day service across the Denver metropolitan area, as well as to Kansas City, Kan., and Salt Lake City. Its two-day service extends into key markets in the West and Midwest including Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Oklahoma City, and into Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Freight destined for points in California, Oregon and Washington State, as well as to select markets in the South and along the Atlantic Coast, fall under a three- day umbrella.

 Overnite's new Denver Service Center is located at 5300 East 56th Avenue, Commerce City, Colo., 80022. The phone number is 303-286-7500, and the fax number is 303-286-7977. The service center manager is Danny Warner.

 Overnite Transportation Company, which provides a complete menu of regional, interregional and long-haul services, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overnite Corporation (Nasdaq: OVNT), which also owns Motor Cargo Industries. Together, they form one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in the United States with more than 200 service centers and a fleet of over 6,000 tractors and more than 22,000 trailers, covering all 50 states and providing customers with direct access to more than 45,000 cities in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Mexico. More information is available on the company's Web site, http://www.overnite.com.

SOURCE: Overnite Transportation Company

CONTACT: Ira Rosenfeld, Director, Corporate Communications, of Overnite Transportation Company, +1-804-291-5362 or Irosenfeld@overnite.com

Web site: http://www.overnite.com
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