Overnite Transportation Company Named South Carolina's Best

COLUMBIA, S.C., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Overnite Transportation Company, one of the nation's leading less-than-truckload carriers, was awarded first- place honors at the South Carolina Trucking Association's Annual Safety Awards Banquet held here.

 The company was named recipient of the state's top safety honor for 2004 in the Industrial Safety General Commodities category for companies with 501- 1,000 employees.

 Overnite also received two second-place awards for General Commodities carriers at the SCTA's safety awards ceremony on March 15. The first was for Local General Commodities carriers traveling 2-5 million miles last year and another went to Overnite for the General Commodities Combined category for carriers traveling 10-15 million miles in 2004.

 "Overnite is honored to received these three outstanding safety awards from the SCTA," Vice President-Safety and Security Phil Warren said. "These awards say a lot about the caliber of our people, both in South Carolina and across our system. Our drivers and Operations personnel have the highest standards for safety and professionalism, and these safety awards exemplify those qualities."

 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: Laurie Beasley, Editor, Corporate Communications of Overnite Transportation Company, +1-804-291-5889, or Llbeasley@overnite.com

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

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