YRC Worldwide Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of transportation services primarily in North America. The company operates in two segments, YRC Freight and Regional Transportation. The YRC Freight segment offers various services to transport industrial, commercial, and retail goods; and provides specialized services, including guaranteed expedited services, time-specific deliveries, cross-border services, coast-to-coast air delivery, product returns, temperature-sensitive shipment protection, and government material shipments. It serves manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and government customers. As of December 31, 2018, this segment had a fleet of approximately 7,600 tractors comprising 5,400 owned and 2,200 leased tractors; and 30,700 trailers consisting of 22,700 owned and 8,000 leased trailers. The Regional Transportation segment provides regional delivery services, which include next-day local area delivery and second-day, consolidation/distribution, protect-from-freezing and hazardous materials handling, truckload, and other specialized services; guaranteed and expedited delivery services consisting of day-definite, hour-definite, and time definite capabilities; interregional delivery services; and cross-border delivery services, as well as operates hollandregional.com, newpenn.com, and reddawayregional.com e-commerce Websites that offer online resources to manage transportation activities. This segment had a fleet of approximately 6,500 tractors, including 4,800 owned and 1,700 leased tractors; and 14,300 trailers comprising 10,600 owned and 3,700 leased trailers. The company was formerly known as Yellow Roadway Corporation and changed its name to YRC Worldwide Inc. in January 2006. YRC Worldwide Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
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