Company
YRC Worldwide Inc.
Headquarters: Overland Park, KS, United States
Founded: 1929
Employees: 19,000
YRC Worldwide Inc. Categories
United States Industrials TruckingUnited States Industrials United States Trucking
Top Competitors by Market Capitalization
Industry: Trucking
Sector:
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|---|---|
| General Electric | $178.42 B |
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Detailed Description
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, time-specific delivery, cross-border, coast-to-coast air delivery, product return, temperature-sensitive shipment protection, and government material shipment. It serves manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and government customers. As of December 31, 2019, this segment had a fleet of approximately 7,700 tractors comprising 5,500 owned and 2,200 leased tractors; and 29,800 trailers consisting of 21,500 owned and 8,300 leased trailers. The Regional Transportation segment offers regional delivery services, which include next-day and second-day delivery, 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 provide online resources to manage transportation activities. This segment had a fleet of approximately 6,400 tractors, including 4,800 owned and 1,600 leased tractors; and 13,900 trailers comprising 9,800 owned and 4,100 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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Stocks & Indices
YRC Worldwide Inc. has the following listings and related stock indices.
Stock: NASDAQ: YRCW wb_incandescent
Key People
Founder(s): G. C. " Cleve" Harrell A. J. Harrell
Darren Hawkins (CEO)
Financials
Revenue: $ 4.891 billion (2012)
Operating income: $ 98 million (2017)
Net income: $ -10.8 million (2017)
Total assets: $ 1.586 billion (2017)
Total equity: $ -354 million (2017)