Overnite Transportation Company Named South Carolina's Best

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/. 

DATASOURCE: Overnite Transportation Company



CONTACT: Laurie Beasley, Editor, Corporate Communications of Overnite

Transportation Company, [phone], or 



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

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