Overnite Opens New, Expanded Denver Service Center
April 13 2005 - 9:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
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. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050408/OVNTLOGO ) 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/.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Overnite Transportation
Company CONTACT: Ira Rosenfeld, Director, Corporate Communications,
of Overnite Transportation Company, +1-804-291-5362 or Web site:
http://www.overnite.com/
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