Services Provided as Part of Ryder's Dedicated Contract Carriage Offering

MIAMI, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a global leader in supply chain, warehousing and transportation solutions, today announced that The Roanoke (Va.) Times, a Landmark Communications newspaper with a daily circulation of approximately 100,000, has renewed a three-year Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC) transportation contract with Ryder. Under the DCC contract, Ryder will manage delivery of The Roanoke Times from its printing plants to its circulation distribution centers, providing a turnkey package that includes customized vehicles, drivers, fleet management, dock operations management and preventive and programmed maintenance for the equipment.

Ryder's DCC service is a customized suite of transportation management services for the delivery of a customer's products that optimizes its fleet operations and allows its management to be more focused on core business issues.

"We've been pleased with our partnership with Ryder over the past several years," said Wendy Zomparelli, President and Publisher of The Roanoke Times. "Ryder has improved the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our transportation operation. They've been responsive not only in helping us deal with problems but also in anticipating change and looking for ways to save us money."

"Ryder has been serving the newspaper and publishing industry for more than 53 years and we are honored with the trust The Roanoke Times has placed in us and in our ability to deliver higher levels of operational excellence and customer satisfaction," said Jim Isaacson, Ryder's Vice President of Operations for High-Tech and Consumer Industries.

Ryder has business relationships with 70 newspapers nationally, including the Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald.

About Ryder

Ryder is a Fortune 500 company providing leading-edge transportation, logistics and supply chain management solutions worldwide. Ryder's stock (NYSE: R) is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For more information about Ryder System, Inc., visit http://www.ryder.com.

Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Certain statements and information included in this presentation are "forward-looking statements" under the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Accordingly, these forward-looking statements should be evaluated with consideration given to the many risks and uncertainties inherent in our business that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause such differences include, among others, our ability to obtain adequate profit margins for our services, our inability to maintain current pricing levels due to customer acceptance or competition, customer retention levels, the possibility that changes in customers' business environments will limit their ability to commit to long-term vehicle leases, changes in market conditions affecting the commercial rental market or the sale of used vehicles, higher borrowing costs and possible decreases in available funding sources caused by adverse changes in debt ratings, changes in accounting assumptions, adequacy of accounting accruals, changes in general economic conditions, availability of heavy- and medium-duty vehicles, increases in fuel prices, availability of qualified drivers, the Company's ability to create operating synergies in connection with its acquisitions of Ruan and General, and changes in government regulations, including regulations regarding vehicle emissions, drivers' hours of service and security regulations issued by the Department of Homeland Security. The risks included here are not exhaustive. New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors or to assess the impact of such risks on the Company's business. Accordingly, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

SOURCE Ryder System, Inc.

CONTACT:
Lisa Brumfield, 1-305-500-3668, Lisa_Brumfield@Ryder.com,
or Edward Rifenburg, 1-305-500-4161, Edward_Rifenburg@Ryder.com,
both of Ryder System, Inc.

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