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Con-way Truckload Employees Raise Nearly $62,000 in 2008 Truckloads of Treasures Holiday Giving Campaign

Donations Split Between Eight Charitable Organizations to Benefit Local Children and Elderly

JOPLIN, Mo. - December 05, 2008

Con-way Truckload, a full-truckload carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW), today announced that its employees raised $61,780 in the company’s annual Truckloads of Treasures campaign to support deserving area children and senior citizens during the holidays. Employees purchased gifts including toys, blankets, clothing and food for 200 children and 100 senior citizens in the Joplin area, with remaining funds to be distributed to eight local nonprofit organizations.

Nearly 200 employees, along with their friends and family, met at Joplin’s Target store Dec. 4 for a Truckloads of Treasures shopping event to buy gifts for this year’s recipients. Of the remaining funds, $7,000 will be donated to The Salvation Army for food baskets. Each of the following charitable agencies will receive a donation of $4,540: Agency on Aging, Camp Quality, Joplin Family Y, Boys and Girls Club, Ronald McDonald House, Children’s Miracle Network and The Bridge.

“We thank Con-way Truckload employees for their great generosity and hard work with this program,” said Captain Mary Poff, pastor for the Joplin Salvation Army. “The food baskets they are providing our local community will help feed the hungry and provide healthy holiday meals at a time when people are finding it harder and harder to feed their families.”

Truckloads of Treasures funds are raised through an employee raffle of prizes donated by executive management. This year’s items included a day off with pay plus $250 in cash; $400 cash; one week off with pay; two weeks off with pay; and $200 gift cards to local and national businesses. Truckloads of Treasures team members sell tickets at different dollar amounts depending on the raffle prize. For every $20 in tickets purchased, employees received one ticket for a drawing to win a $400 gas gift card.

“Con-way Truckload people dug deep and actually beat last year’s fundraising record by 50 percent despite the challenging economy,” said Herb Schmidt, Con-way Truckload’s president. “Employees at every level of the company pitched in to support our Truckloads of Treasures tradition, and we appreciate the opportunities it provides us to help those who need it most during the holiday season.”

Con-way Truckload created Truckloads of Treasures in the mid-90s. Since then, the company has presented more than $250,000 in employee-raised donations to the local organizations through the program.

About Con-way Truckload

Joplin, Mo.-based Con-way Truckload is an operating company of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW) and a leading provider of expedited, time-definite full-truckload transportation services across North America. Formerly Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI), Con-way Truckload today employs over 3,000 drivers with a fleet of more than 2,700 tractors and 8,600 trailers operating throughout the United States as well as internationally in Mexico and Canada. The company provides full-truckload transportation serving the transcontinental shipping needs of commercial and industrial businesses as well as sister company Con-way Freight. For more about Con-way Truckload, visit us on the Web at www.con-way.com/truckload or call (800) 641-4747.

Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW) is a $4.7 billion freight transportation and global logistics company.

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