YRC waits to see whether Ohio closing brings jobs to KC

YRC Worldwide's closing of an office in Akron, Ohio, could bring 50 to 100 employees to the Kansas City area.

It could be a few months before YRC Worldwide Inc.? ? YRC Worldwide Inc. Latest from The Business Journals YRC Worldwide to sell Akron, Ohio, facilityYRC may cut 100 jobs, sell former Roadway headquartersTrucking company to sell Akron facility, up to 100 to lose jobs Follow this company can say how many new jobs are coming to Kansas City from a closing Ohio operation.

Jeff Rogers, president of YRC Inc., the Overland Park-based company?s (Nasdaq: YRCW) national less-than-truckload division, said in an interview Friday that officials still are trying to determine how to divide the 260 jobs affected by the sale of the former Roadway Corp. headquarters in Akron, Ohio.

YRC acquired the building as part of the 2003 merger of Yellow Corp. and Roadway.

Rogers said that 50 to 100 of the jobs will be eliminated and that another 50 to 100 will be relocated to other spots in Ohio. That leaves 50 to 100 being moved to locations outside the state, including the company?s Overland Park headquarters.

?At the end of the day, there?s definitely going to be some jobs here in Kansas, but we don?t know how many,? he said, depending on such things as how duties are consolidated and how many Akron employees agree to relocate.

Other locations likely to get those jobs are in Des Moines and South Dakota.

For Rogers, the headquarters sale furthers his effort to cut ties to the past, which sometimes have inhibited YRC?s progress.

?One of the biggest hurdles for me, one of the biggest jobs ahead is to get all of these folks who either used to be a Yellow employee or used to be a Roadway employee to really start moving forward as YRC, and this is a step in that process,? he said.

He added that YRC Inc., which has trailed the company?s regional business in recovering from the recession, has been improving.

?The freight volume was pretty firm right up until Christmas, which is pretty good,? he said. ?We?ve got a lot of work to do, but I feel really good about what I?m seeing and the direction we?re going.?

David reports about health care and transportation.

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