YRC Worldwide Cuts 2013 Loss To $83.6 Billion!
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With a new five-year labor contract in place and five years until long-term debt comes due, YRC Worldwide is prepared to focus on improving service, lowering cost and balancing the network at struggling long-haul subsidiary YRC Freight.
As of today, YRC Freight has a new president, Darren Hawkins, formerly senior vice president of sales and marketing. The company also will get new dimensional scanning equipment to help price freight more accurately and much needed new trucks this year.
YRC Worldwide, the fourth-largest U.S. trucking operator, scraped through 2013, increasing annual revenue by less than 1 percent to $4.87 billion as it dropped its net loss by 39 percent to $83.6 million, compared with a $136.5 million net loss in 2012.
Last year was the seventh straight year of net losses for YRC Worldwide. Combined, the less-than-truckload operator’s annual losses since 2007 total $3.1 billion. However, YRC Worldwide also reported its second consecutive annual operating profit — $28.4 million — following a $24.1 million operating profit in 2012.
In the fourth quarter, YRC Worldwide increased revenue 3.3 percent to $1.21 billion and reported an operating loss of $1.6 million, compared with a $30 million operating profit a year ago. Thanks to $39 billion in tax benefits, however, the holding company managed to eke out a $400,000 net profit in the quarter...