U.S. Xpress Celebrates 10 Year Partnership with Wreaths Across America
December 11 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Chattanooga-Based U.S. Xpress and its Volunteer
Employees Have Transported & Laid Tens of Thousands of Wreaths
to Honor Armed Forces
This Year U.S. Xpress Assists with First
International Transport to the Netherlands American Cemetery and
Memorial
U.S. Xpress, a subsidiary of U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc.
(NYSE: USX), celebrates 10 years of partnership with Wreaths Across
America, honoring armed forces through coordinated wreath-laying
each holiday season. This year, U.S. Xpress and its employees will
again participate in National Wreaths Across America Day on
Saturday, December 14, by laying more than 6,000 wreaths on graves
at Chattanooga National Cemetery.
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Throughout the 10-year tenure, volunteer employees from U.S.
Xpress have laid tens of thousands of wreaths in Chattanooga to
honor local armed forces, and the company has transported wreaths
to cemeteries nationwide. This year, U.S. Xpress is participating
in Wreaths Across America’s first-ever international transport,
bringing wreaths to John F. Kennedy International Airport which
will eventually be delivered to the Netherlands American Cemetery
and Memorial.
“It is an honor to be able to help memorialize the soldiers who
have served our country,” said Eric Fuller, CEO of U.S. Xpress.
“Named a Military Friendly employer for three consecutive years, we
proudly support all branches of service through our 9/11 GI Bill®
Apprenticeship Program, advanced rate of pay program and
partnership with Operation Freedom Dogs. Participation in Wreaths
Across America is one more way we can show our reverence for those
who have served.”
National Wreaths Across America Day is celebrated across more
than 2,100 locations in all 50 states, including Arlington National
Cemetery. In addition to participating in transports to Tennessee
and the Netherlands, U.S. Xpress will also be delivering wreaths to
national cemeteries in Bath, N.Y. and Horseheads, N.Y.
“We are thankful to U.S. Xpress for being a valued partner for
10 years,” said Don Queeney, Director of Transportation, Wreaths
Across America. “The generous contributions of our partners is what
allows us to move the mission to communities across the country and
bring people together each December to Remember, Honor and
Teach.”
Locally in Chattanooga, U.S. Xpress employees, along with more
than a dozen area volunteer organizations, will spend the morning
unloading and distributing wreaths across Army, Marines, Navy, Air
Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and POW/MIA gravesites. The
December 14 ceremony will also include a keynote address from LTC
Anthony Miller, U.S. Army.
About U.S. Xpress:
Founded in 1985, U.S. Xpress, Inc., is a subsidiary of U.S.
Xpress Enterprises, Inc., the nation’s fifth largest asset-based
truckload carrier by revenue, providing services primarily
throughout the United States. We offer customers a broad portfolio
of services using our own truckload fleet and third-party carriers
through our non-asset-based truck brokerage network. Our modern
fleet of tractors is backed up by a team of committed professionals
whose focus lies squarely on meeting the needs of our customers and
our drivers.
About Wreaths Across America:
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill
Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission, Remember, Honor,
Teach, is carried out in part each year by coordinating
wreath-laying ceremonies each December at Arlington, as well as
hundreds of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50
states and beyond. For more information, to donate or sign up to
volunteer, please visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org.
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Lindsay Killian U.S. Xpress (423) 510-4809
lkillian@usxpress.com
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