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Company: Roadway Express, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Yellow Corporation
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Penalty: $65,000
Year: 2006
Date: August 1, 2006
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: violated Arizona Hazardous Waste Management Act. 09/17/04 hub facility in Phoenix caught fire when hazardous waste illegally stored in the trailer spontaneously combusted. A second tractor trailer also caught fire during the incident. Fire extinguishers were stored inside the tractor trailers and were therefore not available for use when the fire started.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Arizona
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Tennessee
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: freight and logistics
Specific Industry of Current Parent: trucking services
Source of Data: Contained in data received from the agency on November 10, 2020 in response to an open records request.
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.