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Press Release For Immediate Release September 8, 2008

Con-way Freight is expanding their employee wellness program, which was initially launched at 14 facilities across 8 states, to now include an additional 52 facilities and 4,100 more employees across 13 more states. The wellness program, provided in collaboration with Wellness Coaches USA, has shown promising initial results like reduced workplace injuries and costs. It has also led to health improvements in employees like smoking cessation, weight loss, and lowered blood pressure. Based on these positive outcomes, Con-way Freight is further investing in the wellness of its 6,400 employees across 66 facilities in 21 states.

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Press Release For Immediate Release September 8, 2008

Con-way Freight is expanding their employee wellness program, which was initially launched at 14 facilities across 8 states, to now include an additional 52 facilities and 4,100 more employees across 13 more states. The wellness program, provided in collaboration with Wellness Coaches USA, has shown promising initial results like reduced workplace injuries and costs. It has also led to health improvements in employees like smoking cessation, weight loss, and lowered blood pressure. Based on these positive outcomes, Con-way Freight is further investing in the wellness of its 6,400 employees across 66 facilities in 21 states.

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


September 8, 2008

Con-way Freight Launches Major Expansion of Successful Employee Wellness Program


Program Has Boosted Employee Health and Morale, Reduced Workplace Injuries, Costs

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sept. 8, 2008 — Con-way Freight has launched a major expansion of a
successful wellness program that is improving the health and physical fitness of its employees while
reducing incidences of workplace injuries and their associated costs.

Initially rolled out at 14 company facilities across eight states, the company is expanding the initiative into
an additional 52 facilities, reaching 4,100 more employees in another 13 states. By the close of 2008, the
program, provided in collaboration with Wellness Coaches USA, will be available to a total of 6,400
employees at 66 facilities in 21 states. Con-way Freight is a subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW).

In conjunction with the program expansion, Con-way Freight is also launching a 10-week weight loss
competition titled “Choose to Lose.” Beginning today, the competition is open to employees throughout
the company’s network of more than 400 service locations. Participating employees will attend periodic
weigh-ins, with $100, $50 and $25 clothing store gift certificates to be awarded to the first-, second- and
third-place winners in each of the wellness program’s regions. There will also be an award for the service
center with the greatest participation.

Extraordinary initial results and positive employee feedback were the primary drivers behind the decision
to expand the program, in which trained health and fitness professionals provided by Wellness Coaches
USA are stationed at the company’s freight service centers.

“We’ve seen lifelong smokers quitting smoking, employees lowering chronic high blood pressure,
overweight employees shedding pounds and still others discovering and being treated for life-threatening
conditions,” said Bob Petrancosta, vice president of safety for Con-way Freight. “You can’t put a price tag
on successes like that.”

Launched in early 2007 as a pilot program at several locations, participation in the wellness initiative
quickly topped expectations, with as many as 95 percent of employees choosing to meet voluntarily —
and privately — with their on-site coach for personal health assessment screening and counseling. The
results were nearly immediate: by year-end 2007, the company saw workplace injuries and related
worker’s compensation costs decrease by 80 percent, with lost work days cut by 75 percent at the pilot
locations.

As the program has grown, so have the results, which to date have included:
• Nearly 831 employees losing a combined total of 6,269 pounds
• More than 170 employees quitting smoking
• 669 employees reducing blood pressure from hypertensive levels
• Nearly 1,470 employees improving overall health through exercise and diet regimens that
lowered blood pressure
• More than 5,300 employees attending a combined total of 74,360 one-on-one coaching sessions

The company’s 2008 wellness program expansion targets 14 geographical clusters where a single
wellness coach will serve multiple operating locations. Coaches will be covering facilities in Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,

725 Skippack Pike, Suite 300, Blue Bell, PA 19422 ● 866-894-1300 ● fax 215-628-3262 ● www.WellnessCoachesUSA.com
Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas
and Wisconsin.

At Con-way Freight, Wellness Coaches USA coaches have integrated seamlessly into the company’s
structure and culture. They begin at each operating location by offering initial health risk assessments
along with biometric testing including blood pressure and body composition evaluations. Employees may
then choose to participate in one-on-one health-risk coaching to address issues uncovered by the testing.
In addition, coaches develop and promote wellness programming such as walking, weight loss and
smoking cessation contests, health fairs and informational displays. They also assist with company-wide
efforts like a video-based injury-prevention stretching program launched at every company location in
early April.

“Con-way Freight made a commitment to the health of its employees and collaborated with us to deliver a
program that produced results,” said Gene McGuire, chief marketing officer for Wellness Coaches USA.
“The company proved that by providing resources, guidance and information, it could transform the lives
of its employees both at work and at home. With the tremendous results we have already seen, we are
thrilled to take our relationship with Con-way Freight to the next level.”

About Con-way Freight


Con-way Freight is the industry’s leading less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation company,
providing guaranteed, day-definite regional and transcontinental service through a network of more than
400 operating locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Based in Ann Arbor,
Mich., Con-way Freight offers LTL freight delivery across North America, as well as delivery in the United
States for international less-than-container (LCL) ocean shipments from Asia through its
OceanGuaranteedSM service. Con-way Freight is a certified FAST highway carrier and is ISO 9001- and
14001-, C-TPAT/PIP, ACE- and CSA-certified.

Con-way Freight is a subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW), a $4.7 billion freight transportation and
logistics services company. For more information, visit www.con-way.com/freight.

725 Skippack Pike, Suite 300, Blue Bell, PA 19422 ● 866-894-1300 ● fax 215-628-3262 ● www.WellnessCoachesUSA.com

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