SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ---------- FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): AUGUST 13, 2002 ROADWAY CORPORATION (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) DELAWARE 000-32821 34-1956254 (State or Other Jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer of Incorporation) File Number) Identification No.) 1077 GORGE BOULEVARD, AKRON, OHIO 44310 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (330) 384-1717 ITEM 9. REGULATION FD DISCLOSURE On August 13, 2002, pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Order No. 4-460, each of Michael W. Wickham, who as Chief Executive Officer of Roadway Corporation (the "Company"), serves as the principal executive officer of the Company, and J. Dawson Cunningham, who as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, serves as the principal financial officer of the Company, stated and attested as follows: (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Roadway Corporation, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report: - no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and - no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed). (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee. (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report": - Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001 of Roadway Corporation; - all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Roadway Corporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and - any amendments to any of the foregoing. SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized. ROADWAY CORPORATION By: /s/ John J. Gasparovic ------------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gasparovic Title: Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary Date: August 13, 2002