Ryder Wins the Last Mile with 99.97% Damage-Free Delivery Rate for Abt Appliance Delivery

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2025--

Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) is the 2024 "Carrier of the Year" for Abt Electronics. Presented during Abt’s annual awards ceremony at its headquarters in Glenview, Illinois, the award recognizes Ryder Last Mile for delivering, through its qualified carrier network, more than 6,400 appliance shipments last year, with an impressive 99.97% damage-free delivery rate and 99.3% completion rate. Abt also selected Ryder for 100% alignment on core values, which put customers above all else.

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“Ryder’s responsiveness, reliability, and hands-on approach to problem-solving have made them a trusted resource in ensuring that we can service our customers outside of our home base of Chicagoland with the same care that our own drivers have been delivering since 1936,” says Gary Quinton, logistics manager at Abt. “This award celebrates that relationship and our many satisfied Abt customers.”

With RyderView TM technology, Abt customers can self-schedule and reschedule their last-mile deliveries at their convenience and easily track their orders in real-time – capabilities that, according to a recent study, 50% of all consumers now prioritize. And, for city dwellers, the importance placed on self-scheduling grows to 70%.

“When Abt turned to Ryder to help grow its e-commerce business, we leaned in to what we know about ever-evolving consumer expectations. They increasingly crave options and flexibility with deliveries, value reliability, and expect real-time visibility into their orders. RyderView gives them that,” says Joel Eigege, vice president of Ryder Last Mile for big-and-bulky goods. “We also know that satisfaction with online order delivery significantly influences whether consumers will purchase from brands again. That’s why companies like Abt rely on Ryder’s operational expertise and advanced technology solutions, so they can keep their promises to their customers.”

The Ryder Last Mile network services 100% of ZIP codes across the U.S., offering warehousing and tiered-delivery options, including white-glove service, and integrated returns management.

And, as part of Ryder’s fully integrated, port-to-door logistics capabilities, Ryder’s last mile and e-commerce solutions offer omnichannel fulfillment with two-day delivery across the entire U.S. and one-day delivery across the majority of the U.S., through a network of more than 150 sites strategically located throughout the country.

To learn more about Abt’s "Carrier of the Year" award, click here.

About Ryder System, Inc.

Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) is a fully integrated port-to-door logistics and transportation company. It provides supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions, including warehousing and distribution, contract packaging and manufacturing, e-commerce fulfillment, last-mile delivery, managed transportation, professional drivers, freight brokerage, cross-border solutions, full-service fleet leasing, maintenance, commercial truck rental, and used vehicle sales to some of the world’s most-recognized brands. Ryder provides services to businesses across more than 20 industries throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In addition, Ryder manages nearly 250,000 commercial vehicles, services fleets at approximately 760 maintenance locations, and operates nearly 300 warehouses encompassing more than 100 million square feet. Ryder is regularly recognized for its industry-leading practices; technology-driven innovations; environmental management; safety, health and security programs; and recruitment and hiring initiatives. www.ryder.com

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Ryder is the 2024 "Carrier of the Year" for Abt Electronics. Presented during Abt’s annual awards ceremony at its headquarters in Glenview, Illinois, the award recognizes Ryder Last Mile for delivering, through its qualified carrier network, an impressive 99.97% damage-free rate.

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.

The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.

The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.

The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.

The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”

The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.

Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.

The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.

On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.

Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.

“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”

Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.

Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.

“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.

Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.

Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)