Quality Distribution Announces Extension of Exchange Offer for Outstanding 10% Senior Notes Due 2013 and 11.75% Senior Subordinated PIK Notes Due 2013


TAMPA, Fla., May 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quality Distribution, Inc. (Nasdaq:QLTY) ("Quality") and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Quality Distribution, LLC and QD Capital Corporation, announced today an extension of their previously announced exchange offer for their outstanding 10% Senior Notes due 2013 and 11.75% Senior Subordinated PIK Notes due 2013. The exchange offer was originally scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 4, 2010. However, Quality has elected to extend the offer until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 11, 2010. The full terms of the exchange offer are set forth in the prospectus dated April 7, 2010, included in the registration statement filed by Quality Distribution LLC and QD Capital Corporation and declared effective on April 7, 2010, together with this press release. The exchange offer may be further amended, extended or terminated at any time.

This press release is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration and qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any public offering of securities in the exchange offer is being made in the United States solely by means of the above-described prospectus. You may obtain these documents for free at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, a copy of the prospectus and offering materials relating to the exchange offer may be obtained by contacting, and any questions regarding the exchange offer should be directed to, Carolle Montreuil at Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Corporate Trust Operations, 101 Barclay Street – 7 East, New York, New York 10286 (Tel (212)-815-5920; Fax (212)-298-1915).

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Quality, through its subsidiaries, Quality Carriers, Inc. and Boasso America Corporation, and through its affiliates and independent owner-operators, provides bulk transportation and related services. Quality is an American Chemistry Council Responsible Care® Partner and is a core carrier for many of the Fortune 500 companies that are engaged in chemical production and processing.

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This press release may contain certain forward-looking information that is subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or projected in the forward-looking statements. Without limitation, additional risks and uncertainties regarding forward-looking statements include the effect of local and national economic, credit and capital market conditions on the economy in general, and on the particular industries in which we operate; turmoil in credit and capital markets; access to available and reasonable financing on a timely basis; availability and price of diesel fuel; adverse weather conditions; competition and rate fluctuations; our substantial leverage and restrictions contained in our debt arrangements and interest rate fluctuations in our floating rate indebtedness; the cyclical nature of the transportation industry due to various economic factors such as excess capacity in the industry; potential disruption at U.S. ports of entry; our substantial dependence on affiliates and independent owner-operators and our ability to attract and retain drivers; the loss of one or more of our major customers or a material reduction in the services we perform for such customers; our ability to effectively manage terminal operations that are converted from company-operated to affiliate; changes in future, or our inability to comply with, governmental regulations and legislative changes affecting the transportation industry; our ability to comply with current and future environmental regulations and the increasing costs relating to environmental compliance including those related to the control of greenhouse gas emissions such as market-based (cap and trade) mechanisms; our liability as a self-insurer to the extent of our deductibles, as well as our ability or inability to reduce our claims exposure through insurance due to changing conditions and pricing in the insurance marketplace; the cost of complying with existing and future anti-terrorism security measures enacted by federal, state and municipal authorities; the potential loss of our ability to use net operating losses to offset future income; increased unionization, which could increase our operating costs or constrain operating flexibility; changes in senior management; our ability to successfully manage workforce restructurings; our ability to successfully identify acquisition opportunities, consummate such acquisitions and integrate acquired businesses; potential future impairment charges; changes in planned or actual capital expenditures due to operating needs, changes in regulation, covenants in our debt arrangements and other expenses, including interest expenses; and the interests of our largest shareholder may conflict with your interests. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures, including but not limited to risk factors contained in Quality Distribution, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as well as other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Quality disclaims any obligations to update any forward-looking statement as a result of developments occurring after the date of this release.


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