YRC execs: Distractions, disappointments — but far from despair

YRC Worldwide Inc. was preoccupied in the first quarter, the company's top executives said Thursday. During the company's quarterly conference call, CEO James Welch and CFO Jamie Pierson said the distractions generated by a lengthy effort to refinance the Overland Park-based less-than-truckload carrier's (Nasdaq: YRCW) debts — which included a pair of votes by the company's employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — and unusually poor winter weather led to net losses at the company...