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April 11, 2000 9:40 AM, EDT

Roadway Express has until April 12 to tell a federal appeals court why it should not have to turn over employment records to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a case involving charges that the company refuses to promote blacks or hire women.

The federal agency is investigating claims that nation’s largest long-haul trucking company has established a pattern of not promoting blacks into upper-level management or hiring women as truck drivers. Oral arguments before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati could be scheduled as early as this summer, unless the court decides the case on the briefs that have already been submitted.

The carrier, based Akron, Ohio, filed the appeal after a federal district court in Cleveland told the freight carrier on Dec. 15 to turn over personnel records, which the EEOC asserts it needs in the six-year-old investigation.

The employment commission demanded records showing the race and gender of those holding sales, driver, laborer and upper-level management positions.

For the full story, see the Apr. 10 print edition of Transport Topics. .