At the time, Roadway Express contributed over 40% of the parent company's US$5 billion annual revenue but was less profitable than the other trucking units. The strike at Roadway Express highlighted the division's profitability imbalance when compared to RSI's non-union carriers. In the end, the strike lasted 24 days and, according to the RSI, resulted in losses of US$68 million for the quarter at Roadway Express. The strike was the result of a breakdown in negotiations between the Teamsters and Trucking Management Inc., a negotiating group which represented 23 large trucking companies including Roadway Express, Consolidated Freightways, and Yellow Freight. While RSI's smaller regional carriers were all non-union, Roadway Express was unionized and in April 1994 it was impacted by a nationwide strike of the Teamsters Union. At the time, RSI was the third-largest motor freight carrier in the US. At the same time Roadway Express continued its expansion with services to Europe in 1991 and a number of Pacific Rim ports soon after. In 1990, Viking subsidiary VFS Transportation was closed and Spartan was absorbed into Viking, operating as a subsidiary. In the late 1980s and early 1990s RSI experienced both expansion and contraction as it acquired the largest western US regional carrier, Viking Freight, but closed the unprofitable Nationwide Carriers in 1989. By 1988, RPS covered 70% of the US from 130 terminals. RPS was intended to out-compete the package delivery services of UPS by structuring itself for lower costs. With both truckload and LTL services available via its subsidiaries, in 1985 RSI founded a package delivery service, Roadway Package System (RPS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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