Jun 6, 2006 9:12 AM, from staff and wire reports

Sherwood Food Distributors, a privately held national distributor of fresh and frozen meat, poultry, and deli products, has renewed its contract and expanded its fleet through Ryder System Inc’s Full Service Lease (FSL) product offering.

Under the multi-year contract, Ryder supports Sherwood’s transportation operations with a full-service lease system providing a combined fleet of more than 250 power units and refrigerated trailers. Ryder also provides contract maintenance services for refrigerated trailers owned by Sherwood. Ryder performs maintenance services for the leased fleet and for Sherwood’s trailers on site at Sherwood’s locations in Detroit MI and Maple Heights OH.