EX-3.19 10 dex319.htm CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF USF SALES CORPORATION Certificate of Incorporation of USF Sales Corporation

Exhibit 3.19

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

TNT FREIGHTWAYS SALES CORPORATION

The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of organizing a corporation for conducting the business and promoting the purposes hereinafter stated, under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the laws of the State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified and referred to as the “General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware”), hereby certifies that:

FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) is: TNT Freightways Sales Corporation.

SECOND: The address including street, number, city, and county, of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 32 Loockerman Square, Suite L-100, Kent County, Dover, Delaware 19901; and the name of the registered agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000), all of which are $1.00 par value. All such shares are of one class and are shares of Common Stock.

FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:

 

Name

  

Mailing Address

B. Carlton Bailey, Jr.    9700 Higgins Road, Suite 570
   Rosemont, Illinois 60018

SIXTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

SEVENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the


stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors and/or stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and in further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and of its stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:

1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of directors shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the By-Laws. The phrase “whole Board” and the phrase “total number of directors” shall be deemed to have the same meaning, to wit, the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies. No election of directors need be by written ballot.

2. After the original or other By-Laws of the Corporation have been adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of Section 109 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and after the Corporation has received any payment for any of its stock, the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation may be exercised by the Board of Directors of the Corporation; provided, however, that any provision for the classification of directors of the Corporation for staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) of Section 141 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall be set forth in an initial By-Law or in a By-Law adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote unless provisions for such classifications shall be set forth in this Certificate of Incorporation.

3. Whenever the Corporation shall be authorized to issue only one class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder thereof to notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of stockholders. Whenever the Corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock, no outstanding share of any class of stock which is denied voting power under the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation shall entitle the holder thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require; provided, that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in the number of authorized shares of said class.


NINTH: The personal liability of the directors of the Corporation is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented.

TENTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any By-Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by this Certificate of Incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this article ELEVENTH.

Signed on December 20, 1991.

 

/s/ B. Carlton Bailey, Jr.

B. Carlton Bailey, Jr.

Incorporator


CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT

AND

REGISTERED OFFICE

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TNT FREIGHTWAYS SALES CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

The present registered agent of the corporation is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System and the present registered office of the corporation is in the county of Kent:

The Board of Directors of TNT FREIGHTWAYS SALES CORPORATION adopted the following resolution on the 1st day of May, 1994.

Resolved, that the registered office of TNT FREIGHTWAYS SALES CORPORATION in the state of Delaware be and it hereby is changed to Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, and the authorization of the present registered agent of this corporation be and the same is hereby withdrawn, and THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, shall be and is hereby constituted and appointed the registered agent of this corporation at the address of its registered office.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, TNT FREIGHTWAYS SALES CORPORATION has caused this statement to be signed by Thomas Lilly, its Vice President and attested by B. Carlton Bailey, jr., its Secretary this 1st day of May 1994.

 

By  

/s/ Thomas Lilly

  Thomas Lilly, Vice President

 

ATTEST:
By  

/s/ B. Carlton Bailey, Jr.

  B. Carlton Bailey, Jr. Secretary


CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

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TNT Freightways Sales Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,

DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

 

FIRST:  

That the Board of Directors of said corporation, by the unanimous written consent of its members, filed with the minutes of the Board, adopted a resolution proposing and declaring advisable the following amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation:

 

RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of TNT Freightways Sales Corporation be amended by changing the First Article thereof so that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as follows:

 

The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “corporation”) is USF Sales Corporation.

SECOND:   That in lieu of a meeting and vote of stockholders, the stockholders have given unanimous written consent to said amendment in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.


THIRD:   That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said TNT Freightways Sales Corporation has caused this certificate to be signed by C. L. Ellis, its Vice President, this Twelfth day of February, 1996.

 

  TNT Freightways Sales
  Corporation
By  

/s/ C. L. Ellis

  Vice President