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        Contacts:  Richard C. Bailey              Aubrey Baugh, III
                   Executive Vice President       Vice President of Finance
                   and Chief Financial Officer    and Administration
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         DEMPSEY BOYD TO RETIRE AFTER 45 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMPANY

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           BOYD WHIGHAM TO BECOME NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD


CLAYTON, Ala. (November 27, 2001) - Boyd Bros. Transportation Inc.
(Nasdaq/SmallCap: BOYD) today announced that its founder and Chairman of the
Board, Dempsey Boyd (age 74), intends to retire from the Company's operations at
year's end. The Board has elected Boyd Whigham (age 64) to serve as the
non-executive Chairman of the Board, commencing January 1, 2002.

         In recognition of Mr. Boyd's 45 years of dedication and leadership to
the Company, the Board of Directors has reserved for him the honorary title of
Chairman Emeritus.

         Dempsey Boyd was born and raised in Barbour County, Alabama. He began
driving trucks in 1946 and, with brothers Cecil Boyd and J. Hilly Boyd, he
founded Boyd Bros. Transportation Inc. in 1956. While his brothers left the
Company in 1965, Dempsey Boyd remained and has been an integral part of the
Company's operations ever since, leading Boyd Bros. through four decades of
successful growth to what is now a $120 million (annual sales) publicly held
company. Mr. Boyd was the Company's President from 1956 to 1980, at which time
he became Chairman of the Board. Mr. Boyd's vision helped Boyd Bros. take
advantage of the fragmentation in the flatbed trucking industry, and under his
leadership the Company has become one of the largest flatbed carriers in the
country, serving most of the continental United States.

         Boyd Whigham has been a director of the Company since 1989. He has been
the District Attorney for the Third Judicial Circuit, in Barbour and Bullock
Counties, Alabama, since 1993. Prior to 1993, he maintained a general civil law
practice in Clayton, Alabama.

         Commenting on the announced changes, Gail Cooper, the Company's Chief
Executive Officer, said, "Dempsey Boyd has been a driving force behind the
Company's growth and prosperity for almost five decades. He has been
instrumental in our efforts to build a solid corporate foundation, one supported
by energetic and experienced senior management and leading-edge systems and
processes, which we believe will allow the Company to address successfully the
challenges facing our industry. On behalf of the Board, we extend our thanks to
him for his extraordinary contribution to Boyd Bros. Transportation.


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         "At the same time, we enthusiastically welcome the increased
involvement and participation of Boyd Whigham as he assumes the role of
Chairman," she continued. "Having served as a director of the Company through
much of the past decade, including times of both opportunity and challenge, he
is uniquely qualified to lead our Board and our Company as we seek to build on
the legacy of the Dempsey Boyd era."

         Separately, the Company announced the resignation of Miller Welborn
from the Board. Welborn has served on the Company's Board of Directors since
1998. The Company has initiated a search for additional outside board members
and intends to propose candidates to stockholders at the annual meeting in 2002.

         Boyd Bros. Transportation Inc. is one of the largest flatbed trucking
companies in the United States. The Company provides transportation services to
high-volume, time-sensitive customers, primarily in the steel and building
materials industries, and operates throughout most of the continental United
States. For more information about the Company, visit Boyd Bros. on the Internet
at www.boydbros.com.

         Certain of the statements contained in this release constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among other things, business
conditions and growth in the economy, including the transportation and
construction sectors in particular; competitive factors, including price
pressures and the ability to recruit and retain qualified drivers; the ability
to control internal costs, particularly rising fuel costs that may or may not be
passed on to the Company's customers; departures and defaults by
owner-operators; the cost of complying with governmental regulations that are
applicable to the Company; the potential effects of customer bankruptcy filings
on its current and future financial and operating results; and other risk
factors referenced in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.

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