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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints James M. Herron, Edward R.  Henderson and Yasmine B.
Zyne, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Ryder System, Inc. Form S-8
Registration Statement and/or the Post-Effective Amendments to the Form S-8
Registration Statements for the Ryder System, Inc.  Employee Savings Plan A and
the Ryder System, Inc. Employee Savings Plan B and any and all amendments
thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and with the
New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, and Pacific Stock Exchange,
granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said
attorney- in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue thereof.



                                        ____________________________ 
                                             James W. McLamore


STATE OF FLORIDA          )
                          ) ss:
COUNTY OF DADE            )

Before me personally appeared James W. McLamore, to me known and known to me to
be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and
acknowledged to and before me that he executed said instrument for the purposes
therein expressed.

WITNESS my hand and official seal this 22nd day of October, 1993.



                                        ____________________________ 
                                           Notary Public         
                                           My Commission Expires:

(Seal)