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                                                                   EXHIBIT 24(c)




                               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 Statements and/or the Post-Effective Amendments to the Form S-8
Registration Statements for the Ryder System, Inc. Stock for Merit Increase
Replacement Plan and the Ryder System, Inc.  1995 Stock Incentive Plan 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.


                                               /s/ Edward T. Foote II
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                                                   Edward T. Foote II


STATE OF FLORIDA          )
                          ) ss:
COUNTY OF DADE            )

Before me personally appeared Edward T. Foote II, 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 15th day of June, 1995.

                                                      Lourdes Palomares
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                                                    Notary Public
                                                    My Commission Expires:
(Seal)