Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 


 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

February 10, 2006 (January 27, 2006)

 


 

QUALITY DISTRIBUTION, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Florida   000-24180   59-3239073

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

3802 Corporex Park Drive

Tampa, Florida 33619

(Address of principal executive offices including Zip Code)

 

(813) 630-5826

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

N.A.

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 


 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

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¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 



Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

On January 27, 2006, Quality Distribution, Inc. (“Quality”) made a special one-time payment to its executive officers and substantially all of its non-represented employees to acknowledge prior efforts made by these persons to improve Quality’s performance. The payments, in an aggregate amount of approximately $600,000, were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Quality. A portion of these payments were made to Quality’s executive officers in the following amounts:

 

Dennis Copeland    $  23,739
Gary R. Enzor      46,125
Virgil T. Leslie      27,122
Robert J. Millstone      27,060
Timothy B. Page      34,440

 

Gerald L. Detter, Quality’s Chief Executive Officer, by agreement with the Compensation Committee, declined to participate.

 

No payments will be made under the 2005 Compensation Bonus Plan in which most executives of Quality, including the executive officers, participated as target levels were not reached under that plan.


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    QUALITY DISTRIBUTION, INC.
    (Registrant)
Dated: February 10, 2006   By:  

/s/ Gerald L. Detter


    Name:   Gerald L. Detter
    Title:   Chief Executive Officer

 

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