February 24, 2005 Smithway Motor Xpress, Inc. 2031 Quail Avenue Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501 And East West Motor Express, Inc. 1170 JB Drive Black Hawk, South Dakota 57718 Re: Fourteenth Amendment to Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement Gentlemen:Smithway Motor Xpress Corp • March 1st, 2005 • Trucking (no local)
Smithway Motor Xpress, Inc., an Iowa corporation (“Smithway Inc.”) and East West Motor Express, Inc., a South Dakota corporation (“East West”) (Smithway Inc. and East West each a "Borrower” and collectively the “Borrowers”) and LaSalle Bank National Association, a national banking association (“Lender”) have entered into that certain Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated December 28, 2001 (the “Security Agreement”). From time to time thereafter, Borrowers and Lender may have executed various amendments (each an “Amendment” and collectively the “Amendments”) to the Security Agreement (the Security Agreement and the Amendments hereinafter are referred to, collectively, as the “Agreement”). Borrowers and Lender now desire to further amend the Agreement as provided herein, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
