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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000085961-22-000098
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20220426
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20220426

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			RYDER SYSTEM INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000085961
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-AUTO RENTAL & LEASING (NO DRIVERS) [7510]
		IRS NUMBER:				590739250
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			FL
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-04364
		FILM NUMBER:		22854791

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		11690 N.W. 105TH STREET
		CITY:			MIAMI
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33178
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3055003726

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		11690 N.W. 105TH STREET
		CITY:			MIAMI
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33178
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i8bdf50e300e64a2da2f21d4a92a77771_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">UNITED STATES </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SCHEDULE 14A</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">(RULE 14a-101)</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN STATEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section&#160;14(a) of the Securities</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;)</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Filed by the Registrant</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#254;</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Filed by a Party other than the Registrant&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">o</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Check the appropriate box&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:2.841%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:44.885%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:2.841%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:45.033%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">o</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Preliminary Proxy Statement</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">o</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only <br></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">o</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Definitive Proxy Statement</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">(as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#254;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Definitive Additional Materials</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">o</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 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Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if Other Than the Registrant)</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box)&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:4.773%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:93.027%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#254;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 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Sanchez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer&#93;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Subject&#58;  Important Message to Employee Shareholders - </font><font style="color:#c0504d;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">VOTE YOUR RYDER SHARES!</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">If you own shares of Ryder stock, you should have received proxy materials for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, being held on Friday, May 6, 2022. At this meeting, our shareholders, including many of you, will vote on four proposals.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#c0504d;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">As in the past, we ask that you vote with the Board's recommendations&#58; &#34;FOR&#34; Proposals 1 &#8211; 3, and  &#34;AGAINST&#34; Proposal 4 (shareholder proposal regarding written consent).</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Your vote is important because </font><font style="color:#c0504d;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">our Board opposes Proposal 4</font><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">, which is on the ballot. Proposal 4 requests lowering the ownership threshold from 25% to 10% to permit shareholder action by written consent. As you may recall we received a nearly identical proposal last year, which a majority of our shareholders voted AGAINST at last year&#8217;s 2021 annual meeting. We continue to believe this proposal is unnecessary as Ryder&#8217;s shareholders already have the right to call a special meeting with a low threshold of 10%. In addition, this proposal could subject the Company and all shareholders to significant costs and disruption. Please refer to our proxy statement for the Board&#8217;s full statement in opposition of Proposal 4. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Note About Accessing Proxy Materials&#58;</font><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"> </font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">If you own Ryder shares that are fully vested (e.g., through your 401(k), the Employee Stock Purchase Plan or through Ryder&#8217;s Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan), you should have received a notice with instructions on how to electronically access the proxy materials and vote your shares. If you own shares through multiple accounts, you should have receive a separate notice with a 16-digit control number to vote your shares in each account. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Employees who elected to receive their account materials electronically should have received an e-mail notice in March 2022. Please make sure to check your junk folder if you do not find it in your inbox.  Depending on how you own your shares, your notice could have come from one or more of the following entities&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">RYDER SYSTEM, INC.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">FIDELITY INVESTMENTS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES (FIDELITY)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:2pt"><font style="color:#c0504d;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">REGISTRAR&#64;PROXYVOTE.COM</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Thank you for your continued support,</font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Robert Sanchez</font></div><div><font style="color:#4e4b4e;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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