Document:

Underwriting Agreement among Old Dominion Freight Line

 Exhibit 10.17.5 
  
 2,440,000 Shares 
  
 OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC. 
  
 Common Stock 
  
 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT 
  
 July 20, 2004 
  
 LEGG
MASON WOOD WALKER, INCORPORATED 
 BB&T CAPITAL MARKETS,
A DIVISION OF SCOTT & STRINGFELLOW, INC. 
 STEPHENS INC. 
  
     As Representatives of the Several Underwriters, 
 c/o Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated 
 100 Light Street 
 Baltimore, Maryland 21202

  
 Dear Sirs: 
  
 1. Introductory. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., a Virginia corporation (“Company”) proposes to
issue and sell 370,000 shares of its Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share (“Securities”), and the shareholders listed in Schedule A hereto (“Selling Shareholders”) propose severally to sell an aggregate of
2,070,000 outstanding shares of the Securities (such 2,440,000 shares of Securities being hereinafter referred to as the “Firm Securities”). The Company also proposes to sell to the Underwriters, at the option of the Underwriters,
an aggregate of not more than 366,000 additional shares of its Securities, as set forth below (such additional shares being hereinafter referred to as the “Optional Securities”). The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are
herein collectively called the “Offered Securities”. The Company and the Selling Shareholders hereby agree with the several Underwriters named in Schedule B hereto (“Underwriters”) as follows: 
  
 2. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Selling
Shareholders. (a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the several Underwriters that: 
  
 (i) A registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-116399) relating to the Offered Securities, including a form of prospectus, has been
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) and either (A) has been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Act”) and is not proposed to be amended or (B) is proposed to be amended
by amendment or post-effective amendment. If such registration statement (the “initial registration statement”) has been declared effective, either (A) an additional registration statement (the “additional registration
statement”) relating to the Offered Securities may have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) (“Rule 462(b)”) under the Act and, if so filed, has become effective upon filing pursuant to such Rule and the
Offered Securities all have been duly registered under the Act pursuant to the initial registration statement and, if applicable, the additional registration statement or (B) such an additional registration statement is proposed to be filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) and will become effective upon filing pursuant to such Rule and upon such filing the Offered Securities will all have been duly registered under the Act pursuant to the initial registration statement and such
additional registration statement. If the Company does not propose to amend the initial registration statement or if an additional registration statement has been filed and the Company does not propose to amend it, and if any post-effective
amendment to either such registration statement has been filed with the Commission prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the most recent amendment (if any) to each such registration statement has been 

 declared effective by the Commission or has become effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(c)
(“Rule 462(c)”) under the Act or, in the case of the additional registration statement, Rule 462(b). For purposes of this Agreement, “Effective Time” with respect to the initial registration statement or, if
filed prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the additional registration statement means (A) if the Company has advised the Representatives that it does not propose to amend such registration statement, the date and time as of which
such registration statement, or the most recent post-effective amendment thereto (if any) filed prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, was declared effective by the Commission or has become effective upon filing pursuant to Rule
462(c), or (B) if the Company has advised the Representatives that it proposes to file an amendment or post-effective amendment to such registration statement, the date and time as of which such registration statement, as amended by such amendment
or post-effective amendment, as the case may be, is declared effective by the Commission. If an additional registration statement has not been filed prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement but the Company has advised the
Representatives that it proposes to file one, “Effective Time” with respect to such additional registration statement means the date and time as of which such registration statement is filed and becomes effective pursuant to Rule
462(b). “Effective Date” with respect to the initial registration statement or the additional registration statement (if any) means the date of the Effective Time thereof. The initial registration statement, as amended at its
Effective Time, including all material incorporated by reference therein, including all information contained in the additional registration statement (if any) and deemed to be a part of the initial registration statement as of the Effective Time of
the additional registration statement pursuant to the General Instructions of the Form on which it is filed and including all information (if any) deemed to be a part of the initial registration statement as of its Effective Time pursuant to Rule
430A(b) (“Rule 430A(b)”) under the Act, is hereinafter referred to as the “Initial Registration Statement”. The additional registration statement, as amended at its Effective Time, including the contents of the
initial registration statement incorporated by reference therein and including all information (if any) deemed to be a part of the additional registration statement as of its Effective Time pursuant to Rule 430A(b), is hereinafter referred to as the
“Additional Registration Statement”. The Initial Registration Statement and the Additional Registration Statement are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Registration Statements” and individually as a
“Registration Statement”. The form of prospectus relating to the Offered Securities, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b) (“Rule 424(b)”) under the Act or (if no such
filing is required) as included in a Registration Statement, including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus, is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus”. No document has been or will be prepared or
distributed in reliance on Rule 434 under the Act. 
  
 (ii) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement: (A) on the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement, the Initial Registration Statement conformed in all
material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission (“Rules and Regulations”) and did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (B) on the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement (if any), each Registration Statement conformed or will conform, in all material respects to the
requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not include, or will not include, any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit, or will not omit, to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, and (C) on the date of this Agreement, the Initial Registration Statement and, if the Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the
Additional Registration Statement each conforms, and at the time of filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (if no such filing is required) at the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement in which the Prospectus is
included, each Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, and neither of such documents includes, or will include, any untrue statement of a material
fact or omits, or will omit, to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is subsequent to the execution and delivery
of this Agreement: on the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement, the Initial Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, neither of such
documents will include any untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and no Additional Registration Statement 
  

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 has been or will be filed. The two preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from a
Registration Statement or the Prospectus based upon written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information is that
described as such in Section 7(c) hereof. 
  
 (iii) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”) and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents are filed with Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and
the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. 

 
 (iv) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an
existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to
do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), business, properties, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole (“Material Adverse
Effect”). 
  
 (v) Each subsidiary of the
Company (the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties
and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and each of the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of
its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each of the Subsidiaries are owned,
directly or indirectly, by the Company, have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and, except as disclosed in the Prospectus, are free from liens, encumbrances and defects. Other than its ownership of each of
the Subsidiaries, the Company does not own or control, either directly or indirectly, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity. 
  
 (vi) The Offered Securities and all other outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly
authorized; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and when the Offered Securities are delivered and paid for in accordance with this Agreement on each Closing Date (as defined below), such Offered Securities will be, validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus; and the shareholders of the Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Securities. 
  
 (vii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no
contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this
offering. 
  
 (viii) There are no contracts,
agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or
to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to a Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act. 
  

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 (ix) No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing with, any governmental
agency or body or any court is required to be obtained or made by the Company for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities, except such as have been obtained and made
under the Act and such as may be required under state securities laws or the by-laws or rules and regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”). 
  
 (x) The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not (i) result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under (a) any statute, rule, regulation or order of any governmental
agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties, (b) any agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of such Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, or (c) the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) result in the creation or imposition
of any lien, charge, claim or encumbrance upon any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except where a breach, violation or default of the type specified in clauses (i)(a) and (i)(b) above and the liens, charges, claims or
encumbrances described in clause (ii) above would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has full power and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Offered Securities as contemplated by this Agreement.

  
 (xi) This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company. 
  
 (xii)
Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects that
would materially affect the value thereof or materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them; and except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries hold all leased real or personal property under
valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions that would materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them. 
  
 (xiii) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries possess such certificates, authorities, licenses or permits issued by appropriate
governmental agencies or bodies (“Permits”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, except for such failures to have Permits that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Permit that, if determined adversely to the Company or each of its Subsidiaries, would individually or in the
aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of their obligations with respect to such Permits, and no event or change in condition has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of
time or both would allow, revocation or termination thereof or result in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit, except as to such qualifications as are set forth in the Prospectus and except for such failures, events,
or changes which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (xiv) No labor dispute, strike, slowdown, picketing, or work stoppage, and to the Company’s knowledge no organizing effort, relating
to the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent which would result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (xv) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate trademarks, trade names and other
rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information and other intellectual property (collectively, “intellectual property rights”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, or presently
employed by them, and have not received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any intellectual property rights that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, would
individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (xvi) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court,
domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the 
  

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 protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances
(collectively, “environmental laws”), owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any environmental laws, is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any environmental
laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the aggregate have Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending investigation
which might lead to such a claim. 
  
 (xvii)
Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or affecting the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context
of the sale of the Offered Securities; and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened orcontemplated. 
  
 (xviii) Ernst & Young LLP, who has audited certain of the financial statements filed with the Commission as part of or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Act and the Rules and Regulations. The financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and such financial statements have
been prepared in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States applied on a consistent basis (“GAAP”); and the as adjusted columns therein reflect the proper application of those adjustments to
the corresponding historical financial statement amounts. 
  
 (xix) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a
prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (i) except in the ordinary course of business, the Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, nor entered into any material transaction;
and (ii) the Company has not purchased any of its outstanding capital stock, nor declared, paid or otherwise made any dividend or distribution of any kind on its capital stock other than ordinary and customary dividends. 
  
 (xx) The Company is subject to the reporting requirements of
either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and files reports with the Commission on the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. The Company and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement meet the
requirements and comply with the conditions of the Rules and Regulations and the Act to the use of a Registration Statement on Form S-3. 
  
 (xxi) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds
thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940. 
  
 (xxii) Except as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect: (A) all federal, state and local Tax Returns required to be filed by the
Company have been timely filed; (B) the Company has timely paid all amounts due in respect of Taxes (whether or not shown on any Tax Return), or has otherwise set up reserves in accordance with GAAP in respect of all Taxes for any periods not fully
determined and such reserves are reasonable; (C) there are no pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, actions or proceedings for the assessment or collection of Taxes against the Company, and, to the Company’s knowledge, no
authority intends to assess any additional Taxes for any period for which Tax Returns have been filed; (D) the Company is not currently the beneficiary of any extension of time within which to file any Tax Return; (E) during the past five (5) years,
no claim has ever been made by an authority in a jurisdiction where the Company does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction; (F) the Company has withheld and paid all Taxes required to have been withheld
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 contractor, creditor, shareholder, or other third party; and (G) the Company has not waived any statute
of limitations in respect of Taxes or agreed to any extension of time with respect to a Tax assessment or deficiency. For the purposes of the foregoing, (x) “Tax” or “Taxes” means any federal, state, local, or
foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits, environmental (including taxes under Internal Revenue Code section 59A), customs duties, capital stock, franchise,
profits, withholding, social security (or similar), unemployment, disability, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, registration, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated, or other tax of any kind whatsoever, including
any interest, penalty, or addition thereto, whether disputed or not, and including any obligation to indemnify or otherwise assume or succeed to the Tax liability of another person and (y) “Tax Return” means any return, declaration,
report, claim for refund, or information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof. 
  
 (xxiii) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all
presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”); neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
currently has and at no time in the past has had an obligation to contribute to a “defined benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA, a pension plan subject to the funding standards of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”), a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or Section 414(f) of the Code or a
“multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 210(a) of ERISA or Section 413(c) of the Code; and each “pension plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) for which the Company or any Subsidiary would have any liability
that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification. 

	

  
 (xxiv) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) material information relating to the Company, including its Subsidiaries, is made known to the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, (ii) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iii) transactions are recorded as
necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (iv) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorization; and (v) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of
the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls that could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process,
summarize, and report financial data; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls. 
  
 (b) Each Selling Shareholder severally represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the several Underwriters that:

  
 (i) This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Selling Shareholder. 
  
 (ii) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required to be obtained or made by the Selling Shareholder for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the Custody Agreement in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities sold by the Selling Shareholder, except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be required under state securities laws or the by-laws
or rules and regulations of the NASD. 
  
 (iii)
The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Custody Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or
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 to the Selling Shareholder or to transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement or the Custody
Agreement any order of any governmental agency or body or any court having jurisdiction over the Selling Shareholder or any of his, her, or its properties, or (B) any agreement or instrument to which the Selling Shareholder is a party or by which
the Selling Shareholder is bound or to which any of the properties of the Selling Shareholder is subject, including any trust agreement. 
  
 (iv) Such Selling Shareholder has and on each Closing Date hereinafter mentioned will have valid and unencumbered title to the Offered
Securities to be delivered by such Selling Shareholder on such Closing Date and full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Offered Securities to be delivered by such Selling Shareholder
on such Closing Date hereunder; and upon the delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities on each Closing Date hereunder the several Underwriters will acquire valid and unencumbered title to the Offered Securities to be delivered by such
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 (v) Such Selling Shareholder has reviewed and is familiar with the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and (i) has no knowledge of any information with regard to the Company or the Subsidiaries which (A) is not disclosed in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and (B) concerns an event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) has no knowledge of any misstatement of a material fact or failure to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements in the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (iii) is not prompted to sell the Firm Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder by any material
information concerning the Company or any Subsidiary which is not set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. 
  
 (vi) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between such Selling Shareholder and any
person that would give rise to a valid claim against such Selling Shareholder or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering. 
  
 3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of
the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and each Selling Shareholder agree, severally and not jointly, to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter
agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each Selling Shareholder, at a purchase price of $27.29 per share, that number of Firm Securities (rounded up or down, as determined by Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated
(“Legg Mason”) in its discretion, in order to avoid fractions) obtained by multiplying 370,000 Firm Securities in the case of the Company and the number of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Selling Shareholder in
Schedule A hereto, in the case of a Selling Shareholder, in each case by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule B hereto and the denominator of which is the
total number of Firm Securities. 
  
 Certificates in negotiable
form for the Offered Securities to be sold by the Selling Shareholders hereunder have been placed in custody, for delivery under this Agreement, under Custody Agreements made with American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as custodian
(“Custodian”). Each Selling Shareholder agrees that the shares represented by the certificates held in custody for the Selling Shareholders under such Custody Agreements are subject to the interests of the Underwriters hereunder,
that the arrangements made by the Selling Shareholders for such custody are to that extent irrevocable, and that the obligations of the Selling Shareholders hereunder shall not be terminated by operation of law, whether by the death of any
individual Selling Shareholder or the occurrence of any other event, or in the case of a trust, by the death of any trustee or trustees or the termination of such trust. If any individual Selling Shareholder or any such trustee or trustees should
die, or if any other such event should occur, or if any of such trusts should terminate, before the delivery of the Offered Securities hereunder, certificates for such Offered Securities shall be delivered by the Custodian in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement as if such death or other event or termination had not occurred, regardless of whether or not the Custodian shall have received notice of such death or other event or termination. 
  

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 The Company and the Custodian will deliver the Firm Securities to the Representatives through the
facilities of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct, for the accounts of the Underwriters, against payment of the purchase price in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an
account or accounts at a bank or banks designated by the Company or a Selling Shareholder and reasonably acceptable to Legg Mason drawn to the order of Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. in the case of 370,000 shares of Firm Securities and the
shareholders listed on Schedule A hereto in the case of an aggregate of 2,070,000 shares of Firm Securities, at the office of Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O., 411 S. 13th Street, Suite 200, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508, at 9:00 A.M., Baltimore time, on July 26, 2004, or at such other time not later than seven full business days
thereafter as Legg Mason and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the “First Closing Date”. For purposes of Rule 15c6-1 under the Exchange Act, the First Closing Date (if later than the otherwise applicable
settlement date) shall be the settlement date for payment of funds and delivery of securities for all the Offered Securities sold pursuant to the offering. The certificates for the Firm Securities so to be delivered will be in definitive or
book-entry form, in such denominations and registered in such names as Legg Mason requests and will be made available for checking and packaging at the office of DTC or its designated custodian, unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct,
at least 24 hours prior to the First Closing Date. 
  
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addition, upon written notice from Legg Mason given to the Company from time to time not more than 30 days subsequent to the date of the Prospectus, the Underwriters may purchase all or less than all of the Optional Securities at the purchase price
per Security to be paid for the Firm Securities. The Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters the number of Optional Securities specified in such notice, and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase such Optional Securities.
Such Optional Securities shall be purchased for the account of each Underwriter in the same proportion as the number of Firm Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name bears to the total number of Firm Securities (subject to
adjustment by Legg Mason to eliminate fractions) and may be purchased by the Underwriters only for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in connection with the sale of the Firm Securities. No Optional Securities shall be sold or delivered
unless the Firm Securities previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and delivered. The right to purchase the Optional Securities or any portion thereof may be exercised from time to time and to the extent not previously exercised may be
surrendered and terminated at any time upon notice by Legg Mason to the Company. 
  
 Each time for the delivery of and payment for the Optional Securities, being herein referred to as an “Optional Closing Date”, which may be the First Closing Date (the First Closing Date and each
Optional Closing Date, if any, being sometimes referred to as a “Closing Date”), shall be determined by Legg Mason but shall be not later than five full business days after written notice of election to purchase Optional Securities
is given. The Company and the Custodian will deliver the Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date to the Representatives, through the facilities of DTC unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct, for the accounts of
the several Underwriters, against payment of the purchase price therefor in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account or accounts at a bank or banks designated by the Company and reasonably acceptable to Legg Mason drawn to the order
of Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., at the above office of Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O. The certificates for the Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date will be in definitive or book-entry form, in such denominations and
registered in such names as Legg Mason requests upon reasonable notice prior to such Optional Closing Date and will be made available for checking and packaging at the above office of DTC or its designated custodian, unless the Representatives shall
otherwise instruct at a reasonable time in advance of such Optional Closing Date. 
  
 4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Offered Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Prospectus. 
  
 5. Certain Agreements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders. The
Company and the Selling Shareholders agree with the several Underwriters and, as applicable, the Company agrees with the Selling Shareholders that: 
  
 (a) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company will
file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with subparagraph (1) (or, if applicable and if consented to by Legg Mason, subparagraph (4)) of Rule 424(b) not 
  

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 later than the earlier of (A) the second business day following the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or (B) the fifteenth business day after the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement. 
  
 The Company will advise Legg Mason promptly of any such filing pursuant to Rule 424(b). If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and an additional registration statement is necessary to register a portion of the Offered Securities under the Act but the Effective Time thereof has not occurred as of such execution and
delivery, the Company will file the additional registration statement or, if filed, will file a post-effective amendment thereto with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 462(b) on or prior to 10:00 P.M., Baltimore time, on the
date of this Agreement or, if earlier, on or prior to the time the Prospectus is printed and distributed to any Underwriter, or will make such filing at such later date as shall have been consented to by Legg Mason. 
  
 (b) The Company will advise Legg Mason promptly of any
proposal to amend or supplement the initial or any additional registration statement as filed or the related prospectus or the Initial Registration Statement, the Additional Registration Statement (if any) or the Prospectus and will not effect such
amendment or supplementation without the consent of Legg Mason; and the Company will also advise Legg Mason promptly of the effectiveness of each Registration Statement (if its Effective Time is subsequent to the execution and delivery of this
Agreement) and of any amendment or supplementation of a Registration Statement or the Prospectus and of the institution by the Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of a Registration Statement and will use its best efforts to prevent
the issuance of any such stop order and to obtain as soon as possible its lifting, if issued. 
  
 (c) If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities is required to be delivered under the Act in connection with
sales by any Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify Legg Mason and the Selling Shareholders of such
event and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at its own expense, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance. Neither the consent of Legg Mason to, nor
the Underwriters’ delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 6. 
  
 (d) As soon as practicable, but not later than the Availability Date (as defined below), the Company will make generally available to its
securityholders an earnings statement covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement (or, if later, the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement) which will satisfy the
provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “Availability Date” means the 45th day after the end of the fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes such Effective Date,
except that, if such fourth fiscal quarter is the last quarter of the Company’s fiscal year, “Availability Date” means the 90th day after the end of such fourth fiscal quarter. 
  
 (e) The Company will furnish to the Representatives copies
of each Registration Statement one (1) of which will be signed and will include all exhibits), each related preliminary prospectus, and, so long as a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities is required to be delivered under the Act in
connection with sales by any Underwriter or dealer, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case in such quantities as Legg Mason reasonably requests. The Prospectus shall be so furnished on or prior to 3:00
P.M., Baltimore time, on the business day following the later of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement. All other such documents shall be so furnished as soon as available. The
Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the Underwriters all such documents. 
  
 (f) The Company will arrange for the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as Legg Mason
designates and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution. 
  

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 (g) For a period of 90 days after the date of the public offering of the Offered
Securities, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to, any additional shares of its Securities or
securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any shares of its Securities, or publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing, without the prior written consent of Legg Mason except
issuances of Securities pursuant to the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities or the exercise of warrants or options, in each case outstanding on the date hereof, grants of stock options pursuant to the terms of a plan in
effect on the date hereof or issuances of Securities pursuant to the exercise of such options, issuances of Securities in an acquisition transaction, or the filing of registration statements on Form S-8 relating to benefit plans or on Form S-4
relating to a business combination transaction under Rule 145 of the Act. 
  
 (h) The Company agrees with the several Underwriters and the Selling Shareholders that the Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling Shareholders under
this Agreement, for any filing fees and other expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) in connection with qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as Legg Mason designates and the printing
of memoranda relating thereto, for the filing fee incident to the review by the NASD of the Offered Securities, for any travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company in connection with attending
or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities, for any transfer taxes on the sale by the Selling Shareholders of the Offered Securities to the Underwriters and for expenses incurred in distributing preliminary
prospectuses and the Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) to the Underwriters. 
  
 (i) Each Selling Shareholder agrees, for a period of 90 days after the date of the public offering of the Offered Securities, not to
offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge (other than pledges of Securities as security for personal or business loans) or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any additional shares of the Securities of the Company or securities convertible
into or exchangeable or exercisable for any shares of Securities, enter into a transaction which would have the same effect, or enter into any swap, hedge or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of
ownership of the Securities, whether any such aforementioned transaction is to be settled by delivery of the Securities or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, or publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge or
disposition, or enter into any such transaction, swap, hedge or other arrangement, without, in each case, the prior written consent of Legg Mason. 
  
 6. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Securities on
the First Closing Date and the Optional Securities to be purchased on each Optional Closing Date will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Selling Shareholders herein, to the accuracy of
the statements of Company officers made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of their obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent: 
  
 (a) The Representatives shall have received a letter, dated
the date of delivery thereof (which, if the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, shall be on or prior to the date of this Agreement or, if the Effective Time of the Initial
Registration Statement is subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, shall be prior to the filing of the amendment or post-effective amendment to the registration statement to be filed shortly prior to such Effective Time), of Ernst
& Young LLP confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published Rules and Regulations thereunder and stating to the effect that: 
  
 (i) in their opinion the financial statements as of December
31, 2003 and 2002and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, examined by them and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable
accounting requirements of the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations; 
  

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 (ii) they have performed the procedures specified by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants for a review of interim financial information as described in Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 100, Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited financial statements as of and for the three month period ended March 31,
2004, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements, and a review of the interim financial information as described in SAS No. 100, Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited financial statements as of and for such
periods included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements; 
  
 (iii) on the basis of the review referred to in clause (ii) above, a reading of the latest available interim financial statements of the Company, inquiries of officials of the Company who have responsibility for
financial and accounting matters and other specified procedures, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that: 
  
 (A) the unaudited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements do not comply as to form in
all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations or any material modifications should be made to such unaudited financial statements for them to be in conformity with GAAP;

  
 (B) at the date of the latest available
balance sheet read by such accountants, or at a subsequent specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of this Agreement, there was any change in the capital stock or any increase in short-term indebtedness or long-term debt
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries or, at the date of the latest available balance sheet read by such accountants, there was any decrease in consolidated net current assets or net assets, as compared with amounts shown on the latest
balance sheet included in the Prospectus; or 
  
 (C) for the period from the closing date of the latest income statement included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus to the closing date of the latest available income statement read by such accountants there were any decreases,
as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year and with the period of corresponding length ended the date of the latest income statement included in the Prospectus, in consolidated net operating revenues or in the total or per share
amounts of consolidated net income; 
  
 except in all cases set
forth in clauses (B) and (C) above for changes, increases or decreases which the Prospectus discloses have occurred or may occur or which are described in such letter; 
  
 (iv) they have compared specified dollar amounts (or percentages derived from such dollar amounts) and other
financial information contained in the Registration Statements (in each case to the extent that such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information are derived from the general accounting records of the Company and its Subsidiaries
subject to the internal controls of the Company’s accounting system or are derived directly from such records by analysis or computation) with the results obtained from inquiries, a reading of such general accounting records and other
procedures specified in such letter and have found such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information to be in agreement with such results, except as otherwise specified in such letter. 
  
 For purposes of this subsection, (i) if the Effective Time of the Initial
Registration Statements is subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, “Registration Statements” shall mean the initial registration statement as proposed to be amended by the amendment or post-effective amendment to
be filed shortly prior to its Effective Time, (ii) if the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statements is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement but the Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement is subsequent to
such execution and delivery, “Registration Statements” shall mean the Initial Registration Statement and the additional registration statement as proposed to be filed or as proposed to be amended by the post-effective amendment to
be filed shortly prior to its Effective Time, and (iii) “Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in the Registration Statements. 
  

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 (b) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is not prior to the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Effective Time shall have occurred not later than 10:00 P.M., Baltimore time, on the date of this Agreement or such later date as shall have been consented to by Legg Mason. If the Effective Time of the
Additional Registration Statement (if any) is not prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Effective Time shall have occurred not later than 10:00 P.M., Baltimore time, on the date of this Agreement or, if earlier, the time the
Prospectus is printed and distributed to any Underwriter, or shall have occurred at such later date as shall have been consented to by Legg Mason. If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and Regulations and Section 5(a) of this Agreement. Prior to such Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration
Statement shall have been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of any Selling Shareholder, the Company or the Representatives, shall be contemplated by the Commission. 
  
 (c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as
one enterprise which, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities; (ii) any
downgrading in the rating of any debt securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act), or any public announcement that any such organization
has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any change in U.S.
or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls as would, in the judgment of the Representatives, be likely to prejudice materially the success of the proposed issue, sale or distribution
of the Offered Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any material suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National
Market, or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange or market, or any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or market or in the over-the-counter market; (v) any banking moratorium declared by U.S.
Federal or New York authorities; (vi) any major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States; or (vii) any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, any
declaration of war by Congress or any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency, singly or together
with any other event specified in this clause (vii), makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities. 
  
 (d) The Representatives shall have received an opinion,
dated such Closing Date, of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, counsel for the Company, to the effect that: 
  
 (i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in North Carolina; 
  
 (ii) The Offered Securities delivered on such Closing Date
and all other outstanding shares of the Common Stock of the Company have been duly authorized; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and, when the Offered Securities are delivered and paid for in accordance with this Agreement
on such Closing Date, such Offered Securities will be, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus; and (A) the shareholders of the Company have no statutory preemptive rights
with respect to the Securities, and (B) to the knowledge of such counsel, the shareholders of the Company have no contractual preemptive rights with respect to the Securities; 
  

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 (iii) Except as set forth in the Prospectus, to such counsel’s knowledge, there are
no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by
such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the
Act; 
  
 (iv) No consent, approval, authorization
or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required to be obtained or made by the Company for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the sale of the Offered
Securities, except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be required under state securities laws or the by-laws or rules and regulations of the NASD; 
  
 (v) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions therein
contemplated (A) to such counsel’s knowledge, do not violate any applicable law or any order of any court or governmental authority that is binding on the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their assets(except that such counsel need
not express an opinion regarding any federal securities laws or Blue Sky or state securities laws) , (B) do not violate or constitute a breach or default under any loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument
filed as an exhibit to or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, or the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March
31, 2004, and June 30, 2004, to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and (C) do
not violate the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except where a breach, violation or default of the type specified in clause (B) above would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect; 
  
 (vi) The Company is not and,
after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus will not be, required to be registered as an
“investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940; 
  
 (vii) The Initial Registration Statement was declared effective under the Act as of the date and time specified in such opinion, the
Additional Registration Statement (if any) was filed and became effective under the Act as of the date and time (if determinable) specified in such opinion, the Prospectus either was filed with the Commission pursuant to the subparagraph of Rule
424(b) specified in such opinion on the date specified therein or was included in the Initial Registration Statement or the Additional Registration Statement (as the case may be), and, to the knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of a Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated under the Act, and each Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and each
amendment or supplement thereto, as of their respective effective or issue dates, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations; and the reports incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus, when they were filed with the Commission complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; 
  
 (viii) The descriptions in the Registration Statements and
Prospectus of statutes, legal and governmental proceedings and contracts and other documents are accurate in all material respects and fairly present in all material respects the information required to be shown (with the exception of the
descriptions regarding government regulation, as to which we express no opinion); and such counsel 
  

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 do not know of any legal or governmental proceedings required to be described in a Registration Statement
or the Prospectus which are not described as required or of any contracts or documents of a character required to be described in a Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to a Registration Statement which are not
described and filed as required; it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion as to the financial statements or other financial or statistical data contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements or the
Prospectus; and 
  
 (ix) This Agreement has been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company. 
  
 In
addition to the matters set forth above, such counsel shall also include a statement to the effect that, in the course of its assistance in the preparation of the Registration Statements and the Prospectus, such counsel has participated in
conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, the Underwriters, counsel for the Underwriters and representatives of the independent public accountants of the Company, at which conferences the contents of the Registration
Statements and the Prospectus were discussed, that such counsel has considered the matters required to be stated therein and the statements contained therein, and that although such counsel does not pass on and does not assume any responsibility for
the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus, and such counsel has not independently verified the accuracy, completeness or fairness of such statements except as specified in
subsection (ix) above, on the basis of the foregoing and the information that was disclosed to such counsel, (i) no information came to such counsel’s attention that leads such counsel to believe that the Registration Statement (including any
document filed under the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference therein), as of its effective date (but after giving effect to changes incorporated pursuant to Rule 430A under the Act), contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (except for the financial statements, including the notes and schedules thereto and the auditor’s report thereon, or any
other financial or statistical data or accounting information set forth or referred to in the Registration Statement or any document incorporated therein by reference or any exhibits thereto, as to which such counsel expresses no view), and (ii) no
information has come to such counsel’s attention that leads such counsel to believe that the Prospectus, as of its date or the date of such counsel’s opinion, contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or
omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (except for the financial statements, including the notes and schedules thereto and the
auditor’s report thereon, or any other financial or statistical data or accounting information set forth or referred to in the Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or any exhibits thereto, as to which such counsel
expresses no view). 
  
 (e) The Representatives
shall have received an opinion, dated such Closing Date, of Joel B. McCarty, Jr., Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Company, to the effect that: 
  
 (i) The Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all
jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect; and 
  
 (ii) The descriptions in
the Registration Statements and Prospectus of government regulation are accurate in all material respects and fairly present in all material respects the information required to be shown. 
  
 (f) The Representatives shall have received opinions, dated
such Closing Date, of Edwards & Angell LLP, in the case of the Earl E. Congdon Intangibles Trust, of Hirschler Fleischer, P.C., in the case of the John R. Congdon Revocable Trust, the John R. Congdon, Jr. Revocable Trust, the Susan C. Terry
Revocable Trust, and the Jeffrey W. Congdon Revocable Trust, and of Keziah, Gates & Samet, L.L.P., in the case of the David S. Congdon Revocable Trust, dated 12/3/91, the Audrey L. Congdon Revocable Trust, and the Karen Congdon Pigman Revocable
Trust, in each case to the effect that: 
  

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 (i) To the knowledge of such counsel, (A) each Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion
is provided has valid and unencumbered title to the Offered Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder on each Closing Date which Offered Securities are represented by the certificates being concurrently deposited with American Stock Transfer
& Trust Company, as custodian (the “Custodian”), pursuant to the Custody Agreement (the “Custody Agreement”), between such Selling Shareholder and the Custodian, and has full right, power and authority to sell,
assign, transfer and deliver the Offered Securities delivered by such Selling Shareholder on such Closing Date hereunder, and (B) upon delivery thereof and payment therefor in accordance with this Agreement, and assuming such Underwriters are bona
fide purchasers, the several Underwriters will have acquired valid and unencumbered title to the Offered Securities purchased by them from such Selling Shareholder on such Closing Date hereunder; 
  
 (ii) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or
filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required to be obtained or made by any Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is provided for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Custody Agreement
in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities sold by such Selling Shareholders, except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be required under state securities laws or the by-laws or rules and regulations of the
NASD; 
  
 (iii) The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the Custody Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under (A) any
statute, any rule, or regulation that such counsel has, in the exercise of customary professional diligence, recognized as applicable to any Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is provided or to transactions of the type contemplated by this
Agreement or the Custody Agreement (except that such counsel need not express an opinion regarding any federal securities laws or Blue Sky or state securities laws) or, to such counsel’s knowledge, any order of any governmental agency or body
or any court having jurisdiction over any Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is provided or any of their properties or (B) to such counsel’s knowledge, any agreement or instrument to which any Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is
provided is a party or by which any such Selling Shareholder is bound or to which any of the properties of any such Selling Shareholder is subject; 
  
 (iv) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is provided; and

  
 (v) Each of the Custody Agreement and the
Power of Attorney, dated the date of the Custody Agreement, of each Selling Shareholder for whom the opinion is provided has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder and constitutes a valid and legally binding
obligation of such Selling Shareholder enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’
rights and to general equity principles. 
  
 (g)
The Representatives shall have received from Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O., counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated such Closing Date, with respect to the incorporation of the Company, the validity of the Offered Securities
delivered on such Closing Date, the Registration Statements, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Representatives may require, and the Selling Shareholders and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they
request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. In rendering such opinion, Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O. may rely as to the incorporation of the Company upon the opinion of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC referred to
above. 
  
 (h) The Representatives shall have
received a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in which such officers, to their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that: the representations and
warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct; the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on 
  

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 its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date; no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated by the Commission; the Additional Registration Statement (if any) satisfying the requirements of
subparagraphs (1) and (3) of Rule 462(b) was filed pursuant to Rule 462(b), including payment of the applicable filing fee in accordance with Rule 111(a) or (b) under the Act, prior to the time the Prospectus was printed and distributed to any
Underwriter; and, subsequent to the respective dates of the most recent financial statements in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition
(financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in the Prospectus or as described in such certificate. 
  
 (i) The Representatives shall have received a letter, dated
such Closing Date, of Ernst & Young LLP which meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to in such subsection will be a date not more than three days prior to such Closing Date for the
purposes of this subsection. 
  
 (j) On or prior
to the date of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received lockup letters from each director and executive officer of the Company. 
  
 (k) Each Selling Shareholder will deliver to Legg Mason a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department Form W-9 (or
other applicable form or statement specified by the United States Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof). 
  
 The Selling Shareholders and the Company will furnish the Representatives with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the
Representatives reasonably request. Legg Mason may in its sole discretion waive on behalf of the Underwriters compliance with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, whether in respect of an Optional Closing Date or
otherwise. 
  
 7. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The
Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, members, directors and officers and each person, if any who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act (the “Underwriter
Indemnitees”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus, or
arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case
to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as
such in subsection (c) below; and provided, further, that with respect to any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any preliminary prospectus, the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection (a)
shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Offered Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus relating to such Offered Securities was
required to be delivered by such Underwriter under the Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from the fact that there was not sent or given to such person, at or prior to the
written confirmation of the sale of such Offered Securities to such person, a copy of the Prospectus (exclusive of material incorporated by reference therein) if the Company had previously furnished copies thereof to such Underwriter. 
  
 (b) Each Selling Shareholder will severally, and not jointly, indemnify and
hold harmless the Underwriter Indemnitees against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become 
  

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 subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus, or
arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Selling Shareholders will not be liable in
any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the
information described as such in subsection (c) below; and provided, further, that with respect to any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any preliminary prospectus, the indemnity agreement contained
in this subsection (b) shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Offered Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus relating to such
Offered Securities was required to be delivered by such Underwriter under the Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from the fact that there was not sent or given to such
person, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of such Offered Securities to such person, a copy of the Prospectus (exclusive of material incorporated by reference therein) if the Company had previously furnished copies thereof to such
Underwriter. In no event, however, shall the aggregate liability of a Selling Shareholder under this Section 7(b) and for breaches of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained herein or otherwise exceed the amount of the net
proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of Securities hereunder. 
  
 (c) Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act,
and each Selling Shareholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which they or any of them may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise
out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus, or arise out of or
are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and
will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company and each Selling Shareholder in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred, it being
understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: (A) the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the fourth
paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”; and (B) the information related to stabilizing transactions appearing in the tenth paragraph (solely with respect to the representations of the Underwriters) under the caption
“Underwriting.” 
  
 (d) Promptly after receipt by
an indemnified party under this Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above, notify the
indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above except to the extent that it has been materially
prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise
than under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies an indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and,
jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party),
and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section for any legal or other expenses
subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in 
  

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 connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation so long as the indemnifying party
continues to diligently defend such action with counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in
respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such (i) settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability
on any claims that are the subject matter of such action and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party. 
  
 (e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or
liabilities referred to in subsection (a), (b) or (c) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the
offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the
relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before
deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters. As between the Company and the Selling Shareholders only, however, the relative benefits
shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and each Selling Shareholder, respectively. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among
other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company, the Selling Shareholders or the Underwriters and the
parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in
the first sentence of this subsection (e) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection
(e). The Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this subsection (e) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one
entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (e). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (e), no Underwriter shall be
required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has
otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission, and no Selling Shareholder shall be required to contribute more than the net proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder from the
sale of Securities hereunder. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The
Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint. 
  
 (f) The obligations of the Company and the Selling Shareholders under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and the Selling
Shareholders may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section shall be in addition
to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each director of the Company, to each officer of the Company who has signed a Registration Statement and to each person,
if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act. 
  
 8. Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their obligations to purchase Offered Securities hereunder on either the First or any Optional Closing Date and the aggregate number of shares of Offered
Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total number of shares of Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on such Closing Date, Legg Mason may
make arrangements satisfactory to the Company and the Selling Shareholders for the purchase of such 
  

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 Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by such
Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing
Date. If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate number of shares of Offered Securities with respect to which such default or defaults occur exceeds 10% of the total number of shares of Offered Securities that the Underwriters
are obligated to purchase on such Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to Legg Mason, the Company and the Selling Shareholders for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons are not made within 36 hours after such default, this
Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Shareholders, except as provided in Section 9 (provided that if such default occurs with respect to Optional Securities after the
First Closing Date, this Agreement will not terminate as to the Firm Securities or any Optional Securities purchased prior to such termination). As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for
an Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default. 
  
 9. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of
the Selling Shareholders, of the Company or its officers and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof,
made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, any Selling Shareholder, the Company or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If this
Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8 or if for any reason the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to
Section 5 and the respective obligations of the Company, the Selling Shareholders, and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 7 shall remain in effect, and if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder the representations and warranties in
Section 2 and all obligations under Section 5 shall also remain in effect. If the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to
Section 8 or the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) or (vii) of Section 6(c), the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably
incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities. 
  
 10. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the Underwriters, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Representatives, c/o Legg Mason Wood Walker
Incorporated, 100 Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, Attention: Alexsander Stewart, with a copy, which shall not constitute notice, to Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O., 411 S. 13th Street, Suite 200, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508, Attention: Heidi Hornung-Scherr, or, if sent to the Company or the Selling Shareholders or any of them, will be
mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to 500 Old Dominion Way, Thomasville, North Carolina 27360, Attention: J. Wes Frye and Joel B. McCarty, Jr., with a copy, which shall not constitute notice, to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC,
One Wachovia Center, Suite 3500, 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Attention: Garza Baldwin, III; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 7 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and
confirmed to such Underwriter. 
  
 11. Successors. This
Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective personal representatives and successors and the officers and directors and controlling persons referred to in Section 7, and no other person will have
any right or obligation hereunder. 
  
 12. Representation.
The Representatives will act for the several Underwriters in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and any action under this Agreement taken by the Representatives jointly or by Legg Mason will be binding upon all the
Underwriters. 
  
 13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement. 
  
 14. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of
New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws. 
  

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 The Company hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the State
of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. 
  
 If the foregoing is in accordance with the Representatives’ understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the
counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Selling Shareholders, the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms. 
  
 Very truly yours, 
  

			
	OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Earl E. Congdon

	Name:	 	Earl E. Congdon
	Title:	 	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

  

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	 THE DAVID S. CONGDON REVOCABLE TRUST, DATED 12/3/91

		
	By	 	 /s/ David S. Congdon, Trustee

	 	 	David S. Congdon, as Trustee
	  
 THE EARL E.
CONGDON INTANGIBLES TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ David S. Congdon, Trustee

	 	 	David S. Congdon, as Trustee
	  
 THE JOHN R.
CONGDON REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ John R. Congdon, Trustee

	 	 	John R. Congdon, as Trustee
	  
 THE JOHN R.
CONGDON, JR. REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ John R. Congdon Jr., Trustee

	 	 	John R. Congdon, Jr., as Trustee
	  
 THE AUDREY L.
CONGDON REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ Audrey L. Congdon, Trustee

	 	 	Audrey L. Congdon, as Trustee
	  
 THE JEFFREY W.
CONGDON REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ Jeffrey W. Congdon, Trustee

	 	 	Jeffrey W. Congdon, as Trustee
	  
 THE KAREN
CONGDON PIGMAN REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ Karen Congdon Pigman, Trustee

	 	 	Karen Congdon Pigman, as Trustee
	  
 THE SUSAN C.
TERRY REVOCABLE TRUST

		
	By	 	 /s/ Susan C. Terry, Trustee

	 	 	Susan C. Terry, as Trustee

  

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	 The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and
 accepted as of the date first above written.

	  
 LEGG
MASON WOOD WALKER, INCORPORATED

	 BB&T CAPITAL MARKETS, A DIVISION OF SCOTT
&
STRINGFELLOW, INC.

	 STEPHENS INC.

	  
 Acting on behalf of themselves
and as the
Representatives of the several Underwriters.

  

			
	BY LEGG MASON WOOD WALKER, INCORPORATED
		
	By	 	 /s/ E. Bradley, Jr.

	 	 	Authorized Representative

  

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 SCHEDULE A 
  

			
	Selling Shareholder	  	 Number of
 Firm Securities
 to be Sold

	 The David S. Congdon Revocable Trust, dated 12/3/91
	  	185,000
	 The Earl E. Congdon Intangibles Trust
	  	480,000
	 The John R. Congdon Revocable Trust
	  	480,000
	 The John R. Congdon, Jr. Revocable Trust
	  	185,000
	 The Audrey L. Congdon Revocable Trust
	  	185,000
	 The Jeffrey W. Congdon Revocable Trust
	  	185,000
	 The Karen Congdon Pigman Revocable Trust
	  	185,000
	 The Susan C. Terry Revocable Trust
	  	185,000
	 	  	

	 Total
	  	2,070,000
	 	  	

 SCHEDULE B 
  

			
	Underwriter	  	 Number of
 Firm Securities
 to be Purchased

	 Legg Mason Wood Walker Incorporated
	  	976,000
	 BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.
	  	732,000
	 Stephens Inc.
	  	732,000
	 	  	

	 Total
	  	2,440,000Form of Notice of Grant

 Exhibit 10.1 
  

			
	 

	 	 GlobalSantaFe Corporation
 15375 Memorial
Drive
 Houston, Texas 77079-4101

  

 Memorandum 

  

	Date:	[Grant Date] 

  

	To:	[Name of Director] 

  

	From:	[Name of Officer] 

  

	Subject:	Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Units 

  
 Effective [Grant Date], you have been granted 3,000 non-employee director restricted stock units representing ordinary shares of GlobalSantaFe
Corporation, subject to the restrictions and other terms and conditions set forth in the attachment to this memorandum. Your restricted stock units are evidenced by a credit to a book entry account in the company’s records, and this memorandum
and its attachment are the only evidence of your grant that you will receive. 
  
  
 Attachment 

 

 
  
 GLOBALSANTAFE CORPORATION 

 
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS 
 OF 
 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR RESTRICTED
STOCK UNITS 
  
 The board of directors of GlobalSantaFe Corporation (the
“Company”), acting through its Compensation Committee (the “Committee”), has granted to you, pursuant to the GlobalSantaFe 2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), restricted stock units (“Restricted
Units”) representing ordinary shares, $.01 par value per share, of the Company (“Ordinary Shares”). This grant of Restricted Units is awarded to encourage your continued dedication and service as a Non-Employee Director of the Company
and is intended to motivate you to continue your efforts to enhance shareholder value by increasing your potential stake as a shareholder and thereby aligning your interests more directly with the interests of the Company’s other shareholders.
Terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan. 
  

	1.	Restricted Unit Grant. Subject to the restrictions and other terms and conditions outlined herein (the “Terms and Conditions”) and the terms and conditions of the
Plan as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms, you are granted the number of Restricted Units stated in the memorandum to which these Terms and Conditions are attached (the “Memorandum”), effective the date stated in the
Memorandum (the “Grant Date”). Each Restricted Unit represents one Ordinary Share. During the period of time between the Grant Date and the earlier of the date your Restricted Units vest or are forfeited (the “Restricted
Period”), your Restricted Units will be evidenced by a credit to a book entry account in the Company’s records. 

  

	2.	Agreement. By accepting the Restricted Units granted hereunder, you represent and agree that (i) you will abide by the terms of the Plan and such other terms and conditions
as may be imposed by the Company’s board of directors or the Committee, (ii) you will not induce or solicit, directly or indirectly, any employee of the Company or an affiliate of the Company to terminate such employee’s employment with
the Company or such affiliate and (iii) during the course of your service as a Non-Employee Director of the Company and at all times thereafter, you will not disclose to others or use other than for the benefit of the Company and its affiliates,
whether directly or indirectly, any Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall mean the information about the Company or any of its affiliates that you learned in the course of performing your duties with the Company,
including, without limitation, any proprietary knowledge, trade secrets, data, information and customer lists unless such disclosure is required by law or authorized by the Company. 

	3.	Vesting. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 9 and 10, your Restricted Units will vest on the third anniversary of the Grant Date, at which time the restrictions imposed
by these Terms and Conditions will be removed and your Restricted Units and dividend equivalent payments will be payable to you pursuant to the payment provisions of Sections 7 and 8; provided that you serve continuously as a director
of the Company or any successor company throughout the three-year period following the Grant Date (the “Vesting Period”). Restricted Units that do not vest and dividend equivalent payments that do not become payable pursuant to Section 7
or 8 shall be forfeited to the Company, and you shall not thereafter have any rights with respect to such forfeited Restricted Units or dividend equivalent payments. 

  

	4.	Restrictions. Except as authorized by Section 5, any Restricted Units granted hereunder may not be sold, assigned, pledged or otherwise transferred prior to satisfaction of
the payment provisions of Section 7 or 8. 

  

	5.	Transfer. You may transfer Restricted Units to (i) your spouse, children or grandchildren (“Immediate Family Members”), (ii) a trust or trusts for your exclusive
benefit or the exclusive benefit of your Immediate Family Members, (iii) a partnership in which you and/or your Immediate Family Members are the only partners, (iv) a transferee pursuant to a judgment, degree or order relating to child support,
alimony or marital property rights that is made pursuant to a domestic relations law of a state or country with competent jurisdiction (a “Domestic Relations Order”), or (v) such other transferee as may be approved by the Committee in its
sole and absolute discretion; provided, however, that (x) the Committee may prohibit any transfer with or without cause in its sole and absolute discretion, and (y) subsequent transfers of transferred Restricted Units or any portion thereof
are prohibited except those to or by you in accordance with this Section 5 or pursuant to a Domestic Relations Order. Following any transfer, the Restricted Units will continue to be subject to the same restrictions described in these Terms and
Conditions as were applicable immediately prior to the transfer, and any and all terms of these Terms and Conditions, other than those in items (ii) and (iii) in Section 2, will apply to the transferee. 

  
 Each transfer permitted in this Section will be effected by written notice
thereof duly signed and delivered by the transferor to the Secretary of the Company at the Company’s principal business office. Such notice will state the name and address of the transferee, the number of Restricted Units being transferred, and
such other information as may be requested by the Secretary. The person or persons entitled to receive dividend equivalent payments with respect to the Restricted Units and to receive Ordinary Shares upon vesting of the Restricted Units will be that
person or those persons appearing on the Company’s registry books as the owner or owners of the Restricted Units. The Company will have no obligation to, or liability for any failure to, notify you or any transferee of any forfeiture of
Restricted Units or of any event that will or might result in such forfeiture. 
  

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	6.	Dividend Equivalent Payments. Upon payment during the Restricted Period or any Deferral Period (as defined below in Section 8) of any dividend with respect to Ordinary
Shares, you will be credited on the books of the Company with a cash amount equal to the amount of such dividend multiplied by the number of Restricted Units you are granted hereunder. Accrued dividend equivalent payments credited to you will be
payable to you pursuant to the payment provisions of Section 7 or 8. 

  

	7.	Payment. Except as otherwise contemplated in Section 8, upon satisfaction of the vesting conditions set forth in Sections 3, 9 or 10, (i) your Restricted Units will be
payable to you in the form of a transfer to you of a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the number of your vested Restricted Units, and (ii) all dividend equivalent payments credited to you pursuant to Section 6 will be payable to you, without
interest, in the form of a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the total of the dividend equivalent payments credited to you divided by the per share Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) of the Ordinary Shares on the vesting date, with any
fractional share resulting from the calculation being forfeited without any payment in respect thereof. 

  

	8.	Deferral Election. You may elect to defer the transfer of Ordinary Shares in payment of vested Restricted Units until the earlier of (i) a date specified by you at the time
of your deferral election, or (ii) your termination of service as a director of the Company for any reason. Any such election shall be irrevocable, must be made in writing and delivered to the Company pursuant to Section 16 not later than the second
anniversary of the Grant Date, and shall be subject to such terms and restrictions as the Committee may prescribe. If you make a deferral election, any dividend equivalent payments credited to you during the period from the date of vesting of the
Restricted Units to the date of transfer of Ordinary Shares (the “Deferral Period”) shall be immediately converted into a number of stock units representing a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the total of the dividend equivalent payments
credited to you divided by the per share Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) of the Ordinary Shares on the dividend payment date (“Deferred Dividend Equivalent Units”). Dividend equivalent payments will be credited to you with
respect to Deferred Dividend Equivalent Units in the same manner as Restricted Units. Upon payment of your Restricted Units, you will also receive a transfer of a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the number of your Deferred Dividend Equivalent
Units with any fractional share being forfeited without any payment in respect thereof. You are advised to consult a tax advisor before making a deferral election. 

  

	9.	Termination of Service as a Director. 

  

	 	(a)	Termination by Reason or Death or Disability or Involuntary Termination Other Than For Cause. If, during the Vesting Period, your service as a 

  

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 director of the Company is terminated by reason of your death or disability or is terminated by the
Company’s shareholders other than for Cause (as defined below), or your service as a director of the Company is terminated due to a failure to nominate you for reelection as a director other than for Cause (in each case other than as a result
of your ineligibility for reelection under provisions of the Company’s Articles of Association regarding age (“Retirement”)), your Restricted Units will vest immediately upon such termination, at which time the restrictions imposed by
these Terms and Conditions will be removed and your Restricted Units and dividend equivalent payments will be payable to you pursuant to the payment provisions of Section 7. 
  

	 	(b)	Voluntary Termination or Termination For Cause. If, during the Vesting Period, you voluntarily terminate your service as a director of the Company, including without
limitation due to your resignation or decision not to stand for reelection, or your service as a director of the Company is terminated for Cause, your unvested Restricted Units and any associated dividend equivalent payments will be forfeited
immediately upon such termination. 

  

	 	(c)	Retirement. If, during the Vesting Period, your service as a director of the Company is terminated by reason of your Retirement, (meaning your ineligibility for reelection
under provisions of the Company’s Articles of Association regarding age), (i) a portion of your unvested Restricted Units, prorated to the nearest whole Restricted Unit for the number of days you served as a director during the original
three-year Vesting Period, will immediately vest upon such termination; (ii) your Restricted Units that do not vest upon such termination will be forfeited immediately upon such termination; and (iii) at the end of the original three-year Vesting
Period, the restrictions imposed by these Terms and Conditions will be removed from your vested Restricted Units and your vested Restricted Units and any dividend equivalent payments associated with the vested Restricted Units and credited to you
through the date of such termination will be payable to you pursuant to the payment provisions of Section 7. 

  
 Your termination will be for “Cause” if your service as a director is terminated because you willfully engage in conduct that is materially
injurious to the Company and/or an affiliate of the Company, monetarily or otherwise; provided, however that (i) no termination of your service as a director shall be for Cause until you have been delivered a copy of a written notice setting forth
that you were guilty of the conduct and specifying the particulars thereof in detail and (ii) termination solely on account of inadequate performance or incompetence shall not constitute termination for Cause. No act, nor failure to act, shall be
considered “willful” unless you have acted, or failed to act, without a reasonable belief that your action or failure to act was in the best interest of the Company and its affiliates. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Terms and
Conditions to the contrary, your failure to perform after notice of termination is given shall not constitute Cause. 
  

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	10.	Change in Control. If a Change in Control occurs while you are a director of the Company, your Restricted Units will vest immediately on the date of such Change in Control,
at which time the restrictions imposed by these Terms and Conditions will be removed and your Restricted Units and dividend equivalent payments will be payable to you pursuant to the payment provisions of Sections 7 and 8. 

 
 A “Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the
following events: 
  
 (i) The acquisition by any individual,
entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) (a “Person”), other than an Excluded Person (as defined below), of the beneficial
ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more of either (A) the then outstanding ordinary shares of the Company (the “Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares”) or (B) the combined voting power of the then
outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”); provided, however, that neither an acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related
trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or by any affiliate controlled by the Company nor an acquisition by an affiliate of the Company that remains under the Company’s control will constitute a Change in Control; or 
  
 (ii) Individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Company’s
board of directors (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Company’s board of directors; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose
election, or nomination for election by the Company’s equityholders, was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board will be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent
Board, but excluding for this purpose any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of either an actual or threatened election contest (meaning a solicitation of the type that would be subject to Rule 14a-11 of Regulation
14A under the Exchange Act) or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Company’s board of directors; or 
  
 (iii) Approval by the equityholders of the Company of a reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction to
which the Company or any affiliate is a party, in each case unless, following such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction, (A) more than 50% of, respectively, the then outstanding ordinary shares or shares of common stock of
the corporation or other entity resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation or other entity entitled to vote generally
in the 
  

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 election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by all or substantially all of
the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction in
substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction, of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be,
(B) 50% of, respectively, the then outstanding ordinary shares or shares of common stock of the parent of the corporation or other entity resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction and the combined voting power
of the then outstanding voting securities of the parent of such corporation or other entity entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by the individuals and entities who were the
beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction, (C) no Person (excluding the Company, any
affiliate of the Company that remains under the Company’s control, any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or by any affiliate controlled by the Company or such corporation resulting from such
reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction, and any Person beneficially owning, immediately prior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction, directly or indirectly, 35% or more of the Outstanding Company
Ordinary Shares or Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 35% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding ordinary shares or shares of common stock of the corporation or other entity
resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction or the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation or other entity entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, and
(D) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of the corporation resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial
agreement providing for such reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar transaction; or 
  
 (iv) Approval by the equityholders of the Company of any plan or proposal which would result directly or indirectly in (A) a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company, or (B) any sale or other disposition (or
similar transaction) (in a single transaction or series of related transactions) of (x) 50% or more of the assets or earnings power of the Company, or (y) business operations which generated a majority of the consolidated revenues (determined on the
basis of the Company’s four most recently completed fiscal quarters for which reports have been completed) of the Company and its affiliates immediately prior thereto, other than to an affiliate of the Company or to a corporation or other
entity with respect to which following such sale or other disposition (I) more than 50% of, respectively, the then outstanding ordinary shares or shares of common stock of such corporation or other entity and the combined voting power of the then

  

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 outstanding voting securities of such corporation or other entity entitled to vote generally in the
election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares and Outstanding Company
Voting Securities immediately prior to such sale or other disposition in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such sale or other disposition, of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares and Outstanding Company
Voting Securities, as the case may be, (II) no Person (excluding the Company, any affiliate of the Company that remains under the Company’s control, any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or by any
affiliate controlled by the Company or such corporation, and any Person beneficially owning, immediately prior to such sale or other disposition, directly or indirectly, 35% or more of the Outstanding Company Ordinary Shares or Outstanding Company
Voting Securities, as the case may be) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 35% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding ordinary shares or shares of common stock of such corporation or other entity or the combined voting power of the
then outstanding voting securities of such corporation or other entity entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, and (III) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such corporation were members of the Incumbent
Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement or action of the Company’s board of directors providing for such sale or other disposition of assets; or 
  
 (v) Approval by the equityholders of the Company of a “merger of equals” (which for purposes of this Subsection
shall mean a merger with another company of relatively equal size) to which the Company is a party as a result of which the persons who were equity holders of the Company immediately prior to the effective date of such merger shall have beneficial
ownership of less than 55% of the combined voting power for election of members of the board (or equivalent) of the surviving entity or its parent following the effective date of such merger, provided that the Company’s board of directors shall
have authority to increase said percentage as may in its sole discretion be deemed appropriate to cover a specific transaction. 
  
 For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term “Excluded Person” shall mean and include (i) any corporation beneficially owned by shareholders
of the Company in substantially the same proportion as their ownership of shares of the Company and (iii) the Company and any affiliate of the Company. 
  

	11.	Rights as a Stockholder. Neither you, nor any person claiming through you, shall have any rights as a stockholder with respect to the Ordinary Shares represented by your
Restricted Units unless and until all these Terms and Conditions and the terms of the Plan that affect you or such other person shall have been complied with as specified herein and Ordinary Shares have been transferred to you in accordance with
Section 7 or 8. 

  

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	12.	Adjustments. The Restricted Units are subject to adjustment (including, without limitation, as to the number and type of shares represented by the Restricted Units) in the
sole discretion of the Committee and in such manner as the Committee may deem equitable and appropriate in connection with the occurrence of any of the events described in the adjustment provisions of the Plan following the Grant Date.

  

	13.	Requirements of Law and Stock Exchanges. Your right to the Restricted Units and the issuance and delivery of the Ordinary Shares are subject to compliance with all applicable
requirements of law. In addition, the Company will not be required to deliver any Ordinary Shares if such delivery would violate any rule or regulation of any governmental authority or any rule or regulation of, or agreement of the Company with, any
securities exchange or association upon which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted. 

  

	14.	Continued Service and Future Grants. Neither the grant of Restricted Units nor the other arrangements outlined herein give you the right to remain a director of the Company
or to be selected to receive similar or identical grants in the future. 

  

	15.	Company’s Rights. The existence of the Restricted Units shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Company or its shareholders to undertake or accomplish any
corporate act. 

  

	16.	Notices. Notice or other communication to the Company with respect to these Terms and Conditions must be made in writing and delivered to: Secretary, GlobalSantaFe
Corporation, at its principal business office, Houston, Texas. 

  

	17.	Governing Law. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the state of Texas. 

  

	18.	The Plan, the Board of Directors and the Committee. The Restricted Units are granted to you under and pursuant to the Plan as the same shall have been amended from
time to time in accordance with its terms. The decision of the Company’s board of directors or the Committee on any questions concerning the interpretation or administration of the Plan or any matters covered in these Terms and Conditions will
be final and conclusive. No amendment to the Plan or decision of the board of directors or the Committee will deprive you, without your consent, of any rights hereunder. 

  
 A copy of the Plan in its present form is available at the Company’s principal office for inspection during business
hours by you or other persons who may be entitled to any of the Restricted Units as contemplated herein. 
  

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