EXHIBIT (a)(8)

Press Release

Contacts:           Investor Relations:  Beth Whited 402-271-4227
                    Media:  Ira Rosenfeld 804-291-5362
                    Motor Cargo:  Lynn Wheeler 801-299-5294

Union Pacific Commences Exchange Offer for Shares of Motor Cargo Industries
Common Stock

OMAHA--October 31, 2001--Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) and Motor Cargo
Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRGO) today announced that Union Pacific has commenced
an offer to exchange each outstanding share of common stock of Motor Cargo for
either 0.26 of a share of Union Pacific stock, $12.10 in cash or a combination
of both. The offer is being made pursuant to a previously announced Agreement
and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 15, 2001, and a tender offer statement,
dated October 31, 2001. The offer is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New
York City time, on November 29, 2001, unless extended.

Following completion of the offer and receipt of shareholder approval, if
required, Union Pacific intends to merge Motor Cargo with a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Union Pacific which will own the operations of Motor Cargo.

In the merger, the remaining Motor Cargo shareholders will receive $12.10 in
cash, per Motor Cargo share. Because only cash will be paid in the merger, Motor
Cargo shareholders who wish to receive Union Pacific stock must tender their
shares in the offer.

The Board of Directors of Motor Cargo unanimously (i) determined that the terms
of the offer and the merger are fair to and advisable and in the best interests
of Motor Cargo and its shareholders, (ii) approved and adopted the Agreement and
Plan of Merger and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the offer
and the merger, and (iii) recommends that Motor Cargo shareholders accept the
offer and tender their shares pursuant to the offer.

The offer is subject to certain conditions, including tender of shares of Motor
Cargo common stock representing more than two-thirds of the outstanding common
stock of Motor Cargo on a fully diluted basis, expiration or termination of the
waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,
as amended, the effectiveness of the registration statement relating to the
exchange offer and other conditions specified in the offer documents. Two
significant shareholders of Motor Cargo who collectively own approximately 62.5%
of Motor Cargo's outstanding shares have agreed to tender their shares in the
offer and, subject to certain conditions, to exchange their Motor Cargo shares
for Union Pacific stock.

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated acted as a financial advisor to Union Pacific
and Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. acted as a financial advisor to Motor Cargo.




The Exchange Agent for the offer is Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A., 161 North
Concord Exchange, South St. Paul, MN.

The Information Agent for the offer is Morrow & Co., Inc., 445 Park Avenue, 5th
Floor, New York, New York 10022. Call collect (212) 754-8000, banks and
brokerage firms call (800) 654-2468 or shareholders call (800) 607-0088.

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                   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND WHERE TO FIND IT

This news release is being filed pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act
of 1933. This document does not constitute an offer of sale of securities.
Shareholders of Motor Cargo and other investors are urged to read the following
documents, when available, in connection with the transaction described above:
the prospectus, exchange offer materials, registration statement on Form S-4 and
Schedule TO, containing or incorporating by reference such documents and other
information, to be filed by Union Pacific and the solicitation/recommendation
statement on Schedule 14D-9, to be filed by Motor Cargo. Such documents will
contain important information about Motor Cargo, Union Pacific, the transaction,
and significant shareholders and their interests in the transaction, and related
matters.

In addition to the prospectus, exchange offer materials, registration statement,
Schedule TO, and Schedule 14D-9, Union Pacific and Motor Cargo file annual,
quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the
SEC. You may read and copy any reports, statements or other information filed by
Motor Cargo or Union Pacific at the SEC Public Reference Rooms at 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549 or at the SEC's public reference room in
Chicago. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the
public reference rooms. Union Pacific's and Motor Cargo's filings with the SEC
are also available to the public from commercial document-retrieval services and
at the web site maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Free copies of the
exchange offer materials, when available, and these other documents may also be
obtained from Union Pacific by directing a request by mail to Union Pacific
Corporation, 1416 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68179, Attention: Investor
Relations, Telephone: 1-877-547-7261. Free copies of the Schedule 14D-9, when
available, may also be obtained from Motor Cargo by directing a request by mail
to Motor Cargo Industries, Inc., 845 West Center Street, North Salt Lake City,
Utah 84054, Attention: Investor Relations, Telephone: (801-299-5294).