Exhibit (a)(12)


Press Release

Contacts:         Investor Relations:  Beth Whited 402-271-4227
                  Media:  Ira Rosenfeld 804-291-5362

Union Pacific Announces Registration Statement Relating to Motor Cargo
Acquisition has been declared effective by SEC

OMAHA--November 29, 2001--Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) announced that
the registration statement it filed on October 31, 2001, as amended, relating to
its acquisition of Motor Cargo Industries, Inc. has been declared effective by
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The registration statement contains,
among other things, the exchange offer which commenced on October 31, 2001,
whereby Union Pacific offered to exchange, at the election of the Motor Cargo
shareholders, each outstanding share of common stock of Motor Cargo for either
0.26 of a share of Union Pacific common stock, $12.10 in cash or a combination
of both.

The offer currently is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time,
today, November 29, 2001, unless extended. Union Pacific expects to consummate
the exchange offer at such time, subject to the satisfaction of all conditions
to the exchange offer.

Following completion of the exchange offer, Union Pacific intends to merge Motor
Cargo with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Pacific, Motor Merger Co., a Utah
corporation. In the merger, the remaining Motor Cargo shareholders will receive
$12.10 in cash for each outstanding share of common stock of Motor Cargo.

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 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,
filed by Union Pacific and the solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule
14D-9, filed by Motor Cargo. Such documents 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 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 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.