The group's principal activities are to provide transportation services through carrier, multimodal and insurance segments. carrier segment provides truckload transportation for a wide range of general commodities over irregular routes with its fleet of dry and specialty vans and unsided trailers, including flatbed, drop deck and specialty. services provided through multimodal segment include the arrangement of intermodal moves, contract logistics, truck brokerage and emergency and expedited air freight. insurance segment provides risk and claims management services & also reinsures certain property, casualty & occupational accident risks of certain independent contractors. the services are provided to a variety of industries, including iron & steel, automotive products, paper, lumber & building products, aluminum, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery & military hardware. carrier segment accounted for 79% of 2001 revenues; Multimodal segment