For Immediate Release:

Randall Publishing purchases PNV.com
Randall plans to create one super-site
for the trucking community – eTrucker.com

Tuscaloosa, Ala. (March 16, 2001) – Randall Publishing Company, publisher of Overdrive, Truckers News, Trucking Co. and its "everything trucking" information and service website, eTrucker.net, today acquired PNV.com, a division of PNV, Inc., of Coral Springs, Florida.

PNV.com is a leading website for the trucking industry boasting more than 50,000 registered users and featuring a variety of unique services. It will merge with Randall’s eTrucker.net. The new site, eTrucker.com, will be the industry’s foremost information and service portal with the largest number of registered users in the trucking community.

"With this merger, PNV.com brings our current Web-development team additional insight and talent solidifying our place as the leader in trucking information services," explains Jeff Mason, vice president and group publisher of Randall's Trucking Media Group. "This combination will not only create the trucking industry’s largest database of registered users on one site, eTrucker.com, but will also feature advanced technologies, services, programs and news far superior to what is available online today.”

Mason says that all technical and infrastructure operations will move from New York to Tuscaloosa. Randall’s eTrucker team will work with PNV.com throughout the transition and will begin merging the two sites immediately. No date has been set for completion of the transition.

“We are excited about combining our information leadership and their communities into one super-site for our industry,” says Randy Schwartzenburg, eTrucker general manager and publisher. "For users of the new site, eTrucker.com will keep the core editorial features from our site, and offer even more in-depth industry news, research and services such as load matching, routing, weather, equipment auctions and business and financial planning.” According to Schwartzenburg, eTrucker.com will combine information and services from both sites, introducing a new look and numerous new and improved features. The first of PNV.com’s features to be incorporated into the new site are its routing, chat-rooms and shopping-cart, which will expand to give users more products and choices. The message board and its extensive editorial coverage will be integrated from the eTrucker.net site.

Randall's purchase of the PNV.com assets was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court during PNV Inc.'s chapter 11 hearing on March 7, 2001. PNV Inc. made headway in the trucking industry by offering cable and wireless services to trucking companies, drivers and truck stops all over America. The acquisition of PNV.com does not include other assets of PNV Inc. such as its cable television and telephony services, which were recently purchased by TTI Holdings, Inc.

About Randall-Reilly Publishing
Founded in 1934, Randall-Reilly Publishing is the premier business-to-business media company focused on the trucking and construction industries. Its properties include Equipment World, Overdrive, Truckers News, CCJ and Modern Woodworking magazines..

Randall-Reilly also owns and operates several online media entities, including www.eTrucker.com, www.equipmentworld.com and www.modernwoodworking.com. Also under the Randall-Reilly corporate umbrella are the Great American Trucking Show, radio programs, a billboard company, a company-sponsored publication division serving Fortune 500 companies, and a UCC-filing database and research group.

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