EXHIBIT 5.1
August 18, 2000
United Shipping & Technology, Inc.
9850 51st Avenue North, Suite 110
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55442
Gentlemen:
I am General Counsel of United Shipping & Technology, Inc. (the
"Company"), a Utah corporation, in connection with its filing of Pre-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to a registration statement on Form S-3, under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the proposed sale by selling shareholders
of 6,553,341 shares of the Company's common stock.
I have examined the registration statement and those documents,
corporate records, and other instruments I deemed relevant as a basis for the
opinion herein expressed.
Based on the foregoing, it is my opinion that when the registration
statement shall have been declared effective by order of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the shares sold by the selling shareholders as contemplated
by the registration statement will be legally and validly issued, fully-paid and
nonassessable.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the
registration statement and to the reference to our firm under the caption "Legal
Matters" in the prospectus included in such registration statement.
Very truly yours,
By: /s/ Kenneth D. Zigrino
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Kenneth D. Zigrino, General Counsel
United Shipping & Technology, Inc.
