content: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
  
  
  
                                      FORM 8-K
  
                                   CURRENT REPORT
  
                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                           Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  
  
  Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 6, 2000
  
  
  
                                     TRISM, INC.
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
           Delaware                    0-23210             13-3491658
  (State or Other Jurisdiction        (Commission      (I.R.S. Employer
  of incorporation or organization)    File Number)    Identification No.)
  
                      4174 Jiles Road, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
                 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
  
  Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (770) 795-4600
  
  
  
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  ITEM 4.  CHANGES IN REGISTRANT'S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT
  
  The Board of Directors of Trism, Inc. ("Trism"), on the recommendation of the
  Audit Committee, authorized the President and CEO and the Executive Vice
  President and CFO to engage Deloitte & Touche LLP as Trism's independent
  auditors to audit its consolidated financial statements for the year ending
  December 31, 2000. This appointment, which was effective October 6, 2000,
  represents a change in outside auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to
  Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  
  The reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on the financial statements for
  the past two fiscal years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998 contained no adverse
  opinions or disclaimers of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to
  uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principle. During the two-year period
  ended December 31, 1999 and thereafter through October 6, 2000, there have been
  no disagreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on any matters of accounting
  principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or
  procedure, which disagreements if not resolved to the satisfaction of
  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP would have caused them to make reference thereto in
  their report on the financial statements for such years.
  
  Trism provided PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP with a copy of this disclosure
  and requested that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP furnish Trism with a letter
  addressed to the SEC stating whether or not PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP agrees
  with the above statements. The PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP letter, dated October
  13, 2000, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Form 8-K.
  
  ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
  
  (c) Exhibits
  
         16.1     Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in
  certifying auditor.
  
  SIGNATURES
  
  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
  registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
  
                                                Trism, Inc.
  
  
  Dated:  October 13, 2000                      By: /S/ James G. Overley
                                                    -------------------
                                                    James G. Overley
                                                    Executive Vice President and
                                                    Chief Financial Officer
  
  
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                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  
  Exhibit No.
  
  16.1     Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in certifying
  auditor.
  
  
  
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text: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
  
                                      FORM 8-K
  
                                   CURRENT REPORT
  
                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                           Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  
  Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 6, 2000
  
                                     TRISM, INC.
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
           Delaware                    0-23210             13-3491658
  (State or Other Jurisdiction        (Commission      (I.R.S. Employer
  of incorporation or organization)    File Number)    Identification No.)
  
                      4174 Jiles Road, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
                 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
  
  Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (770) 795-4600
  ITEM 4.  CHANGES IN REGISTRANT'S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT
  
  The Board of Directors of Trism, Inc. ("Trism"), on the recommendation of the
  Audit Committee, authorized the President and CEO and the Executive Vice
  President and CFO to engage Deloitte & Touche LLP as Trism's independent
  auditors to audit its consolidated financial statements for the year ending
  December 31, 2000. This appointment, which was effective October 6, 2000,
  represents a change in outside auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to
  Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  
  The reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on the financial statements for
  the past two fiscal years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998 contained no adverse
  opinions or disclaimers of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to
  uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principle. During the two-year period
  ended December 31, 1999 and thereafter through October 6, 2000, there have been
  no disagreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on any matters of accounting
  principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or
  procedure, which disagreements if not resolved to the satisfaction of
  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP would have caused them to make reference thereto in
  their report on the financial statements for such years.
  
  Trism provided PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP with a copy of this disclosure
  and requested that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP furnish Trism with a letter
  addressed to the SEC stating whether or not PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP agrees
  with the above statements. The PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP letter, dated October
  13, 2000, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Form 8-K.
  
  ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
  
  (c) Exhibits
  
         16.1     Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in
  certifying auditor.
  
  SIGNATURES
  
  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
  registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
  
                                                Trism, Inc.
  
  Dated:  October 13, 2000                      By: /S/ James G. Overley
                                                    -------------------
                                                    James G. Overley
                                                    Executive Vice President and
                                                    Chief Financial Officer
  EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  Exhibit No.
  
  16.1     Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in certifying
  auditor.