Pacer International Schedules 4th Quarter and Year 2002 Earnings Release and Conference Call for February 5

Business, Logistics and Transportation Editors

CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2003--Pacer International (Nasdaq:PACR), the North American logistics and transportation provider, will hold a conference call for investors, analysts, business and trade media, and other interested parties at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, Feb. 5 to discuss its fourth-quarter and full-year 2002 results. The actual results will be released three hours earlier, via Business Wire, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

Hosting the conference call will be Don Orris, chairman and chief executive officer, Pacer International; and Larry Yarberry, the company's chief financial officer.

To participate in the live conference, please call five minutes early by dialing (800) 288-8975 (in USA) and ask for "Pacer 4th Quarter and 2002 Earnings Call." International callers can dial (612) 288-0329. The call is expected to last approximately 45 minutes, including questions and answers.

For those unable to participate, a digitized replay will be available from Feb. 5 at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time to Feb. 12 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. For the replay, dial (800) 475-6701 (USA) or (320) 365-3844 (international), access code #669185.

ABOUT PACER INTERNATIONAL -- Pacer International, a leading non-asset based North American third-party logistics and transportation provider, offers a broad array of logistics and other services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination. Pacer International's services include wholesale stacktrain services (cost-efficient, two-tiered rail transportation for containerized shipments); and retail trucking, intermodal marketing, freight consolidation and handling, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. Pacer International is headquartered in Concord, California. Its business units Pacer Stacktrain and Pacer Global Logistics are headquartered in Concord, California and in Dublin, Ohio, respectively. Web site: www.pacer-international.com

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