Pacer International and Its Employees Raise More Than $68,000 for Hurricane Relief; Company Also Provides Relief Transportation Services

CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--Responding to the hurricane devastation experienced during the last two weeks in the Gulf of Mexico region, Pacer International, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACR), the North America logistics and freight transportation provider, said its 1,700 employees have raised $34,126 for humanitarian relief efforts. The company contributed an additional $34,250, resulting in a combined contribution from Pacer and its employees of $68,376 to the American Red Cross for hurricane relief.

Larry Yarberry, Pacer's executive vice president and chief financial officer, noted that the company has also made shipping containers and trucking services available for humanitarian relief efforts to the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area at no charge.

Yarberry applauded the company's employees for their compassion and generosity. "Just eight months ago (in February), Pacer employees raised nearly $20,000 for victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia, and the company matched that sum. Of their own volition, employees have again rallied -- this time to help the U.S. hurricane victims, and increasing their own giving by nearly 80 percent."

ABOUT PACER INTERNATIONAL -- Pacer International, a leading non-asset based North America third-party logistics and freight transportation provider, offers a broad array of logistics and other services through its subsidiaries and divisions to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination. Its wholesale services include Stacktrain (cost-efficient, two-tiered rail transportation for containerized shipments) and cartage (local trucking) services; and its retail services include intermodal marketing, truck brokerage, truck services, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. Pacer International is headquartered in Concord, California. Its principal business units, Pacer Stacktrain and Pacer Global Logistics, are headquartered in Concord CA and in Dublin OH, respectively.

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