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Dan Beers Joins Pacer Stacktrain as EVP, Sales

CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2005--Pacer Stacktrain, part of Concord-California based Pacer International (Nasdaq:PACR), announced that intermodal industry veteran Dan Beers has joined the company as executive vice president for sales.

According to Tom Shurstad, president of Pacer Stacktrain, the appointment of Beers will permit the company to consolidate its various sales activities under a single executive. Beers will oversee Pacer Stacktrain's domestic, Mexico, automotive, and ocean carrier markets, he said.

With more than 30 years of transportation experience, Beers has held key management and sales positions in the rail, trucking, and intermodal sectors, including nine years with Mexico's TFM Railroad. He holds a BBA in accounting from Texas A&M.

Pacer Stacktrain operates a North America network of cost-efficient double-stacked trains (carrying two tiers of containers). It manages the special rail equipment and the loading, tracing and advance-arrival notification for its customers, while using the power, crews and trackage of the railroads. It also maintains managers in the field to facilitate train loadings and interchanges.

About Pacer International -- Pacer International, a leading non-asset based North American 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 business units Pacer Stacktrain and Pacer Global Logistics are headquartered in Concord, California, and in Dublin, Ohio, respectively. Web sites: www.pacer-international.com, www.pacerstack.com and www.pacerglobal.com.

Contacts

Pacer International, Inc.
Larry Yarberry, 925-887-1577 or 925-890-9245 (Cell)
(Investors)
lyarberry@pacerintl.com
or
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Steve Potash, 510-865-0800
(Media)
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