Pacer Distribution Services Strengthens Management Team; Three Significant Appointments Underscore Focus on Increased Effectiveness in a Growing Market

 SOUTH GATE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2005--The continued strong growth of imports arriving at the U.S. West Coast from Asia has spurred Pacer Distribution Services (PDS), the warehousing and distribution operation of Pacer International (Nasdaq:PACR), to strengthen its management team and position itself for increased business growth.

 The Pacer operation, which provides a full range of customized freight-handling services, operates three major Los Angeles-area warehouses totaling 800,000 square feet.

 Kent Prokop, PDS president, has announced the following key management appointments, aimed at building world-class capabilities in a growing market:

•   Jeff Lindner, with more than 20 years of operations and sales  experience, has joined PDS as vice president of Sales. His  responsibilities include marketing customized freight-handling  services that include consolidation, deconsolidation, cross-dock work, warehousing, and related drayage (local  trucking), and helping to integrate them with other  supply-chain services provided by the Pacer International  group. Lindner previously served as director of Business  Development for Exel, Inc., where he marketed integrated  solutions for the "high tech" sector.
•   Jose Tobias, a 20-year veteran of freight logistics, has been  named vice president of Operations, responsible for managing  operations at the company's warehouses and cross-dock  facilities and achieving world-class efficiency. Prior to joining PDS last fall, he served as general operations manager  for Syratech Inc., and also managed a 1.1 million square foot  facility for Toys R Us.
•   Clem Cleri has been promoted to vice president of PDS  Trucking, the operation's local trucking (drayage) provider  that enables Pacer to combine warehousing and freight-handling  services with and pick-up and delivery capabilities for customers. Formerly general manager of the drayage operation,  Cleri has more than 30 years of experience in trucking. Before  joining Pacer, he served as director of operations for the  southern region of Crescent Truck Lines, and was also associated with ANR Freight System and TNT.

 Said Prokop: "With this skilled, experienced management team fully in place, PDS is making progress in achieving improved execution of our customers' precise distribution requirements and utilization of facilities, and we are better positioned to capitalize on market growth." He added: "As a reflection of that, we are also improving our financial performance.

 "I expect Pacer Distribution Services, through these improvements in management and in execution, to be in a position to contribute -- in our own way -- to a smoother flow of freight in Southern California this year."

 ABOUT PACER INTERNATIONAL -- Pacer International, a leading non-asset based North America third-party logistics and freight transportation provider, offers through its subsidiaries and divisions a broad array of logistics and other services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination. Its services include wholesale stacktrain (cost-efficient, two-tiered rail transportation for containerized shipments) and cartage (local trucking) services; and retail intermodal marketing, truck brokerage, trucking 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, California, and in Dublin, Ohio, respectively. Pacer Distribution Services (PDS), which functions as part of the retail segment, is based in South Gate, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Pacer is a 2005 Forbes Platinum 400 company, one of the "Best Big Companies in the United States."

 Web site: www.pacer-international.com.

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 (Investor Contact)
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 SOURCE: Pacer International