Oshkosh Truck To Announce Fiscal 2002 Fourth Quarter Earnings and Update Fiscal 2003 Expectations on October 29

    OSHKOSH, Wis.--Oct. 7, 2002--Oshkosh Truck Corporation , a leading manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies, announced today that it will issue its fourth quarter and fiscal year end 2002 financial results on October 29, 2002. Robert G. Bohn, Oshkosh chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Charlie Szews, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will also update expectations for the company's fiscal 2003 performance.
    A live conference call for security analysts and institutional investors will be held at 11:00 a.m. eastern standard time the same day. The conference call will be available simultaneously, in a listen-only format, via webcast. To access the webcast, investors should go to www.oshkoshtruck.com at least 15 minutes prior to the event.

    Oshkosh Truck Corporation is a leading manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for the defense, fire and emergency, concrete placement and refuse hauling markets. Oshkosh Truck is a Fortune 1000 company with products marketed under the Oshkosh, Pierce, McNeilus, Medtec, Geesink and Norba brand names. The company is headquartered in Oshkosh, Wis., and had annual sales of $1.45 billion in fiscal 2001.