DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial Teams up With Chicago Cares to Renovate Two Chicago Public Schools

  WHAT:  120 volunteers from DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial headquartered
         in Lisle will be spending Wednesday, August 9, teaming up with
         Chicago Cares to refurbish the Young Elementary School.  The 120
         volunteers will be painting, cleaning and landscaping.

  WHO:   Todd Hubbard, Vice President of Credit, Collections and Internal
         Operations at DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial

  WHEN:  12:30 - 2 p.m., Wednesday, August 9

  WHERE: Young Elementary School
         1434 North Parkside

  OTHER: Located in the North Austin area, Ella Flagg Young Elementary is a
         Chicago Public School serving approximately 1,650 students in
         grades K-8. The student body is roughly 95 percent African American
         and four percent Hispanic, and almost all students live in the
         school's neighborhood.  More than 95 percent of students qualify
         for free or reduced priced lunches.

         In addition to Wednesday's work at the Young School,
         DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial volunteers, again in conjunction
         with Chicago Cares, will do similar work Thursday, August 10, at
         the Ericson Academy, another Chicago public school.

  About Chicago Cares (http://www.chicagocares.org)/

Chicago Cares is a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for individuals and businesses to improve the Chicago community through participation in creative, structured group volunteer programs designed to address Chicago's most pressing needs. Chicago Cares develops more than 120 hands-on group volunteer projects each month serving children, adults, seniors, the environment, the hungry and homeless and much more.

Our innovative format gives people the opportunity to work on our projects on a flexible basis and has attracted thousands of active volunteers. Chicago Cares is an affiliate of Hands On Network, a growing alliance of innovative volunteer management and mobilization organizations across the United States, the U.K. and other countries.

About DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial

DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial, a unit of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, provides wholesale financing and credit lines to Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, and Thomas Built Bus dealers. Truck Financial offers a broad range of flexible financing plans for fleet customers, owner/operators and vocational customers as well as an extensive selection of dealer financial services to support DaimlerChrysler commercial vehicle brand sales in North America.

PRNewswire -- Aug. 9