RouteOne Signs Compass Dealer Financial Services to Its Web-Based Credit Application Management System

Addition of Compass DFS expands the RouteOne lending roster to more than 130 contracted finance sources

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Nov. 2 -- RouteOne, LLC announced today that Compass Dealer Financial Services (DFS) has joined its web-based credit application management system. RouteOne was developed by DaimlerChrysler Financial Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, GMAC, and Toyota Financial Services to offer dealers a single point of access to both captive and non-captive finance sources. The addition of Compass DFS expands the RouteOne lending roster to 132 contracted finance sources.

Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a $33.6 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 409 full-service banking offices in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Texas. Compass Dealer Financial Services offers retail financing for over 1,200 dealerships in 13 states.

"The continued expansion of our lending roster provides increasing value for our 22,400 dealer customers," said Mike Jurecki, RouteOne CEO. "Compass DFS is a leading player in the automotive finance arena, and we are pleased to integrate with them."

"We are excited to be able to offer the RouteOne application interface to our dealer clients. Our partnership with RouteOne greatly expands our servicing capacity and further strengthens our partnership with the dealers," says Dianne Breuer, Executive Vice President, Compass DFS.

The RouteOne system has set record application volumes every month since its June 2004 launch. The system, free to dealers, offers a wide variety of tools to assist the dealer in managing the day-to-day business, such as a detailed reporting suite, DSP integration, and credit bureau access, all within a single desktop application.

About RouteOne

RouteOne was formed in 2002 to create a more streamlined credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers. Jointly owned by DaimlerChrysler Financial Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, GMAC, and Toyota Financial Services, RouteOne also provides a single point of access for dealer credit applications to some of the largest auto lenders and banks in North America. RouteOne offers dealers a common platform for submitting credit application information to the multiple finance sources with which they do business. Automotive dealers and their finance sources can exchange credit application and credit decisions in near real-time using RouteOne's web-based network. More information is available at http://www.routeone.com/ .

ABOUT COMPASS

Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a $33.6 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 409 full-service banking offices in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Texas. Compass is among the top 30 U.S. bank holding companies by asset size and ranks among the top earners of its size based on return on equity. Shares of Compass' common stock are traded through

the NASDAQ Global Select Market(SM) under the symbol CBSS. Compass Bank is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Select Dividend Index.