Webcast Alert: Spartan Motors, Inc. Announces 2nd Quarter 2002 Financial Release Conference Call Webcast

July 15, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

CHARLOTTE, Mich., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spartan Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPAR) announces the following Webcast:

  What:     Spartan Motors, Inc. 2nd Quarter 2002 Financial Release
            Conference Call

  When:     8/1/02 @ 10:00 a.m. Eastern

  Where:    http://www.firstcallevents.com/service/ajwz362587163gf12.html

  How:      Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the
            address above.

Contact: Jeff Lambert & Brian Edwards, Principals, Lambert, Edwards & Associates, +1-616-233-0500, mail@lambert-edwards.com

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at www.spartanmotors.com .

Spartan Motors, Inc. (www.spartanmotors.com) is a leading developer and manufacturer of recreational vehicle chassis, fire trucks and fire-truck chassis, ambulances and other emergency-rescue vehicles. The Company also owns fire truck and rescue vehicle manufacturers Luverne Fire Apparatus, Quality Manufacturing and Road Rescue, Inc.

(Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast: The Windows Media Player software, downloadable free from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/EN/default.asp and at least a 28.8Kbps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the broadcast, send an email to webcastsupport@tfprn.com .)

Audio: http://www.firstcallevents.com/service/ajwz362587163gf12.html

Source: Spartan Motors, Inc.

CONTACT: Jeff Lambert & Brian Edwards, Principals of Lambert, Edwards &
Associates, +1-616-233-0500, or mail@lambert-edwards.com , for Spartan Motors,
Inc.

Web site: http://www.spartanmotors.com/