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1924 Brockway 2.5-ton truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa. They began with Continental engines but switched to Wisconsin in 1925. They bought the Indiana Truck Corporation in 1928 but were forced to sell it to White Motor Company in the early years of the Great Depression. A new range, the V1200 was offered from 1934 ...
AEERSA (ambulances, rescue vehicles, fire trucks, 2000–present) Ace (1918–1927; also Busses) Alden Sampson; Alexis Fire Equipment Company (fire trucks, 1947–present) Alkane; Allianz; AM General; American (1911–1913) American Austin (1929–1934) American Bantam (1935–1941) American Coleman; American LaFrance (fire trucks) American ...
Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]
Sterling Trucks (United States) Stewart & Stevenson (United States) Studebaker (United States) Scot (Canada) [citation needed] Tesla Motors (United States) Traffic (United States) UD Trucks (different models for U.S. market) Volvo Trucks (different models for U.S. market) Vicinity Motor Corp. (Canada) Walter (United States) White (United States)
This is an incomplete list of trucks currently in production and discontinued trucks (as of 2014). This list does not include pickup trucks, nor trucks used only in militaries. Some images provided below may show the outdated model.
The L series was a complete range of trucks introduced in late 1949. The first new trucks since the war-era D/K/KB models, they introduced a cab with a one-piece curved windshield that continued in service until 1971. They were also the first trucks with the Raymond Loewy "IH" insignia that was used into the 1970s.
Kenworth's long running semi truck model. W990: 2019–present: 8: Classic-styled truck. Shares cab with T680 and T880. T800: 1987–present: 8: Kenworth's vocational and severe duty truck, available in both semi or rigid configurations. Shares cab with W900. T880: 2014–present: 8: Modernized variant of the T800 T680: 2013–present: 8
Allied Van Lines is an American moving company founded in 1928 as a cooperative non-profit organization owned by its member agents on the east coast of the United States, to help with organizing return loads and minimizing dead-heading (i.e. operating trucks without shipments loaded on them).