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AM General also acquired Department of Defense contracts for medium and heavy trucks, including the M151 series, [30] 2 1/2 ton M35 series, and 5 ton M809 series in the 1970s, then the M939 series in the 1980s. In 2005, AM General was contracted to take over militarization, sales, and marketing of LSSV vehicles. [31] [6]
In 1984 PACCAR posted record sales in its history of $2.25 billion. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In the mid-1980s, PACCAR share of Class 8 trucks dropped to about 18% owing to aggressive competition from Freightliner Trucks , which is a subsidiary of Daimler AG and the merged operations of Volvo White and General.
Volvo Trucks (Swedish: Volvo Lastvagnar) is a truck manufacturing division of Volvo based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Trucks was a separate company within Volvo. The Volvo Group was reorganised on 1 January 2012 and as a part of the process, Volvo Trucks ceased to be a separate company and was instead incorporated into Volvo Group Trucks along ...
In 1986, Volvo AB entered into a joint venture with General Motors in heavy-truck production, with Volvo taking an 85% stake. [2] [3] Having acquired White Motor Company in 1980, the joint venture would do business as Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corporation, selling trucks under the combined WhiteGMC product badge. Under the joint venture, GMC trucks ...
In 1988, Volvo and General Motors merged their heavy truck divisions in North America, creating Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corporation and a new brand of trucks, White-GMC. Western Star was sold to Australian entrepreneur Terry Peabody in 1990. [ 41 ]
Renault Véhicules Industriels (which included Mack Trucks, but not Renault's stake in Irisbus) was sold to Volvo during January 2001, and Volvo renamed it Renault Trucks in 2002. Renault became AB Volvo's biggest shareholder, with a 19.9% stake (in shares and voting rights) as part of the deal. [28] Renault increased its shareholding to 21.7% ...
A jury found Timothy Williams guilty on all three counts of second-degree murder in the 1984 rape and murder of 14-year-old Wendy Jerome. "Justice delayed was not going to be justice denied for ...
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. Geraldine Ferraro and George H. W. Bush participate in the 1984 vice presidential debate. October 14 – World Series: The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres to win in 5 games.