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Freightliner Trucks is an American semi truck manufacturer. [1] Founded in 1929 as the truck-manufacturing division of Consolidated Freightways (from which it derives its name), the company was established in 1942 as Freightliner Corporation. [2]
The Daimler Truck and Daimler Buses divisions include the eight vehicle brands BharatBenz, Freightliner, FUSO, Mercedes-Benz, RIZON, Setra, Thomas Built Buses and Western Star. Daimler Truck is the global market leader in the medium and heavy-duty truck segment with a gross vehicle weight of over 6 tons.
Daimler Truck North America LLC (formerly Freightliner Corporation) is an automotive industry manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and LLC of the German multinational Daimler Truck AG.
Solid tires, cast iron wheels, and chain drive remained available. During 1928, International's own tractor engines were replaced in the heavy-duty lineup by much more modern and powerful units from Hall-Scott; model numbers accordingly gained an HS-prefix and these were fitted with front drum brakes to handle the higher speeds possible. In ...
The 57X is the on-highway variant which a uses Freightliner Cascadia chassis and cab but has many improvements such as reinforced cabin bones, different doors, and an aerodynamic front end with two stage heated headlights and stainless steel chrome grille. It also implements a digital cockpit as standard equipment.
[19] [20] [21] Pacific Car's structural steel division made the steel used to build the 50-story Seattle-First National Bank headquarters and to build Seattle's Space Needle in 1961. The firm provided 5,668 steel panels, weighing 58,000 tons, which formed a major part of the load bearing walls for New York City's World Trade Center twin towers.
1946 Peterbilt flatbed 1939 Peterbilt Model 334 (1 of 2 built 1939). In 1939, the Fageol plant in Oakland opened for business as Peterbilt Motors Company. As part of the design process, Peterman and his company engineers sought input from truck owners and drivers on how to develop trucks; [10] [11] initially planning to develop chain-drive trucks for the logging industry, the company ...
1938 International DS218T; the LoneStar adopted its swept-back grille design (which extended onto the sides of the hood) According to Navistar, the Lonestar was developed to create an "Advanced Classic" truck, mating the design elements of vehicles from the past with 21st-century technology and aerodynamics; [5] the company cited its primary design influence as the late-1930s International ...