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White acquired several truck manufacturing companies during this time: Sterling (in 1951), Autocar (in 1953), [16] REO (in 1957) and Diamond T (in 1958). [17] [18] White also agreed to sell Consolidated Freightways, Freightliner Trucks through its own dealers. [19] White produced trucks under the Autocar nameplate following its acquisition.
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]
Freightliner Manufacturing, founded by CF as Freightways Manufacturing in 1939 was a key to CF's early success. To begin with, Freightliner only built equipment for CF but in 1951 the company contracted Ohio-based White Motor Company to market and sell the excess trucks that CF didn't need, as it expanded, [ 1 ] creating the White/Freightliner ...
U.S. 50 and Ohio 128 were reopened. The railcar’s temperature had been stabilized, and the car had been transported to its final destination in Addyston, officials told the media at an evening ...
On October 14, 2008, Daimler Trucks North America announced a plan to discontinue the Sterling product line in an effort to consolidate its North American truck manufacturing operations under the Freightliner and Western Star brands. The company stopped taking orders for new trucks in January 2009, the St. Thomas manufacturing plant closed in ...
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.
Daimler Truck is the global market leader in the medium and heavy-duty truck segment with a gross vehicle weight of over 6 tons. In 2019, around 489,000 vehicles were delivered in this segment. [ 3 ] Financial and mobility services are offered via the Daimler Truck Financial Services division.
Western Star Trucks acquired the bus manufacturer Ontario Bus Industries (renamed Orion Bus Industries) in 1995. ERF trucks was purchased by Western Star in 1996. [4] [5] It was sold in 2000 to MAN. [6] In 2000, Western Star was purchased by DaimlerChrysler, becoming part of the Freightliner Trucks division. [2] [7] [8]