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In 1979, a new plant in Mount Holly, North Carolina, and a parts manufacturing plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, were constructed, both in the Charlotte metropolitan area. Volumes continued to increase. [10] The year 1979 marked a consequential event in the evolution of Freightliner, and of the whole trucking and truck manufacturing industries.
Brazilian-built Mercedes-Benz short-bonnet trucks were assembled CKD (completely knocked down) by Freightliner until the end of 1990, the result of Daimler-Benz' 1981 purchase of the Oregon-based manufacturer. [7] The Brazilian Kurzhauber were sold as Class 6/7 trucks in the United States until 1991, when a Freightliner-badged replacement took ...
1970-1979. Cargostar. Paystar 5000. 1989 S1754. CargoStar (1970–1986) The CargoStar was a forward control cab-over-engine medium-duty series introduced in 1970 ...
In a shift from industry precedent, both the Thomas body and Freightliner chassis were designed together as a common unit (allowing the use of the dashboard in nearly its entirety); as a drawback, the pairing negated the use of the Freightliner C2 chassis by other body builders. In contrast to the Saf-T-Liner Conventional, the C2 is designed ...
At the time the 3800 ended production in 2004, the number of full-size body manufacturers from 1979 had decreased from eight to three (Blue Bird, Thomas, and IC, the successor to AmTran/Ward); International was the sole remaining chassis manufacturer (following the exit of Ford and GM, Freightliner and Blue Bird commenced production of cowled ...
The Ford C series is a range of trucks that was produced by Ford between 1957 and 1990. The first cab over engine (COE) truck produced with a tilting cab by Ford, the C series replaced the C-series COE variant of the F-Series, produced since 1948.
At the end of 1996, Ford sold the rights to its heavy-truck lines to Freightliner subsidiary of Daimler-Benz. Redesigned less than a year before, the Louisville/Aeromax heavy trucks were reintroduced as the Sterling brand of trucks. While the sale did not include the F-Series medium-duty trucks, a condition of the sale included a 10-year non ...
Ford ended production of the Louisville/Aeromax in 1998; the truck lines re-entered production as Sterling Trucks from 1998 to 2009; both lines were produced concurrently by Ford and Freightliner during 1998. [13] In 1998, Sterling began production in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, of their L-Line 7500, 8500, 9500, and A-Line 9500.