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The aftermarket division retained the Warn Industries name and operates out of their Clackamas, Oregon facility. Warn Industries product lineup includes winches, bumpers, hubs, and accessories for trucks, SUVs, ATVs, utilities, and off-road vehicles. Dover Corporation retained Warn's OEM business, rebranded as Warn Automotive.
Consolidated Freightways was founded on April 1, 1929 by Leland James in Portland, Oregon. Originally a single truck LTL operation, in the early days James combined four local short-haul carriers in the Portland area into a single carrier. At the beginning, the company primarily focused on the Portland area before expanding into the region. [1]
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] In 2002, Western Star production was moved to a plant in Portland, Oregon. [9]
1896- Gottlieb Daimler creates the first truck. 1923- First diesel truck: Benz [3] 1926- Daimler and Benz merge. 1942- Leland James founds the Freightliner Corporation. 1947- Freightliner opens its first truck plant in Portland, Oregon. 1950- Hyster Company is the first private carrier to order a Freightliner truck.
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 ]
In 1991–92, the company provided four streetcars to TriMet, in Portland, Oregon, for use on the Portland Vintage Trolley service, which began operation in late 1991. Similar to the "Lowell enclosed" model, these were replicas of 1904 Brill -built, double-truck cars, patterned on streetcars that had been operated locally, in Portland.