Vocational trucks
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Equipment
Western Star births little brother for 49X vocational truck
Western Star advances a family makeover with the second entry into its X-Series of vocational trucks.
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AEV Summit: Xos on why vocational vehicles make great EVs
Xos’ Dakota Semler and FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill chat about electrifying less glamorous vehicles such as armored trucks and transit vehicles.
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News
5 questions with Daimler Trucks North America’s Samantha Parlier
A car-crazed high schooler, Samatha Parlier learned long before becoming vice president of vocational market development for Daimler Trucks North America that even though both…
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News
All-new Western Star 49X vocational truck breaks cover
Six years in development, the new vocational truck adopts safety technology from Daimler Trucks’ on-highway models with other firsts for extreme-use trucks.
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Trucking
Volvo announces new auto hauler, details VHD vocational truck
Volvo Trucks North America has announced a new auto hauling tractor that is based on its recently introduced VHD vocational truck.
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Equipment
Break-even values dictate used truck trade-ins
The numbers game is intensifying as falling used truck prices and swelling inventories persuade fleets to hang on to younger equipment until they can break…
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News
Western Star delivers 200,000th truck
Western Star celebrated a production milestone the same week as parent Daimler Trucks elevated the off-highway truck segment for which the 53-year-old brand is best…
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Energy
Volvo Trucks creates electric-powered construction concepts for Europe
Volvo Trucks is building on sales of electric trucks for urban transport in Europe with battery-electric concepts for construction and regional distribution.
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Trucking
Navistar expands TRATON partnership with Canadian mining deal
The door to TRATON Group selling trucks in North American opened a crack with a memo of understanding between Navistar and TRATON to sell Scania…
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Trucking
Winter wonder: How about a plow that inhales and vaporizes snow?
Designs of future vocational trucks by students at the ArtCenter College of Design may contain some long-term value for the Western Star Truck Sales subsidiary…
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