The company's vehicles demonstrate the brand’s wide range of capabilities, from cargo vans to utility trucks.
The town is replacing their 1998 Talbert 35-ton lowboy and 1998 Mack Tractor that was nearing the end of its service life.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly affected Daimler Trucks North America’s work on medium- and heavy-duty battery-electric trucks, and despite production shutdowns due to the pandemic, the company is back to building vehicles at the same rate it was before the pandemic hit.
“Diesel will be here for a long while, and [knowing] total cost of ownership remains the main motivator of acceptance for battery-electric and fuel-cell trucks.” That was the message of Sean Waters, Daimler Trucks North America’s vice president of Product Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, speaking at the Green Truck Summit.
Eight new Freightliner electric trucks will soon go into the hands of fleet customers, which will help the OEM evaluate their performance in real-world trucking applications.
The “crossover excavator,” built on a Freightliner chassis, features maneuverability that Gradall says can help users get to more jobsites during the day.
Fleets in the market for a medium-duty truck have a wide variety of models to choose from in the 2020 model-year. Here are a few key highlights from each automaker.
The new Freightliner EconicSD, a cab-over-engine refuse truck with a collision mitigation system, will be on full display this year at WasteExpo 2019.
Cummins has announced that the company’s lightest engine for Class 8 trucks, the Cummins X12, is now available for Freightliner’s 114SD chassis.
A first for the brand’s vocational lineup, the Freightliner EconicSD comes standard with the Detroit Assurance suite of safety systems – which includes active brake assist, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, and side guard assist.
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