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FREIGHTLINER INTERNATIONAL KENWORTH MACK PETERBILT STERLING THOR WESTERN STAR
America. The division is known mainly for the heavy duty class 8 diesel trucks it offers, as
well as class 5-7 trucks. In the 1930s, Consolidated Freightways (CF) decided to produce their
own truck line from reconstructed Fageols, after finding most heavy trucks lacked sufficient
power to climb the steep mountain grades in the western United States. The trucks were branded
"Freightliners", with the first units produced in Consolidated Freightways' maintenance
facility in Salt Lake City around 1942.
International trucks
have been built and
sold by the
International
Harvester Company
(renamed
Navistar
International in
1986) from 1914
until the present
(2019).
Originally marketed
to farmers the
trucks were
immediately
successful and were
sold to
businesses in cities
as well. Since then
International
trucks have been
sold worldwide and
built or assembled
in the United
States, Australia,
Brazil, Canada,
England, Germany,
Mexico,
South Africa, the
Soviet Union, and
Turkey.
Kenworth truck
is an American
manufacturer of
medium and
heavy-duty Class 8
trucks with offices
based
in Kirkland,
Washington, a suburb
of Seattle.
Kenworth is one
of three major
truck divisions
and brands under
parent company
Paccar.
Kenworth trucks
was founded in
Portland,
Oregon in 1912 by
brothers George T.
and Louis Gerlinger,
Jr. as a car and
truck dealership
known as Gerlinger
Motor Car Works. In
1914, they decided
to build their own
truck with a more
powerful inline
six-cylinder engine,
the first put into a
commercial
truck.
Mack Trucks,
Inc., is an
American truck–manufacturing
company and a former
manufacturer of
buses and trolley
buses. Founded in
1900 as the Mack
Brothers Company, it
manufactured its
first
truck in 1907
and adopted its
present name in
1922.
Mack Trucks is a
subsidiary of AB
Volvo which
purchased
Mack along with
Renault Trucks
in 2000. After being
founded in
Brooklyn, New York,
the company's
headquarters were in
Allentown,
Pennsylvania from
1905 to
2009 when they moved
to Greensboro, North
Carolina. The entire
line of
Mack products is
Peterbilt Motors
Company, founded in
1939, is an American
manufacturer of
medium- and heavy-
duty
trucks. A
subsidiary of
Paccar, which also
owns fellow
heavy-duty truck
manufacturer
Kenworth.
Peterbilt trucks
Motors is
headquartered in
Denton, Texas and
operates
manufacturing
facilities in
Denton, Texas and
Sainte-Thérèse,
Quebec.In the first
third of the 20th
century,
logs for the lumber
industry were
floated downriver,
hauled with steam
tractors or
horse teams.
american trucks
Sterling Trucks
Corporation
(commonly designated
Sterling) is a
former
American truck
manufacturer of
Class 5-8
trucks. Taking
on its name from a
defunct
American truck
manufacturer,
Sterling was formed
in 1997 as
Freightliner
acquired the rights
to the heavy-
truck product lines
of Ford Motor
Company.
Sterling-brand
trucks were sold in
the United
States, Canada,
Mexico, Australia,
and New Zealand.
Western Star Trucks
Sales, Inc.,
commonly designated
Western Star, is
an
American truck
manufacturer
headquartered in
Portland, Oregon,
United States and a
subsidiary of
Daimler
Trucks North
America, in turn a
wholly owned
subsidiary of the
German Daimler AG.In
1967 White
Motor Company
started the
Western Star
division as White
Western Star
with a new plant at
Kelowna, British
Columbia, sharing
headquarters with
White in Cleveland,
Ohio. It was not
included in the 1980
sale of White to
Volvo, instead being
sold to Bow Valley
Resources and
Nova Corporation,
each owning 50%.