Freightliner LLC

Freightliner LLC , left the group Daimler, is most important manufacturer of vehicles heavy trucks of the United States of America.

The marks of the Freighliner group are:

Diesel Strait Corporation
Freightliner Custom Frame Corporation

Freightliner Trucks

Freightliner Market Development Corporation

Sterling Trucks

Thomas Built Tubes

Unimog

Western Star Trucks

LELAND JAMES (born in 1982, deceased in 1964)

He is the President of a Company of Transport Consolidated Freightways Inc, made up since 1929, of Spokane, State of Washington. With an aim of improving the productivity of its trucks, the company did not hesitate to modify its Véhicules, to increase charche useful and to reduce their maintenance to them. The workshop turned then to another concept of Camion: The C.O.E or Cab Over Engine: (truck with advanced cabin). And to reduce to the costs the firm a Châssis Fageol (a manufacturer of trucks) used, and named the CF-100.

In 1939, He wanted something of better than the trucks proposed by the manufacturers. He thus created a subsidiary company under the name of Freightways Manufacturing Corp . With Salt Lake City, Utah, to build a truck which would meet the needs for its company.

In 1942, the group was partly dismantled because in situation of monopoly in its area, American justice finding incompatible the functions of Constructeur and Transporteur, and all the production was repatriated with Portland, Oregon. And a new company Freightliner Corporation was founded.

In 1948, the company decided to market the model 800, called Bubblenose (nose truncated) and one of the first purchasers was the conveyer Hyster Company. (one manufacturing of Lifting truck), This truck traversed: 4 million Miles and its retirement, it was restored and presented to: Smithsonian Museum off History and Techology .

In 1949, a model with Cabine berth was introduced.

In 1951, Freightliner signs an agreement with White Motor Company, so that this last distributes its trucks within its network. This signature makes it possible the firm to concentrate on the production. This agreement will end in 1977.

In 1974, Freightliner introduces its first model with pooch, ( conventional ).

In 1981, Daimler-Benz, repurchased Freightliner.

In 1995, the firm entered on the market of the lighter trucks with the formation of the Custom Chassis Corporation . And Also the company bought the company American LaFrance one manufacturing of Camion of fireman, but was sold with a group of investors of New York in 2006.

In 1997, division heavy truck of Ford at summer sold in Daimler-Benz and re-elected the company: Sterling Trucks (not to be confused with the old Sterling, Daimler-Benz has the name since 1955), and then transmitted the control of the mark to Freightliner.

In 1998, Freightliner bought the company Thomas Built Buses, a manufacturer of Autobus.

In 2000, Daimler-Benz taken possession of Western Star Trucks for 670 million US dollards, of an Australian company whose owner was: Terrence Peabody. And the management of the Canadian company entrusted to Freightliner. And the same year, Daimler-Benz taken the Diesel control of Strait Corporation DDC,

In 2002, Consolidated Freightways Inc , declared bankruptcy, the court of justice of the California authorized the sale of Canadian division with transforce.

Reference: The World Encyclopedia Of the Trucks, Manise, a Mark Of the Minerva Editions.

External bonds

Official site
site of Consolidated Freightways Inc

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