June 1, 2007

Report: Cummins Target for Takeover (Freightliner Truck)

WISH-TV - Reuters report pointed to “takeover expectations” a day after a European auto maker said it plans to expand its truck Freightliner uses Mercedes and Detroit Diesel engines, and Schneider National runs mainly Freightliner trucks, Brezonick said. Continue

Sporting News - Well The Jazz lost another difficult game in San Antonio and now find themselves down 0-2. That is an intimidating number set and the task to over come it is indeed daunting. It can be done however and the key column to overcome is not three point Continue

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June 01st 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 31, 2007

Email this story to a friend (Freightliner Truck)

Warren Tribune Chronicle - According to the patrol, Borelli was driving a 2004 Ford van north around 10 a.m. when it crossed through the median and hit the left side of a 2005 Freightliner tractor trailer. The truck driver, Theodore Stinchcomb, 59, of Baltimore, was treated at Continue

Todays Trucking - After 16 months of wind-tunnel testing and over a million hours of design work, Freightliner Trucks has launched the new Cascadia on-highway truck. It s said to deliver a fuel-economy improvement of 3% based on a 20% gain in aerodynamic efficiency Continue

OregonLive.com - Laid off recently from his job driving a truck for Freightliner, Larry Bettencourt doesn’t anticipate any problem finding a new job. “I go down to the Employment Department, and there’s lots of postings for truck drivers,” the Tualatin resident said Continue

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May 31st 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 30, 2007

Big rig nearly falls off freeway (Freightliner Truck)

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - The truck spun around in the freeway,” Rippee said, wearing a hat with gold pins that proclaimed he had no prior I thought I was going over the edge,” he said, standing near his 1989 Freightliner that was twisted into a guardrail. Nearby details

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May 30th 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 27, 2007

MD80891’s SportingBlog entries tagged with BreakingNews (Freightliner Truck)

Sporting News - Well The Jazz lost another difficult game in San Antonio and now find themselves down 0-2. That is an intimidating number set and the task to over come it is indeed daunting. It can be done however and the key column to overcome is not three point continued

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May 27th 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 23, 2007

Freightliner Truck - Crash takes out power

Bennington Banner - The 2003 Freightliner truck, owned by Advanced Auto Supply, was traveling west on Main Street/Route 9 when the vehicle veered off the road and collided with the pole. Police said the truck sheared the pole in half, and part of the pole came to rest Continue reading

Black Press USA - As DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial, it also finances commercial vehicles for affiliate products such as Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star. The company serves as the headquarters for operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico Continue reading

Todays Trucking - the system used in Europe for meeting emission standards, and also declared as the 2010 solution of choice by Freightliner and SCR systems will not run out of reducing agent while on the road, the EPA is requiring engine makers to work with truck Continue reading

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May 22, 2007

Freightliner Truck - ENGINE EMISSIONS

Todays Trucking - Freightliner Numero Uno kicks off Truck World 2006 - (Headline News) from April 20, 2006 Chris Patterson sounds off on OEMs’ past sins, capacity details

Detroit News - DaimlerChrysler AG said its U.S. truck-financing operations are being split into four regions to improve service to Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star dealers. DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial disclosed the plan in a statement Monday. The Lisle, Ill details

WBBM - KYOTO, Japan (AP) Japan pledged up to $2.1 billion in aid Sunday to the Asian Development Bank to combat CLEVELAND, N.C. (AP) Workers at Freightliner LLC’s largest truck manufacturing plant have approved a new contract, barely two weeks OMAHA details

Todays Trucking - In a recent interview with Today’s Trucking, Freightliner President and CEO Chris Patterson partly blamed the market slip on the lack of incentives to truck buyers, leaving fleet managers and owner-operators with no other option but to avoid the details

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May 22nd 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 21, 2007

Freightliner Truck - Truckmaker introduces short-haul alternative

Engineering News - The Freightliner division of DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA) has put a new option on the table for truck operators. This one is not for the long-haul market, but for regional runarounds, such as moving bricks, to do fuel deliveries, or for use details

Sporting News - Schrempp also decided to acquire Chrysler Corp to add the growing list of Daimler Benz acquisitions such as Freightliner, Detroit Diesel, Ford’s medium duty truck line rebranded as Sterling, Thomas buses and more. The Germans seem to have this innate details

Blackenterprise.com - Freightliner will conduct truck parts distribution operations at AMB Pearson Logistics Centre - Building 100, to service customers across Ontario and the northeastern region of the United States. Freightliner occupies the bulk-warehouse facility details

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May 21st 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 20, 2007

THERE S NOTHING LIKE A NEW TRUCK (Freightliner Truck)

Todays Trucking - THERE S NOTHING LIKE A NEW TRUCK by Rolf Lockwood May 9, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 9 For a hardware junkie like yours truly, a new So at the launch of the new Freightliner Cascadia in Charlotte, NC last week, we did the proper thing and drank champagne after Read more

Wharton - One option in this regard would be to close or sell the car operations, and focus on trucks (the Freightliner), light trucks VW plant in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, and that Porsche has a similar cooperative agreement with a VW truck Read more

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - The truck spun around in the freeway,” Rippee said, wearing a hat with gold pins that proclaimed he had no prior I thought I was going over the edge,” he said, standing near his 1989 Freightliner that was twisted into a guardrail. Nearby Read more

Spokane Spokesman-Review - After 60 years, Freightliner’s Portland plant stops producing its signature highway truck. With it go 750 union jobs and another piece of a fading culture here . 6. IMHO-NW: Robert Herold /Inlander ( Avista Execs: What you pay for ), Dan Hammes /St Read more

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May 20th 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 17, 2007

End of the affair (Freightliner Truck)

Herald Tribune - In 1981 the German concern bought Freightliner - which builds heavy-duty commercial vehicles - and today Daimler, with the help of Freightliner, is the world’s largest truck manufacturer. Automobile mergers can also transcend the divide between Continue reading

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May 17th 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
May 15, 2007

Freightliner Truck - Illinois men charged

NWITimes.com - Saturday, a trooper watching the Flying J truck stop off Interstate 65 on Ind. 2 saw the Bobcat Freightliner in which Gibson and Gilbert were traveling pull into the truck stop, circle the lot, stop for a moment, then pull out, court records allege Continue

Albert Lea Tribune - BRICELYN One person was listed as injured after a Freightliner semi-truck struck a Union Pacific train on Faribault County Road 21 about two miles northwest of Bricelyn at 6:06 p.m. Wednesday. The name and address of the person injured will be Continue

OregonLive.com - Truck industry insiders say DaimlerChrylser’s sale of its money-losing U.S. auto division will have little impact on Portland-based truck maker Freightliner, aside from possibly ending a few product and sales collaborations and an employee discount Continue

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May 15th 2007 Added to Freightliner Truck Latest Info
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