Daimler recall inadvertently confirms new Western Star truck model

Western Star 47X in quarry

A Daimler Truck North America recall inadvertently confirmed the next addition to the Western Star X-Series of heavy-duty vocational trucks. A small number of pre-production 57X models have a defect in which part of the hood can become unglued and fall off.

Western Star has been renaming its off-highway heavy haul trucks as X-Series models. The 49X and 47X account for most of a 2,294-unit recall to replace stainless steel hood-mounted side intake covers that can come debonded from the intake....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-recall-inadvertently-confirms-new-western-star-truck-model

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