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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....

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La llamada a revisión de Daimler confirma inadvertidamente un nuevo modelo de camión Western Star

Western Star 47X in quarry

Una llamada a revisión de Daimler Truck North America ha confirmado inadvertidamente la próxima incorporación a la serie X de camiones vocacionales pesados de Western Star. Un pequeño número de modelos 57X de preproducción tiene un defecto en el que parte del capó puede despegarse y caerse.

Western Star ha renombrado sus camiones de transporte pesado fuera de carretera como modelos de la Serie X. Los modelos 49X y 47X representan la mayor parte de una llamada a revisión de 2.294 unidades para...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/la-llamada-a-revision-de-daimler-confirma-inadvertidamente-un-nuevo-modelo-de-camion-western-star

Newly independent Daimler Truck reports 20% group sales gain in 2021

Daimler Truck, the newly spun off stand-alone entity out from the shadow of Mercedes-Benz automobiles, reported Tuesday that groupwide sales rose 20% in 2021 compared with a year earlier. The gains came despite parts and semiconductor shortages that hampered production.

The group sales of 455,000 units outpaced 2020 results of 378,290 trucks and buses and hit volume targets at the group level and in segments. 

Trucks North America, the largest of four industrial business segments created in the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/newly-independent-daimler-truck-reports-20-group-sales-gain-in-2021

Truck order cancellations spike, but not for lack of demand

Anecdotal reports of Class 8 truck orders being canceled started gaining currency in October. Now, the statistics are bearing out the stories. Manufacturer-spiked orders for the past two months are the highest in more than a quarter of a century.

“Between this month’s cancellations and the restatement of October’s volume, we have to go all the way back to Q3 1995 to find a month, or two, to rival current cancellation volumes,” said Kenny Vieth, president and senior analyst at ACT Research.

The...

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Exclusive: Daimler drops Western Star 5700XE model, some current orders canceled

Alex Kholb understood when his salesman told him delivery of the Western Star 5700EX he ordered in July was delayed from November to January. After all, the current supply chain crisis is inconveniencing everybody in some way.

But Kholb was incensed when the dealership called a week ago to tell him his order had been canceled with no substitute equipment offered and no incentive or priority on a future order. He would get back the $1,500 deposit on the $165,000 tractor.

“I said, ‘Wait a minute....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/exclusive-daimler-drops-western-star-5700xe-model-current-orders-canceled

Truck Talk: Machine gun-tested edition

This week: Mack Trucks delivers its machine-gun-tested dump trucks to the Army; a former Navistar and General Motors executive thinks autonomous trucks will flip the script on passenger cars leading new technologies to market; and Western Star dealers want their demo trucks back.

Machine gun tested

Mack Trucks delivered its first heavy-duty M917A3 armored dump trucks to the U.S. Army this week, and it is pretty sure to have a satisfied customer.

After all, how many new trucks get strafed by machine...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-machine-gun-tested-edition

Western Star births little brother for 49X vocational truck

Western Star is making a family thing out of its newest off-highway trucks, introducing a little brother to the popular 49X vocational model that debuted last year. 

The move signals Daimler Trucks’ commitment to building the brand’s tough-task vocational trucks in North America as it becomes a stand-alone company later this year. 

The 47X, which goes on sale in early 2022, shares a chassis and electrical architecture with the 49X, meaning customers can seamlessly move between the models and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/western-star-births-little-brother-for-49x-vocational-truck

FreightWaves Classics: White Motor Company was a trucking pioneer

A Coca-Cola delivery truck manufactured by the White Motor Company. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

For eight decades (1900-1980), White Motor Company was a mainstay of American automobile, truck, bus and agricultural tractor manufacturing.

A White Motor Company tanker truck. (Photo: National Park Service)A White Motor Company tanker truck. (Photo: National Park Service)

1924 white motor company wrecker. Jim Allen/FreightWaves @ Iowa 80 Trucking Museum

White Sewing Machine Company

The White Sewing Machine Company was started in 1858 by Thomas H. White and others in Templeton, Massachusetts. In 1866, the company was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. The company did...

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Daimler recalls 122,056 heavy-duty trucks for possible loss of electric power

Daimler Trucks North America is recalling 122,056 Freightliner and Western Star trucks because the battery terminal cable may break, resulting in a loss of electrical power followed by an engine stall.

The recalled vehicles are 2019-2022 Freightliner Cascadia P4, 2021 Western Star WH126, 2020 Western Star WJ121, and 2021-2022 Western Star 49X.

DTNA is unsure what led to two reports of engine shutdown it received in January and March. It suspects improper sealing of aluminum and brass, which are...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-recalls-122056-heavy-duty-trucks-for-possible-loss-of-electric-power

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