everyone please reread today's PR:
the part about oem with Freightliner. This is who freightliner is:
An affiliate company of Freightliner LLC under Daimler’s NAFTA commercial vehicles organization, Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) is the leading manufacturer of on-highway medium- and heavy-duty diesel engines for the commercial truck market. DDC is engaged in the design, manufacture, sale and service of these products, in addition to supporting alternative fuel engines and hybrid engine strategies for the marketplace. Offering a complete product line up from 170 to 515 horsepower for the on-highway market, DDC supplies Series 60 engines on a worldwide basis and Mercedes-Benz engines in North America.
The Sterling® nameplate has come to represent work trucks which are tough, rugged and dependable. Created for regional hauling and vocational applications such as construction, snowplowing, refuse collection, towing and municipal and service uses, these vehicles are engineered to perform under the most varied conditions.
Sterling Truck Corporation is the only OEM to manufacture a full line of Class 3-8 trucks. Customers count on Sterling trucks every day to help them deliver freight across North America. But, Sterling trucks are also built to perform jobs beyond simply transporting goods. They can be configured to serve such diverse applications as concrete mixers, dump trucks, cranes, street sweepers, and fire and emergency vehicles. The Sterling family includes the A-Line of on-highway trucks, the Set-Back L-Line of highway or off-road tractors, and the Sterling Set-Forward which is perfect for the dump, utility and government/municipality markets. Sterling also has the medium-duty Acterra, the LCOE Sterling 360 for urban use, and the new Sterling Bullet, a truck ideally suited for construction, utility, government/municipality, and P&D applications.
Employees at Thomas Built Buses realize that the vehicles they make will carry the most precious cargo. That's why they've dedicated themselves to creating the safest, most innovative buses on the market. For nearly 90 years, the Thomas name has been associated with innovative design, reliability and safety.
Headquartered in High Point, N.C., Thomas Built Buses is the leading school bus manufacturer in North American. More than one-third of the school buses sold in the U.S. and Canada are manufactured by Thomas Built. The company also manufactures light- and medium-duty buses for commercial transit and specialty markets.
Since 1984, Freightliner LLC has operated a separate business unit that sells trucks directly to the U.S. and Canadian military and a number of federal agencies.
The U.S. Army counts on Freightliner's Government Vehicles division for custom-built vehicles with military-specific modifications. These trucks transport bulk goods and light construction equipment.
The Government Vehicles division also sells a broad range of Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star trucks to both U.S. and Canadian federal agencies. The division ensures that all governmental requirements and regulations are followed when submitting bids and fulfilling orders for the federal government.
This is not a recommendation to buy or sell... just IMO
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