Big Truck Salesperson..

Looking to purchase a new freightliner 20' box truck for our business..
Anyone on here sell them? Would consider an F750 as well..

 

If you don't mind used I found some good deals at enterprise rent a truck. Mine was a lease return with only 30k miles and the savings was tremendous.

 

Buy the Ford. Freightliner is not built here anymore. I used to work there but am now laid-off.

 

Where do they make them now?

 

Their website indicates they are still making trucks in Portland and throughout the US.

http://www.freightlinertrucks.com/inside-freightliner/about-us.aspx

 

Seems to me they got in trouble and fined and part of the agreement was that they don't move the Portland operations out of the country, 3 years I believe. Why was that stipulation was written in? Not sure but I guess the prosecution smelled something.

 

Prolly got caught coping Kenworth's T2000 aero dynamic truck from many years ago.

 

Umm the M2 Business truck is made in Mt Holly NC. The Portland Plant was scheduled to be closed but will now manufactuer Western Star Trucks. The St Thomas Ontario Canada Sterling Plant is closing because the brand is being phased out.

http://www.daimler-trucksnorthamerica.com/inside/where-we-work-plants.aspx

 

The Freightliner Century Class and Cascadia are the ONLY heavy duty trucks that have ever been developed in a full sized wind tunnel. Daimler is number one in the world in heavy truck manufacturing so I doubt they copy anything from Pacar.

 

i worked at the Mt.Holly plant. There are roughly 125 people employed there now. Most ever employed at the plant was 3000. The medium duty trucks are made further south now. Below Texas

 

Big rig like you have is still built in the US, the business class/med duty are not. If it wasn`t for Coca-Cola, Mt.Holly would have shut the doors earlier this year. Coke insisted their trucks be built here and had a few other orders trickle in. Whichever contract ends first, Coke or F-liner employees, Mt.Holly will close. Unless a miracle happens. I started in 98 layoff went back to 82 or so.

 

Another reason to drink Diet Coke!:up:

 

You sure about that? You think Kenworth/Peterbuilt (the number one long haul truck) lifted the design and got it out before Freightliner did?

Here read this about the wind tunnel http://www.kenworth.com/brochures/FuelEfficiency.pdf

Here read this about the aerodynamic body:
http://www.kenworth.com/FuelEconomyWhitePaper.pdf (page 5)

 

Diet Coke also has the high caffeine level of all of the Coke products.

 

Yes sir!

 

Class 8 is long haul and Freightliner rules that market segment. Pacar ruled Premium Long Hood with Kenworth and Peterbilt. However for the last three quarters Freightliner has beat them at that as well.


Reprinted from Bulk Transporter Magazine


Daimler Trucks North America's strong performance in the United States Class 6/7 medium-duty commercial vehicle segments resulted in it surpassing its competitors in overall market share in 2007 for the first time in the company's history.

Continuing its growth trend, DTNA reported 31.5 percent of U.S. Class 6/7 market share, while Navistar International Corp. recorded 30.6 percent. DTNA increased its share by 3.5 percentage points, while International lost 6.9 percentage points in market share in 2007.

Data shows DTNA medium-duty market share was particularly strong for Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation, Thomas Built Buses, and the Freightliner Business Class M2.

DTNA also continued to be the leader in market share for Class 8 commercial vehicles, besting International by 14.6 percentage points and Paccar by 8.3 percentage points. Freightliner Trucks bested International in U.S. Class 8 by 5.1 percentage points.

 

Dude, i worked there for 11 years. Not long after the article you cite was published they started laying people off at the Mt.Holly plant that built the M2 business class. Over 1500 people out of work! That article means dick!

 

My comment on number 1 was not based on sales...it was based on the quality of the truck.

And its paCCar not paCar

 

But I read it on the internet, it must be true.