Western Star Trucks, Daimler Truck Group’s, pre-eminent builder of bespoke trucks built a unique blue and black truck, named Beauty and the Beast, for the Mid America Truck Show hosted in Louisville Kentucky earlier this year. The truck was built to showcase the company’s more than 40 year proud history of building custom-made Serious trucks.

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KEW Foundries, a Kimberley-based engineering works, founded in 1946 (previous incarnations of the company go back to 1893), has a rich heritage in the manufacture of steel works for the mines.

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The Freightliner and Mitsubishi FUSO divisions of Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) have ended the first four months of 2010 with a volume increase of more than 27 % over sales compared to year-to-date 2009. These sales of 731 units contribute to MBSA’s market dominance of 34,7 % market share year-to-date.

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KEW Foundries, a Kimberley-based engineering works, founded in 1946 (previous incarnations of the company go back to 1893), has a rich heritage in the manufacture of steel works for the mines.

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United Bulk is one of South Africa’s premium tanker-trailer hauliers, transporting food-grade products as well as Dangerous Goods such as liquid petroleum gas (LPG), ammonia gas, solvents and acids.

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If you are lucky enough to have an auto-electrician or are interested in the electrical health of your fleet, read on – it’s not as complex as you may think.

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Redford, USA - The engine manufacturer Detroit Diesel Corporation, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, recently delivered its first two trucks equipped with BlueTec exhaust treatment technology to customers for testing.

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Stuttgart – As expected, developments on the world’s commercial vehicle markets were quite varied last year. While the truck markets in Latin America developed positively in the first half of 2008, there was a downturn of the European market from the second half of the year, following years of strong growth. Meanwhile, the markets in the NAFTA region and Japan contracted once again.

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Zwartkop, Pretoria – Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA), leading manufacturer of light, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, announced that it now offers complete in-house after-sales support for Detroit Diesel Series 60 engines fitted to its market leading, long-haul American truck range, Freightliner.

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Zwartkop, Pretoria – Super Group, an integrated supply chain management business listed on the transport sector of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange recently took delivery of 65 Freightliner Argosy trucks to run their business the smart way on a national basis.

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The commercial vehicle division of Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) including Freightliner/Mitusbishi FUSO/Western Star ended 2008 on a high note with total sales of 9 167 units in the over 3.5 t GVM segments, giving a market share of 26.4%, an improvement of 3.2% over 2007.

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Zwartkop, Pretoria – In the African culture a man’s wealth is measured by the number of his cows. In the trucking industry however, a man’s wealth is measured by the number of his trucks.

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The commercial vehicle division have a long-standing tradition whereby they invite members of the media to a festive year-end luncheon to thank the media for their commitment and contribution to the industry, to interact and have fun.

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An all-new commercial vehicle facility has officially opened in Stormill, Roodepoort. The Sandown Commercial Vehicles Roodepoort facility specialises in both sales and service of Freightliner trucks, the local market leader amongst American commercial vehicle brands, and similarly the sales and service of the stalwart commercial vehicle brand from Japan, Mitsubishi FUSO.

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Redford, Michigan, US: Western Star Trucks celebrates its 40th anniversary at the end of 2007. Tracing its roots back to 1967, Western Star Trucks has a rich history producing rugged logging and mining vehicles that work in tough environments around the world.

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A new R28-million on-highway commercial vehicle facility for Freightliner and Mitsubishi FUSO brands was opened in Centurion this week. It's the only one of its kind for sales and service of these commercial vehicle brands.

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Exaarco Industrial Minerals at Glen Douglas near Vereeniging recently took delivery of a Western Star 4900SA off road truck fitted with a 20 000 litre water tanker specified and prepared by Liebherr Africa.

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Today sees the official opening of the all-new Rola Motors Commercial Vehicles Helderberg, a DaimlerChrysler market centre within the Rola Motor Group (RMG).

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Freightliner was the proud sponsor of the 47th South African Championship horseshow, held in Bloemfontein recently - the biggest outdoor Saddle Horse show in the world, with more than 1200 horses competing for the coveted South African Championship titles.

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Ikhwezi Trucktech (Pty) Ltd, the company that assembles all completely knocked down (CKD) commercial vehicles for DaimlerChrysler South Africa has, after being operational for five years, recently celebrated the building of the 10 000th Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle.

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Freightliner proudly announces the introduction of a 112-inch BBC (bumper-to-back-of-cab) version of the popular Columbia heavy-duty truck-tractor.

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DaimlerChrysler South Africa scooped all the top awards for their passenger car and commercial vehicle stands at a recognition breakfast held on the last day of the Auto Africa motor show at NASREC.

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Cargo Commercial Vehicles Germiston is a commercial vehicles Freightliner / Mitsubishi Fuso dealership, conveniently situated at the end of the M2 East. Since the dealership opened in July 2003, turnover in all departments, service, parts and new and pre-owned truck sales – Freightliner and Mitsubishi Fuso - has nearly trebled.

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Four Western Star 4900SA custom built truck tractors were recently supplied to specialised haulage contractor Transsand, for pulling end tip trailers. The trucks are hauling brick clay from a clay mining operation outside Pretoria to a nearby brick works.

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Mid-2006 sees DaimlerChrysler SA (DCSA) lead the commercial vehicle market in commercial vehicle truck sales with a 21,7 % overall market share, a 5 % volume increase year-to-date over 2005. The total market closed at 3 132 units, giving a 7,9 % increase over May 2005. DCSA retailed a total of 681 units for June.

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Stuttgart/Portland – Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the DaimlerChrysler Board of Management and responsible for the Mercedes Car Group, Andreas Renschler, Board of Management Member responsible for the Truck Group & Buses, Chris Patterson, President and CEO of Freightliner LLC, and more than 2,500 employees in Portland, Oregon, celebrated the 25th anniversary of Freightliner’s affiliation with DaimlerChrysler on 31 May.

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Freightliner/Mitsubishi Fuso Division of DaimlerChrysler SA has had an outstanding month of truck sales with volumes reaching 101 for Freightliner and 106 units for Mitsubishi Fuso for the month of May 2006.

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Freightliner Finance, a division of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services, recently financed interesting developments in the local road transport industry - they have agreed to financially back a new transport company, Ikcobrews.

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Western Star, a division of Freightliner within DaimlerChrysler South Africa, recently delivered two breakdown/recovery trucks to Van Wetten’s Breakdown Service in Mpumalanga. Van Wetten’s are a well established company in the Mpumalanga community and have been in business since the early 1950s. They currently operate from depots in Nelspruit, Middelburg, Ermelo and Malelane.

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For many years especially during the ADE era the South African truck market was dominated by a limited range of standard models of truck from a handful of manufacturers.

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Freightliner, a division of DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA) today celebrates 10 years of exciting and successful operations in southern Africa.

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Commercial Vehicles sales for 2005 have been phenomenal with overall sales of 27 413 units, which is a growth of 31.8% over 2004.

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Road trains are becoming a more common feature in the South African Mining landscape for the efficient transport of both raw and beneficiated minerals over distances between 5 and 100km.

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Durban-based Warden Cartage is a strong force in cross-border road transport, specialising in the transportation of fuel, solvents and chemicals from South African oil company depots with a lot of it going to cross-border bulk depots.

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Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) supplies approximately 25% of the worlds pigment and welding rod markets, 25% of the demand for iron for ductile iron castings, and a quarter of the world market for zircon, used in the production of ceramic tile and sanitary ware. Western Star trucks and Unitrans are there as RBM business partners in supplying these world markets.

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April 2004
PORTLAND, OREGON...Freightliner LLC today announced the opening of an advanced transportation research facility to study the aerodynamics of heavy- and medium-duty vehicles. Located near the company's headquarters here, the new Freightliner Wind Tunnel accommodates a full-sized heavy-duty truck.

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March 2003
The Freightliner/MFTB division at DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA) recently delivered its first Freightliner Argosy 90 with Cummins power to Zimbulk cc.

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Freightliner LLC, the U.S. truck subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler AG, is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2002. The company is marking the occasion with a large number of events.

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The Freightliner Division at DaimlerChrysler South Africa has introduced a new product for transmissions called SmartShift. The new SmartShift system provides a convenient driver interface for the new automated mechanical transmissions available in the market.

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The Freightliner Division of DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA) has introduced the Western Star range of off-highway haul trucks to the South African mining industry. Western Star specializes in logging, mining, oil-field and other severe duty trucks.

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When the Freightliner heads off to an off-road race, inevitably located well off the beaten track, it does so with precious cargo on board.

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There’s an awesome new vehicle on the off-road scene in South Africa. And no, we’re not referring here to the mighty ex-Dakar Pajero. It’s a massive Freightliner truck. And this beautiful Argosy is causing a real stir.

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Freightliner Trucks is introducing the new Coronado conventional-cab truck into the market. In the American market the new flagship is aimed at demanding owner-drivers who have the highest expectations of their trucks in terms of comfort, design, performance, safety and economy.

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DaimlerChrysler South Africa has announced that the McCarthy Retail Group has secured the Freightliner franchise and that McCarthy will start selling and servicing Freightliner custom built trucks from December 1, 2000.
Mr. Geoff du Plessis, Management Board Member for commercial vehicles at DaimlerChrysler SA said that he is very excited by this move and that this will strengthen Freightliner’s market share in the heavy commercial vehicle segment in Southern Africa.

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The big American is looking at a record yearDaimlerChrysler's Freightliner brand of American trucks has always been one of the automotive giantess's big performers and now the South African operation is building on that winning heritage. Freightliner trucks have been one of the biggest local winners in the heavy commercial vehicle stakes this year and its share of this market segment over 16 tonnes is already up by 3 percent compared to the same period last year.

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Freightliner was not 'chicken'' to reconsider the (s)pecking orders of ten FLB 75's in operation with Unitrans Rustenburg on one of the country's largest chicken (transport) runs.

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John Syllas - Botswana Transport These FLB 75's are owned by Unitrans but run under contract to John Syllas - Botswana Transport. This fleet of ten (10) Freightliners are the first Freightliners in Botswana carrying copper from Francistown to Selibe Phikwe.

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DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA) has just launched a Freightliner commercial vehicle that will not only supply in the growing local demand for customised trucks in the American mould, but also has a host of new technology features not seen on local trucks before. In addition to its long distance hauling pedigree, the new Argosy has a manoeuvrability in city environments that is attributed to its tight turning radius and excellent handling characteristics.

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