Heavy Duty Trucking, December 2020
TEST DRIVE Western Stars head turning workhouse hits the highway and off highway More than just a new truck the Western Star 49X signals a new way forward for Daimlers vocational lineup By Jack Roberts Senior Editor jroberts@ truckinginfo com aimler executives werent happy Youd think they would be given that the companys North D American trucks division is riding a Class 8 on highway market share wave that would be the envy of any global corporation But market share domination comes at a cost And in the case of DTNA that price was in the words of one engineer an unacceptable showing in the vocational side of the Class 8 market Our goal is to be the market share leader in the North American trucking industry says Tim Piete lead engineer DTNA And to do that it was clear that we needed to up our vocational game considerably The result is the all new Western Star 49X Class 8 vocational truck a truck that Piete Western Stars new 49X Class 8 truck showcases DTNAs vision for a new take on its vocational product line who served as the lead design engineer on the six year project says is a major step forward in terms of how DTNA will approach the North American vocational truck market in the future We will be bringing a lot of the lessons weve learned from our hugely successful on highway side of the business to our vocational products This will include major HDT DECEMBER 2020 26 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM PHOTOS JACK ROBERTS
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