Daimler Truck North America will build a manufacturing facility in the United States, adding to five plants across the Carolinas. It covers vocational and on-highway trucks, on flexible manufacturing systems that can build a broad range of vehicle configurations rather than specialise in one model. Construction starts late 2026, production runs from 2029, and thousands of jobs are expected over time. The location has not been chosen - the full announcement has the site criteria and the leadership statements.
Daimler Truck is adding US capacity for vocational and on-highway trucks on one site.
Daimler Truck has made trucks in America for more than 80 years, with five plants across the Carolinas and its headquarters and engineering hub in Portland, Oregon. Vocational trucks - the heavy-duty workhorses for construction and waste - and on-highway trucks that run the interstate.
Daimler Truck's chief executive Karin Radstrom calls it a way of responding faster and more flexibly to customer needs while unlocking growth, scale and efficiency. Daimler Truck is evaluating multiple candidate locations against four published criteria: a stable and efficient supply chain, a skilled workforce, transportation and logistics infrastructure, and a favourable business environment.
The final site, and the employment projections, come later. John O'Leary, who runs the North American business, is blunter about the reasoning: 'Our industry never stands still, and neither can we.'
The announcement also names partnerships with suppliers, educational institutions and community organisations - the detail that matters most to anyone selling into heavy truck manufacturing.
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