Name: Who Makes America's Semi-Trucks
Uploaded: 2022-12-29T10:00:33.000Z
Duration: 14 min 23 s
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This is Freightliner's flagship factory in

Cleveland, North Carolina. Freightliner is

a division of Daimler Trucks, the largest semi

truck manufacturer in America and one of the

There's something amazing about building a really

corporations to deliver value to the average

Anywhere from about 95000 to 284000 new semi trucks

As of late 2022, sales were on track to end up

On average, a semi with a sleeper cabin can cost

A fully loaded one can run above $200,000.

These are the companies that dominate the U.S.

Every item that arrives at your doorstep has been

Now the business is going through a period of

battery and hydrogen powered electric systems.

There is also a race to build trucks that can

But a lot of this change is being forced from

outside the ranks of the companies that have

You can credit Elon Musk with making trucking cool

. As polarizing as he can be, but they've had to

envelope and Elon Musk keeps making big, bold

transform an entire industry. Foul play has

The founder of the once-hyped hydrogen fuel

truck maker Nikola Motors has been convicted

truck startup TuSimple fired its CEO over

more-than-century-old Daimler are balancing

keeping their particular and often extremely

cost-sensitive customers happy in the present

while investing in technologies for which

This is one of my favorite stations in the

plant because this is where it actually starts

Heather Callahan is the director of logistics for

Carolina factory runs about 1.5 million square

feet. It has made about 800,000 trucks since it

You can see we are lowering the cab onto the

chassis. Almost every 10 minutes, a cab lowers

from the monorail and we marry it to the chassis.

And every truck is spec to that customer's needs.

Freightliner was founded in 1942 and was acquired

Freightliner. Daimler Trucks North America also

Truck makers sell their products through a

However, in the U.S., cars are usually bought

off dealer lots from a stocked inventory of

Semi trucks are usually ordered ahead and every

detail is customized to the customer's wants and

needs. And our customers are very particular about

Freightliner trucks have tens of thousands of

options. The length of the wheelbase where the

fuel tanks are located, how big the fuel tanks

are, all kinds of engine options, countless

options for the sleeping cab if there is one.

Freightliner's paint catalog has more than

This area of our factory is the cab line, and this

is really where the interior of the truck

We start with just the shell of the cab and from

We put in upholstery, specified again to that

customer. And as the cab tracks along on this

line, we also install the windshields and the

The truck is an extension of both a driver and a

company's brand, so they put their name on this

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