Severe Duty Report - January 2011

Two Companies, Working Hard to Make it Easy for Customers

Freightliner Trucks and Cummins Inc. are working together to make it easier for customers to get exactly the trucks they need for specific vocational applications. Asplundh Tree Expert Co. can attest to their success.

Freightliner Dealers and Body Builders Pool Vehicles for Win-Win

Described as a cultural shift for Freightliner Trucks and its dealers, the Freightliner Body Builder Pool Program facilitates a shorter delivery cycle for vocational trucks to end customers. With this program, body builders act more as suppliers to dealers than as competitors. And the pool program offers customers and dealers incentives from Freightliner and Daimler Truck Financial.

Spotlight On: Lower Colorado River Authority

With a service area that spans nearly 30,000 square miles of rough central Texas terrain, the Lower Colorado River Authority was looking for a tough truck to set concrete footings for large lattice towers as it developed and maintained its cross country energy grid.

Product Spotlight: Allison Transmissions

Freightliner's Allison Optimized Transmission package delivers unsurpassed efficient driveline protection and productivity with a five-year extended warranty.