Daimler Truck

Daimler Truck AG (holding company legal name Daimler

Truck Holding AG) is one of the world's largest commercial
Daimler Truck Holding AG
vehicle manufacturers, with over 35 main locations worldwide and
approximately 100,000 employees. Daimler Truck AG is
headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. It was part
of Daimler AG from November 2019 to December 2021.[1]

Contents
History
Daimler Truck AG facilities
Brands
Type Public
Finances
Traded as FWB: DTG (https://
Locations (new) www.boerse-frankf
Locations urt.de/equity/DE00
Daimler Buses 0DTR0CK8)
Daimler Truck Industry Automotive

References Predecessor Daimler AG's

heavy commercial
External links
vehicle operations
Founded 1 November 2019
History Stuttgart
Headquarters Leinfelden-
Daimler Truck was established in 2019. In February 2021, Echterdingen,
Daimler said it planned to spin off Daimler Truck into a separate Germany
listed company.[2][3] The spin-off was approved by its Key people Martin Daum
shareholders on 1 October 2021.[4] Following this, Daimler Truck (Chairman)
Holding AG was incorporated to manage assets owned by Products Trucks · buses
Daimler Truck AG, and Daimler AG retained 35% of shares in a
Brands Mercedes-Benz
new company, with 5% being transferred to its pension trust.[5] A
separate website of Daimler Truck company was launched on 1 Services Financial
December,[6] and the company went public on 10 December.[7] Revenue €44.9 billion (2019)
Owner Mercedes-Benz
In addition to Mercedes-Benz trucks, Freightliner, Western Star,
Group (35%)
BharatBenz, Thomas Built Buses and Mitsubishi Fuso brands
(2019–21) [1]
belong to the Daimler Trucks. In 2018, the most important sales
market was the NAFTA countries with 37% followed by Asia Number of 100,000 (2019)
with 32%, Western Europe (EU plus Norway and Switzerland) employees
with 17%, and Latin America (excluding the NAFTA country of Subsidiaries Daimler Truck
Mexico) with 7%.[8] North America
Daimer India
Website daimlertruck.com
In 2018, the Daimler Buses division of Daimler Truck maintained (https://www.daimle
market leadership in its core markets of Europe, Mexico, Brazil, rtruck.com/en/)
and Argentina, selling 30,888 vehicles worldwide. In addition to
Mercedes-Benz buses, Daimler Buses includes BharatBenz Buses, Mitsubishi Fuso Buses, and Setra.[9]

Brands
Mercedes-Benz: light, medium and heavy trucks, buses
Freightliner: medium and heavy trucks, vans
Western Star: heavy trucks
Thomas Built Buses: school buses
Fuso: light, medium and heavy duty trucks
BharatBenz: Truck brand in India
TruckStore: used vehicles, financing, leasing, rental, warranty and service contracts, and
buyback
Setra: buses
Fleetboard: telematics and Connectivity
Detroit Diesel: medium- and heavy-duty powertrain

Finances
Of the Daimler Group's total workforce of 298,683 at the end of 2018 (2017: 289,321), 82,953 (2016:
79,483) worked at the Daimler Trucks division, of which 30,447 (2017: 30,424) were employed in
Germany and 16,647 in the U.S. (2017: 15,002). In 2019, revenue amounted to €40.2 billion at Daimler
Trucks and €4.7 billion at Daimler Buses.[10]

Locations (new)
Daimler Truck has a worldwide network of production plants and research centers. The following list is a
description of all locations worldwide that include a Daimler Truck plant, including plants for the
subsidiaries EvoBus, Daimler Trucks North America, Detroit Diesel, Freightliner Trucks and Mitsubishi
Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.
 City Country Purpose Employees[a] Plant area

Aikawa Japan Production of transmission parts 267 —

Aksaray Turkey
Atego, Axor, Actros & Unimog
1,737 560,000 m2
Research and development (6,000,000 sq ft)
South
Atlantis Foundry — —
Africa
Auman trucks (assembly)
229,862 m2
Beijing China Four-cylinder engines (production & 8,878
(2,474,210 sq ft)
assembly), six-cylinder engines (assembly)
Mercedes-Benz Research and
Bengaluru India 2900 N/A
Development[11]

Berlin Germany
Various engines, components, transmission
2,538 501,502 m2
parts and fuel systems (5,398,120 sq ft)
Trucks (LDT, MDT, HDT) under BharatBenz,
1,600,000 m2
Chennai India Mercedes Benz and Fuso brands 2,540
(17,000,000 sq ft)
Buses under BharatBenz
Freightliner class 8 truck models (Cascadia,
Cleveland,
USA Century Class S/T, Columbia, and Argosy 1,837 —
North Carolina
(cab over models)).
Detroit,
USA Engines, transmissions, axle assembly 2,164 —
Michigan
Transit-, interurban-, and mobility buses and
Dortmund Germany 268 —
coaches

Ebina Japan
Fuso trucks, various bodies
430 83,000 m2
Chassis development (890,000 sq ft)
Gaffney, Chassis for vans, school buses, shuttle
USA 542 —
South Carolina buses and motor homes

Gaggenau Germany
Manual and automatic transmissions, axles,
6,280 460,000 m2
torque converters & pressed parts (5,000,000 sq ft)

42,709 m2
García Mexico Bus chassis assembly 4000
(459,720 sq ft)[12]
Gastonia,
USA Parts production 1,262 —
North Carolina
Axles and axle components, steering
331,000 m2
Hamburg Germany columns, components for exhaust emission 2,752
(3,560,000 sq ft)
technology and lightweight structural parts
High Point, School buses (assembly)
USA 1,316 —
North Carolina Research and development
Czech
Holýšov Bus body components and -segments 360 —
Republic
Body shop, cathodic dip painting, paint shop
Istanbul-
Turkey Transit- and interurban buses and coaches 4,421 —
Hoşdere
(assembly)
Jakarta Indonesia Buses — —
Accelo & Actros
Juiz de Fora Brazil 926 —
(assembly)

Kassel Germany Axles, drive shafts & other components 2,820 435,873 m2
(4,691,700 sq ft)
Kawasaki Japan Fuso head office functions 4,670 —
(Research and development, production of
engines, axles & transmissions; LDT, MDT,
HDT)
Kirchheim EvoBus corporate headquarters
Germany 120 —
unter Teck Sales

Kölleda Germany Three- and four-cylinder engines 914 417,434 m2

(4,493,220 sq ft)
Ligny-en- Transit buses & coaches
France 375 —
Barrois (Assembly)
Logan
Township, USA Fuso — —
New Jersey
Transit-, intercity buses and coaches (Body
Mannheim Germany 3,301 —
shop, cathodic dip painting, assembly)
Foundry, engines (production &
898,654 m2
Mannheim Germany remanufacturing) and green technology 5,113
(9,673,030 sq ft)
engines)
Molsheim France Customization of special purpose trucks 527 —
Mount Holly,
USA Freightliner Business Class M2 assembly 1,460 —
North Carolina
Transit- and interurban buses & coaches
Neu-Ulm Germany 3,578 —
(Paint shop and assembly)
Company Headquarters
Portland,
USA Truck assembly 4,590 —
Oregon
Research and development
Sakura Japan Fuso proving ground & test track 384 —
Saltillo Mexico Freightliner Cascadia 2,972 —
Sámano-
Castro Spain Chassis 246 —
Urdiales
Freightliner assembly (Business Class M2,
Santiago
Mexico FLD Series, Century Class, Columbia & 1,610 —
Tianguistenco
Coronado)
Entire Latin American truck product range
São Bernardo
Brazil Engines, axles, transmissions, bus chassis 12,788 —
do Campo
Research and development
Engines, axles, transmissions & other
Stuttgart Germany
components
17,973 2,060,045 m2
Pre-commissioning foundry and forge (22,174,140 sq ft)
Research and development
Refurbishing of engines, transmissions and
Toluca Mexico — —
other components
Small, medium and large buses
Toyama Japan 646 —
Product development

Tramagal Portugal Fuso Canter 307 39,900 m2

(429,000 sq ft)
Wanaherang,
Buses, Mercedes-Benz Axor
Gunung Putri, Indonesia — —
(Assembly and exhaust parts production)
Bogor
Wörth am Germany Actros, Antos, Arocs, Axor, Atego, Econic, 11,741 —
 Rhein Unimog, Zetros

a. As of December 2013

Locations
The Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses locations worldwide or their subsidiaries are located in Germany,
Turkey, Colombia, France, Portugal, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Africa and
India.[13]

Daimler Buses
India
Argentina
Chennai
Buenos Aires
Indonesia
Brazil
Jakarta
São Bernardo do Campo
Mexico
Colombia
Monterrey
Funza
South Africa
Czechia
East London, Eastern Cape
Holýšov
Spain
France
Sámano
Ligny-en-Barrois
Turkey
Germany
Istanbul
Neu-Ulm
Mannheim

Daimler Truck

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Brazil

São Bernardo do Campo

Juiz de Fora

France
 Molsheim

Germany

Stuttgart
Wörth am Rhein
Mannheim
Gaggenau
Kassel

India

Chennai
Bengaluru

Japan

Kawasaki
Kitsuregawa, Tochigi
Nakatsu, Ōita

Mexico

Saltillo
Santiago Tianguistenco

Portugal

Tramagal

Russia

Naberezhnye Chelny

United States

Cleveland, North Carolina

Gastonia, North Carolina
High Point, North Carolina
Mount Holly, North Carolina
Portland, Oregon
Redford, Michigan
Gaffney, South Carolina

Turkey

Aksaray

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External links
Official website (https://www.daimlertruck.com/)

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