For quite some time, automotive marketing people have been labeling fresh products “all-new” when they aren’t. Major parts—usually including the powertrain—are carryovers. But Western Star’s 49X ...

INDIANAPOLIS. Three engine offerings power Western Star’s newest vocation truck, the Class 8 4700. The truck, introduced here at NTEA’s Work Truck Show, joins the company’s 4900 and 6900 models to ...

Modern vocational trucks seem to be getting more compact. Compared to traditional long-nose conventionals, most of the dump trucks I see in Ohio have shorter hoods that slope rakishly toward the ...

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has revealed the Western Star 49X vocational truck, which retains the brand’s tried-and-true toughness while integrating the safety-enhancing Detroit Assurance 5.0 ...

Western Star’s newest vocational chassis, the 47X – introduced last week by Daimler Trucks North America – is more than a scaled down version of the 49X. While the 49X, introduced a year ago, is ...

If you’ve been to Michigan you’ve seen multi-axle “trains” trundling up and down the highways. With gross weights of up to 76 tons, they’re lessons in productivity that many other states could learn ...

Western Star's overhaul of its vocational line continued this week with the debut of the all-new 47X. With a standard 111.6" bumper-to-back-of cab (BBC), the 47X will usher out the Western Star 4700, ...

Work trucks traditionally have been all about function over form, rarely getting the focus and attention to detail of their on-highway counterparts. A vocational tractor is a tool like any other, and ...

Vocational truck design usually doesn’t get the attention to detail, certainly a focus on in-cab pampering, that highway truck design gets. Western Star stepped out of that practice when it redesigned ...

Based in Graham, NC, Buckner Companies is one of the nation’s foremost crane, steel and pre-cast erection and industrial rigging firms. Typically, it has 75 to 80 cranes on jobs throughout the ...

Two separate recalls from Daimler Trucks North America include more than 200 Freightliner and Western Star trucks, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration documents. The largest of ...