What truck company is 100% American?

None. Better stick to McDonalds, maybe on the french fry machine, since I believe that they might get some of their beef from Austraila.

 

Globalization means there's few thoroughly all-American big company nowadays. How would you define it anyway? All American workers? Owners / stockholders? Factory locations? Equipments at the factory? Parts source?

 

a 1980 Marmon.

Have at it.. lol

 

I think, though it was a pretty garbled attempt at communication, that our hero was referring to the mechanical content of the vehicle as being 100% American made.

I admit, I find it hard to have an image of a driver who picks up a trailer, and during the pre trip he finds a Michelin tire and immediately starts blowing his last three meals all over the parking lot......

Or, he picks up a new shiny American made truck, and finda a Sony, or Panasonic, or Sanyo radio inside the cab, and immediately he stains his underwear in multiple contrasting colors as a reaction......

Or a driver who discovers that the halogen headlight bulbs in his truck were made in Canada, and he is forced to write a short note and then slits his wrists as he sits there in the truck, overwhelmed by the pure foreignness of the environment around him.

We have long had a policy here that there are no dumb questions, but it is a strong possibility that we will have to take that policy under review as a result of the initial post in this thread.

 

I appreciate the updates anyone can make to this post.

Twenty-eight years ago, the dramatic departure from rate regulation left a big mark on the trucking industry. As the economy weakened, truck manufacturers fell apart. Freightliner became vulnerable due to their gauranteed trade-in prices. They were bought by DaimlerBenz. Freightliner also owns Western Star now of Portland, OR. Freightliner bought Ford's Heavy Truck Division in 1997, moved it to Canada and named it Sterling. DaimlerChrysler Powersystems also owns Detroit Diesel.
Autocar was purchased by White in 1953. White Motor filed for bankruptcy, later to be sold to Volvo in 1981. GMC’s truck division was acquired by Volvo/White. Mack was sold to Renault. International Harvester entered what would become a 20-year financial struggle. Only Oshkosh and PACCAR managed to remain stable.
The only American truck manufacturer to consistently make money is PACCAR (formerly known as Pacific Car and Foundry, a manufacturer of rail cars). PACCAR manufactures Peterbilts and Kenworths. PACCAR also owns DAF in the Netherlands, and Leyland in Great Britian.
The Volvo Group, of course, manufacturers Volvo trucks. They sold their car manufacturing to Ford in 1999, the same year they invested in Petro Stopping Centers. Volvo purchased Mack Trucks in 2000, and they own Renault Trucks.

Autocar was purchased by White in 1953. In 2001, Grand Vehicle Works Holdings bought Autocar from Volvo.

Hendricksons were being built by Valley Truck Parts in Wyoming, MI. They had an International cab. You can still order a custom built Hendrickson, but the cost is prohibitive.

Manufacturers are forming alliances with engine companies, signaling the death of component spec’ing. We are growing ever closer to a monopoly of truck manufacturers controlled by foreign interests and closely aligned with engine manufacturers. The American truck purchaser is being left with fewer and fewer choices.

 

Regardless of ownership, global content in vehicles is a common thing, and has been for many years. back in 89, I bought a new Dodge P/U with the Cummins in it, and it was the vehicle listed as having the highest US made content, ranking in at 98% American. Last ranking I saw for them the US made content was under 60% a year or two ago on the same vehicle.

There are many cross agreements with other parts makers and not all of them are domestic. Many companies in canada make parts for US cars, and technically, regardless of how we feel about our Canadian brethren, those are foreign parts as well. It is not 1952, where a car or truck produced in America has 100% US content. The new Detroit diesel engine is designed to be sold world wide, the Allison "World" transmission is not named because they think it is a cool designation, and the new IH engine is produced in conjunction with M.A.N. from over in Germany.

It's a global economy and claiming that you won't drive anything unless it's 100% American made means you will do a lot of walking to your job at McDonalds.

 

And can you be sure you'll be working with 100% American-made equipments there? No Chinese-made fryers and stuffs?

In that Harley-Davidson thread somewhere in this forum, someone mentioned that even Harleys have many foreign parts nowadays. Welcome to the new world!