How freightliners are made

America needs high taxes to support one World government with America providing order and peace all over the world.
I am ex Navy and America is the worlds police. We spend 10 times more than all our adversaries combined. What other country could afford 100 million dollar airplane F-35.

 

Back to the original topic. Any company that goes to the expense of designing a new class 8 truck platform is going to have target customers and volumes in mind. And one of those targets is cost. The engineering, both the truck itself and methods used to assemble it are integral to the entire package. All the manufacturers have their engineering methods and vendors used,some are better than others depending on the intended outcome and cost
Are you going to support the product for 10, 15, 20 or more years? Is your customer willing to pay for that cost (think airliner). lots of overhead involved in keeping parts on the shelf for a 20 year old truck.
Some people have the opinion that x truck is better than y. That arguement will go on forever.
Do you make money with it should be the only question that has to be answered.

 

It all makes sense now I was arguing with a newb that assumes he's seen it all but is still getting his feet wet with his first truck. Next thing to come out on here will probably be that he learned everything he knows from his swift driver trainer

 

I have for my sound system at home. my amp, surround processor, speakers, power conditioner surge protector and all cables are made in America, my CD burner and DVD player are not.

 

Especially when it comes to stuff like quality tools. I will scour craigslist for used snap on stuff or similar before I go buy new Chinese garbage elsewhere

 

Swish, all the jobs go to Mexico.

History has a way of changing, but the American people demanded the then Democrat candidate, Bill Clinton sign NAFTA, or they weren't going to vote for him.
He agreed to support it and was called a flip flopper by the Labor Unions, Bill won, signed NAFTA and the jobs left.

 

Does kw have a plant in Mexico ..?