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Truck of the Day : June 25, 2014; PEM '96 Freightliner C-120
Topic Started: Jun 25 2014, 12:06 AM (1,449 Views)
craftymore
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PEM's 1996 Freightliner C-120 is the truck for today.

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Freightliner Trucks is an American truck manufacturer, a division of Daimler Trucks North America LLC, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Daimler AG. The division is known mainly for the heavy duty class 8 diesel trucks it offers, as well as classes 5-7 trucks.


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Precision Engineered Models (PEM) was a brand sold by Hartoys back in the 1990s and was later acquired by Tonkin Replicas. This is one heavy model with a handful of nice details though by no means up to par with current offerings from Die-Cast Promotions or SpecCast.

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In 1991, after years of poor sales, parent company Daimler ended its sales of Mercedes-Benz medium-duty trucks in North America. In their place, Freightliner entered the medium-duty truck segment with the Business Class FL-Series. A downsized version of the FLC conventional, it used many cab components with the Mercedes-Benz LKN cabover adapted into a conventional. The first all-new entry in the medium-duty market in over a decade, the FL-Series met with success.

Another pronounced downturn in the industry's fortunes necessitated drastic measures to restore Freightliner to financial health, and Dr Dieter Zetsche, now the chairman of Daimler's Board of Management, was dispatched to lead the project as CEO. The Burnaby assembly plant was closed, replaced by a new facility in St. Thomas, Ontario. Cost reduction programs across the company restored profitability when the market rebounded.

Significantly, production also commenced in Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico, about 30 miles (48 km) outside Mexico City, in a plant owned by Daimler-Benz. At that time, the plant was also producing buses, Brazilian-designed medium-duty trucks, and compact Mercedes-Benz passenger cars.

The 1990s were a busy era for truck manufacturers in general, and for Freightliner in particular, under the leadership of flamboyant James L. Hebe, a former Kenworth sales executive who joined the company in 1989. During the decade, Freightliner made numerous acquisitions to further diversify itself:

1995 – Oshkosh Custom Chassis in Gaffney, South Carolina became Freightliner Custom Chassis, producing the underpinnings for walk-in vans used by companies such as UPS to deliver parcels and Cintas for uniform laundry services; diesel recreational vehicles; conventional school buses; and shuttle buses. The Oshkosh and Freightliner partnership has dissolved, and Oshkosh is no longer affiliated with Freightliner.[citation needed]

1996 – American LaFrance, a 130 year-old manufacturer of fire apparatus, was purchased; it was Mr. Hebe's first employer. LaFrance had fallen on hard times and was moribund at the time of the acquisition.

1997 – Sterling Trucks, a subdivision, was created as Freightliner acquired the product rights to the newly designed Ford Louisville/AeroMax Class 8 trucks from Ford Motor Company along with the North American production rights to the Ford Cargo. Intended primarily as vocational trucks, the Sterling product line borrowed its name from an early White Motor Company brand; it slotted between Freightliner and Western Star in the Daimler product line.

1998 – Thomas Built Buses, of High Point, North Carolina, was acquired; it was producer of all classes of school bus bodies, and forward control chassis.


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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Looks great to me! Especially with the trailer behind it!
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juantoo3
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Used to see a lot of Werner trucks on the road, so that is a familiar livery.

Very nice looking model! That is similar to, but a model year or two newer and a redesign (and pulling a refer trailer) of the one I used to drive cross country back in the mid-90s. (I love to say I made it to 47 states and 3 provinces of Canada, and was within ten miles or so of another Canadian province...I was so far out in Quebec I was well past the state of Maine, I had to learn some minimal French in a hurry!)

Enough about me, you have a very nice model here!
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mbx64
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Very nice!

I am actually a gargantuan tractor-trailer truck fan, but I do not have a lot of diecast models to back up that statement. Very nice photos, Zach!
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cody6268
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Before Freightliner purchased them, American LaFrance were owned by Kersey Manufacturing and made their apparatus about ten minutes away from me in Bluefield, Virginia. That's the main reason I'm so interested in classic fire apparatus today.

The full size tractor and trailer is a common sight on the highway.

I think this is a great truck and trailer.

When was this one made?

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Stampede
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Team Canada
Looks to be a great model! The detail on the real truck is translated quite well onto the model itself!

What scale is it?
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craftymore
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@ Cody - I'm guessing the late 90s or very early 00s.

@ Terence - It's 1/64 scale.
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Dean-o-mite
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I really like the truck and the livery. If this were at or near 1/87 scale to fit with all my other trucks, I'd be searching frantically for one.
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jurcpa
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very realistic and beauty,many thanks
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SeberHusky
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I would go with late 90's. Used to see these by the dozens heading from IN to TN.
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