Freightliner Head Says ’07 Engine Tests to Begin Soon

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AS VEGAS — North America’s leading truck maker, Freightliner LLC, will begin “in the next few weeks” road testing of engines built to meet 2007 federal emissions regulations, Chief Executive Officer Rainer Schmueckle said.

Freightliner’s goal was to accumulate “several million miles of testing” using various combinations of vehicles and engines before the engines go into mass production, he said.

Schmueckle also said the company was on schedule to roll out a successor to its Century and Columbia models in 2007.

Schmueckle said in an interview here with Transport Topics Oct. 4 that Freightliner, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler AG, would do its initial testing of Series 60 engines from Detroit Diesel Corp., another Daimler company, and other models from Caterpillar Inc. using its own fleet of trucks.

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