Daimler Truck

The Daimler Truck and Daimler Buses divisions include the eight vehicle brands BharatBenz, Freightliner, FUSO, Mercedes-Benz, RIZON, Setra, Thomas Built Buses and Western Star. Daimler Truck is the global market leader in the medium and heavy-duty truck segment with a gross vehicle weight of over 6 tons. In 2019, around 489,000 vehicles were delivered in this segment.^[3] Financial and mobility services are offered via the Daimler Truck Financial Services division.^[4]

Daimler Truck was established in 2019 as a subsidiary of Daimler AG. In February 2021, Daimler announced its planned to spin off Daimler Truck into a separate listed company.^[5][6] The spin-off was approved by its shareholders on 1 October 2021.^[7] Following this, Daimler Truck Holding AG was incorporated to manage assets owned by Daimler Truck AG, and Daimler AG retained 35% of shares in the new company, with 5% being transferred to its pension trust.^[8] A separate website for the Daimler Truck company was launched on December 1,^[9] and the company went public on 10 December.^[10]

On June 2 2025, Archion was established in Japan, and became operational on April 1 2026 to align with the Japanese fiscal year. Daimler Truck and Toyota, respectively the parent companies of Fuso and Hino, each own 25% of Archion.

On July 1, 2025, it became known that Daimler Truck was placed on Russia's sanctions list due to alleged deliveries to Ukraine.^[11]

• Mercedes-Benz - light, medium and heavy trucks, buses (brand in Germany)
• Freightliner - medium and heavy trucks, vans
• Western Star - heavy trucks
• Fuso - light, medium and heavy trucks, buses (brand in Japan)
• Thomas Built Buses - school buses
• Setra - buses
• BharatBenz - medium and heavy trucks, buses (brand in India)
• Detroit Diesel - medium and heavy-duty powertrain (brand in United States)
• TruckStore - used vehicles, financing, leasing, rental, warranty and service contracts, and buyback
• Fleetboard - telematics and connectivity
• Rizon - electric medium-duty trucks

Of the Daimler Group's total workforce of 298,683 at the end of 2018 (2017: 289,321), 82,953 (2016: 79,483) worked at the Daimler Trucks division, of which 30,447 (2017: 30,424) were employed in Germany and 16,647 in the U.S. (2017: 15,002). In 2019, revenue amounted to €40.2 billion at Daimler Trucks and €4.7 billion at Daimler Buses.^[12] Daimler Buses is a leading brand in its core markets of Europe, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, selling 30,888 vehicles worldwide in 2019.^[13]

In 2018, the most important sales market was the NAFTA countries with 37% followed by Asia with 32%, Western Europe (EU plus Norway and Switzerland) with 17%, and Latin America (excluding the NAFTA country of Mexico) with 7%.^[14]

Daimler Truck's subsidiary, Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), has actively lobbied the US government and to weaken climate regulations governing heavy-duty trucks. In the US, DTNA supported the second Trump administration's repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in 2025, resulting in the repeal of all GHG emissions regulation for heavy-duty trucks, in addition to the regulation of GHG emissions across the entire American economy.^[15][16] Earlier in 2025, DTNA Vice President of Product Integrity Sean Waters testified before the EPA and supported the EPA's proposed decision to cease regulation of GHGs, stating that "We support EPA efforts in these proceedings to restore the best reading of the Clean Air Act." ^[17] In August 2025, DTNA filed a lawsuit against California regulators to overturn the Clean Trucks Partnership, an agreement the company had voluntarily reached with regulators approximately two years prior, in which the DTNA agreed to increase its sales of zero-emission trucks in the state even if California's regulatory authority was repealed by the federal government.^[18]

Daimler Truck has a worldwide network of production plants and research centres. The following list is a description of all locations worldwide that include a Daimler Truck plant, including plants for the subsidiaries EvoBus, Daimler Trucks North America, Detroit Diesel, Freightliner Trucks, and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.^[19]