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San Diego,CAL,USA -Today's Trucking, by Deborah Lockridge -Oct 10, 2014: -- In December 2012, Daimler Trucks North America, announced it would invest $120 million in facilities to build the new Detroit DT12 automated manual transmission in the United States (of A.)... Initially the DT12 would be imported from Germany, but the Detroit plant was scheduled to be up and running by 2015 with an initial capacity of 30,000 transmissions a year. A modular system would allow the company to double that capacity relatively easily when warranted... That expansion may come sooner than they thought. During a briefing with reporters this week during the ATA conference, company officials said the success of the transmission had exceeded even their own optimistic expectations... Of course, there were AMTs for heavy-duty trucks on the market long before the introduction of the Detroit DT12, including ones from Eaton, Mack and Volvo. Volvo and Mack led the charge for vertically integrated powertrain that were optimized for fuel efficiency...
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