20 American Truck Brands That VANISHED — And What Killed Each One

At their peak, American truck factories stretched from coast to coast, from Cleveland and Chicago to Detroit, Lansing, Cortland, and Oakland. Hundreds of brands were building everything from one-ton delivery wagons to fifty-ton off-highway haulers. However, of those hundreds, how many are still standing today? Seven. That's it. Seven companies now control ninety-nine point nine percent of all heavy-duty truck sales in the United States. So what happened to the rest? These are twenty American truck brands that vanished, and what killed each one.