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Mack Trucks

Mack Trucks

Mack Trucks, Inc. is an American truckmanufacturingcompany and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack Brothers Company, it manufactured its first truck in 1905 and adopted its present name in 1922. Since 2000, Mack Trucks has been a subsidiary of Volvo, which purchased Mack and its former parent company Renault Véhicules Industriels.

Founded in Brooklyn in 1900, the company moved its headquarters to Allentown, Pennsylvania, five years later, in 1905, remaining in the town for over a century, moving again in 2009.

Mack vehicles are produced in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Virginia. Its powertrain products are produced in its Hagerstown, Maryland, plant. Mack also maintains additional assembly plants in facilities in Pennsylvania, Australia, and Venezuela. The company also once maintained plants in Winnsboro, South Carolina, Hayward, California, and Oakville, Ontario, which are now closed.