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Western Star's 2025 Star Nation event.
Newsby Lauren FletcherAugust 13, 2025

Skill Meets Technology at the 2025 Star Nation Experience

The Star Nation Experience from Western Star tests skill, showcases safety tech, and celebrates the backbone of vocational trucking.

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2025 Freightliner Cascadia.
Articlesby Jack RobertsOctober 22, 2024

Test Drive: Freightliner's 5th Generation Cascadia Tractor

Freightliner's fifth generation Cascadia tractor is a study in evolution -- not transformation. And that's just the way DTNA wants it.

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Blue Freightliner tractor
Newsby Jack RobertsOctober 15, 2024

DTNA Rolls Out 5th Generation Cascadia Tractor

Just in time for ATA's Management Conference in Nashville, Daimler Truck North America rolled out the latest generation of its popular Cascadia Class 8 highway tractor.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJanuary 26, 2024

Western Star Adds Safety Features to its Vocational Trucks

Western Star is now including added safety features as standard equipment on its vocational trucks, the 47X and the 49X. Detroit Assurance Active Brake Assist and a backup safety system are now added.

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Newsby StaffMay 18, 2022

Detroit Adds Braking to Side Guard Assist

Active Side Guard Assist detects moving objects in the path of a right-hand turn at speeds below 12 mph and applies the brakes.

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Newsby StaffJune 3, 2021

Detroit Adds Industry-First Features to Suite of Safety Systems

Detroit has added active speed intervention, lane assist with automatic braking, and brake hold mode to the Detroit Assurance suite of safety systems.

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Articlesby StaffFebruary 26, 2020

HDT's 2020 Top 20 Products

HDT’s Top 20 products this year clearly illustrate how technology is increasingly being used to help address fleet issues such as maintenance, safety, productivity, and fuel economy.

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Articlesby Jim ParkJune 12, 2019

Test Drive: With Early Autonomous Tech, Drivers Are Still Required

Daimler’s optional Level 2 technologies, Lane Keep Assist and ACC to Zero, will make drivers’ jobs easier and likely a little safer — if they don’t abuse them. Jim Park reports on his experience with the latest Detroit technology on a Freightliner Cascadia.

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NewsMarch 5, 2018

Daimler Makes Collision Mitigation, Air Disc Brakes Standard on Cascadia

Daimler Trucks North America has announced that the Detroit Assurance 4.0 collision mitigation system and Meritor EX+L air disc brakes are standard on all new Freightliner Cascadia truck models.

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Videosby StaffJanuary 26, 2015

Ultimate Test Drive Video: Detroit Assurance - Fuel Economy

In part 2 of Equipment Editor Jim Park's test drive of the Detroit Assurance automatic safety systems, he explores the benefits of Intelligent Powertrain Management, which helps the truck operate in the most fuel-efficient manner possible.

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