90's Corporation Truck

[RTGr]

at least a few had been made up until the 95-96 model year.

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Thank you, so i go to rebuild my WIM yo WIL!

[matt1982]

Been using this truck a while I must say its one of my favourites I dint even realize there was a wim model in this mod lol been using the wia model do you plan on doing the wim model a daycab like the wia has a day cab option

[EricF]

Thanks for keeping this mod going. If there was any notification of it going to Trucky mods, I must have missed it because I went to the old Gumroad link to see if there was a 1.46 update only to find the link/page was gone. I was worried the mod was abandoned. It's going back in my fleet now!

[TheOtherCorey]

I wasn't a huge fan of gumroad. I originally had it there so updates would be easy, and donation could happen, but when people stopped opening the update emails and started complaining that it wasn't updated, I knew I had to take it down. So trucky it is.

[IwantPETERBILT350]

Iv never heard of this truck.

[EricF]

White and GMC went in together in the latter half of the 80s as White-GMC. It wasn't a full merger, though; it was a co-marketing and manufacturing agreement to save costs. Autocar was owned by White by then, so there were versions of this cab with Autocar logos as well. Volvo stepped in and took a controlling interest in White (which was how they got their start in the heavy trucks market in North America) and eventually the whole operation became Volvo/GMC Heavy Trucks. GMC decided to bow out of the heavy truck market and the co-marketing agreement -- and that was how Volvo fully stepped into the North American market.

White, prior to the co-marketing with GMC, had a big chunk of the fleet market while GMC's market share was slowly shrinking. A lot of corporate fleets bought these trucks under various nameplates and model designations, with a wide range of engines and configurations. They were everywhere on US highways through the 90s, making their way from fleet to fleet as they aged. Grungy old examples were still running around in cheap leasing fleets and as starters for owner-operators just getting off the ground in the early 2000s. Not necessarily the prettiest trucks, but they were hard workers and a huge part of the trucking landscape a few decades ago. A lot of older drivers and truck enthusiasts still have a soft spot for 'em!

[TheOtherCorey]

Been using this truck a while I must say its one of my favourites I dint even realize there was a wim model in this mod lol been using the wia model do you plan on doing the wim model a daycab like the wia has a day cab option

I do plan to! I just need to work out fitment of the cab and a good frame length essentially. Than make all the accessories fit for it.

[Rocket455Man]

Hi!

When Volvo come back to US markets?

[TheOtherCorey]

Volvo has been in US markets for many years.

[kevink]

White and GMC went in together in the latter half of the 80s as White-GMC. It wasn't a full merger, though; it was a co-marketing and manufacturing agreement to save costs. Autocar was owned by White by then, so there were versions of this cab with Autocar logos as well. Volvo stepped in and took a controlling interest in White (which was how they got their start in the heavy trucks market in North America) and eventually the whole operation became Volvo/GMC Heavy Trucks. GMC decided to bow out of the heavy truck market and the co-marketing agreement -- and that was how Volvo fully stepped into the North American market.

White, prior to the co-marketing with GMC, had a big chunk of the fleet market while GMC's market share was slowly shrinking. A lot of corporate fleets bought these trucks under various nameplates and model designations, with a wide range of engines and configurations. They were everywhere on US highways through the 90s, making their way from fleet to fleet as they aged. Grungy old examples were still running around in cheap leasing fleets and as starters for owner-operators just getting off the ground in the early 2000s. Not necessarily the prettiest trucks, but they were hard workers and a huge part of the trucking landscape a few decades ago. A lot of older drivers and truck enthusiasts still have a soft spot for 'em!

As I understood it, White Motors was basically insolvent by 1981. Volvo stepped in and purchaesed WM assets that they needed to start making a play for the NA heavy truck market. Volvo-White was the legal name for Volvo's truck making entity until the late 80s. As the late 80s rolled around, General Motors was exploring sales of various divisions or businesses they didn't want to pursue (GM Truck & Bus, Electro Motive, Detroit Diesel, etc). The Class 8 truck market was among the casualties. GM and Volvo created Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp, with the published idea that it would remain a joint venture and that GM wasn't entirely abandoning Class 8 heavy trucks. This is where the White-GMC brand came from.

Of course as the early 90s dawned, GM was in bad shape and started winding down its investments in the joint venture. I think Volvo bought out whatever share GM had left in the company by 1998, renaming the company to Volvo Trucks North America.