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Freightliner Custom Chassis Delivers 50,000th Chassis to UPS

UPS and FCCC celebrate the 50,000th chassis delivered to UPS. Photo courtesy of FCCC

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A two-decade partnership among two of the most trusted and respected names in the work-truck and parcel-delivery industries reached a major milestone, as Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. (FCCC) delivered its 50,000th chassis to UPS.

Leaders from UPS and FCCC were on hand at FCCC headquarters in Gaffney, S.C., to mark the official delivery of the milestone chassis, which was specially branded and displayed for the event. Roger Nielsen, president and CEO of FCCC parent company Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA), was on hand with other DTNA leaders for the celebration, along with elected officials and civic leaders from Gaffney and Cherokee County.

FCCC began its partnership with UPS in 1996, delivering more than 600 units of its legendary MT-45 chassis that first year. FCCC has delivered more than 1,000 chassis in a year to UPS 13 times since 1996, with a peak of more than 6,000 in 2015.

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(L-R) Carlton Rose of UPS, Roger Nielsen of DTNA; Rick Jordan of UPS, Billy Benson of UPS, Mike Casteel of UPS, and Jeff Sather of FCCC stand behind the autographed 50,000th UPS chassis, an MT-45 model. Photo courtesy of FCCC 

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While more than half of the 50,000 chassis delivered to UPS have been either gas- or diesel-powered, FCCC and UPS have long developed and deployed a range of alternative-fuel products including hybrid-electric, hydraulic hybrid, electric, compressed natural gas (CNG), and propane autogas.

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Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage

Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage

The Israeli military on Thursday said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date. Israel said the targets of the strikes, its largest in Syria since the 1973 war, included weapons storage, logistics sites and intelligence centers used by elite Iranian forces in Syria. It also said it destroyed several Syrian air-defense systems after coming under heavy fire and that none of its warplanes were hit.


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