BELLEVUE, WA — PACCAR and Cummins have announced an agreement for the Cummins’ 6- and 8-liter engines to be installed exclusively in Peterbilt and Kenworth’s North American conventional medium-duty commercial vehicles, effective Jan. 1, 2007. The two companies are developing proprietary configurations for the engines, which will be badged as PACCAR engines.

“This agreement is a natural extension of the engine collaboration, which DAF and Cummins have had in Europe for seven years,” said Tom Plimpton, PACCAR president. The Cummins 4- and 6-liter engines, badged as PACCAR, are exclusive in the DAF LF product. The DAF LF is the leading light-duty commercial vehicle in the U.K. marketplace and has approximately ten percent of the European market. Plimpton added, “This North American agreement enables PACCAR to compete on a comparable basis with our competitors, who have their own proprietary medium-duty engines. Additionally, this agreement will significantly reduce the cost of homologating multiple 2007 EPA compliant engines in our chassis.”

Peterbilt and Kenworth will continue to offer their customers a choice of engines in their Class 8 vehicles.

For more information, visit: cummins.com

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