Ford’s Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks are my favorite make of Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks.

Even when Ford was actively involved in this business, their Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks were more trustworthy than GM’s Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks. GM had sold their Class 8 truck division to Volvo in 1988, and had become the basis for Volvo Trucks’ North American business arm; and GM had exited the Medium-Duty truck market when they had discontinued their Class 4-7 GMT560 Kodiak & Top Kick trucks in 2009.

I wish that Ford had held onto their Medium & Heavy-Duty truck division rather than selling it to Daimler/Freightliner to become Sterling in 1996, and as a result of this sale to Daimler/Freightliner; would discontinue the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl and exit the Type C conventional School Bus market at the end of 1998. Freightliner would eventually develop their own FS-65 chassis & cowl and even later, the C2 chassis & cowl that serves as the one and only chassis that Thomas’s C2 conventional body that is fastened together by adhesive; is available on.

The reality is once Ford had sold their Medium & Heavy-Duty truck division to Daimler/Freightliner; they had held onto the F-Series Medium-Duty. And it seems like in the present day, the one and only Medium-Duty trucks that Ford builds these days; the F-Series Medium-Duty is doing as well as they heyday of Ford’s Medium & Heavy-Duty truck division with not only earlier generations of the F-Series Medium-Duty, but also the C-Series, L-Series, H-Series, W-Series, CLT-Series; and the Iveco-designed Ford Cargo.

Ford, America’s truck leader, has outfitted hard-working fleets with more F-650 and F-750 trucks in the first eight months of 2016 than all year in 2015.

Source: Ford’s Big Trucks Hauling in Big Sales: New 2016 F-650 and F-750 Trucks Have Best Year-to-Date Since 1997 | Ford Media Center