Freightliner Making Upgrades to 30,000 Early EGR Engines

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ANOVER, Germany — Freightliner LLC has begun a program to voluntarily upgrade 30,000 of the earliest engines that its Detroit Diesel Corp. subsidiary produced beginning with the 2003 model year to comply with new emissions rules in the United States.

Rainer Schmueckle, chief executive officer of Portland, Ore.-based Freightliner, revealed the overhaul program in an interview here during the International Automobile Association’s Commercial Vehicles Show.

He told Transport Topics his company would spend about $30 million replacing the coolers and piping of the earliest engines that employ exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology, which DDC and most other U.S. diesel engine manufacturers adopted to meet the tighter federal pollution standards that took effect starting in October 2002.

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