Every truck that runs America's roads.
Specs, engines and history for every US commercial truck, Class 3 to 8 — and Mike, the free AI consultant, to help you diagnose yours and find the right part.
209 models
America's best-selling Class 8 truck.
The do-everything medium-duty workhorse.
Medium-duty cab, heavy-duty muscle.
Set-back-axle vocational all-rounder.
Set-forward axle brute for the worst jobs.
Freightliner's big-chrome flagship of its era.
The workhorse before the Cascadia.
Zero-tailpipe Class 8, in production.
The aero workhorse that hauled Freightliner into the modern era.
The long-nosed, chrome-laden icon every owner-operator wanted in the mirror.
Freightliner's first clean-sheet aero Class 8 conventional in over two decades.
The last great American cabover to roam the interstate.
The low-entry cab built from the wheels up for the garbage route.
Job-site tough, weight-optimized, and built to be upfit your way.
Thinking outside the box truck — the electric evolution of America's best-selling medium-duty.
The medium-duty original that put Freightliner in the local-delivery business.
Step in, see everything, and own the curb on the waste route.
The chassis under America's parcel and bread-truck fleets.
The aerodynamic flagship of the fleet world.
The modern heir to the legendary 389.
The chrome king. The owner-operator icon.
The legend that started the long-hood cult.
Built to take a beating on the job site.
Low-entry cabover purpose-built for trash routes.
Peterbilt style, medium-duty practicality.
Set-forward / set-back vocational siblings.
Cabover electric for quiet city routes.
The original long-hood legend that built the Peterbilt mystique.
The aero-sloped conventional that bridged classic and modern Peterbilt.
The set-back-axle workhorse for heavy vocational duty.
Peterbilt's last great cabover, aerodynamic and unmistakable.
Peterbilt's full-aero long-haul cruiser of the 2000s.
The aero hood on the traditional Peterbilt cab.
The short-BBC aero conventional for tight, weight-sensitive runs.
The wide-cab aero flagship that paved the way for the 579.
The low-cab-forward refuse king that ruled the route for three decades.
Class 8 muscle in a medium-duty cab for the toughest upfits.
The right-sized non-CDL Class 5/6 workhorse for the daily grind.
Peterbilt's nimble non-CDL Class 5 city-work truck.
Peterbilt's first medium-duty conventional, built to adapt to anything.
The medium-duty conventional that borrowed big-rig style.
The dependable Class 6/7 workhorse configured your way.
The Class 7-to-8 medium-duty bruiser for heavy upfits.
The compact low-cab-forward built for tight city streets.
Zero-emission Class 8 hauling with the 579's proven aero shape.
Peterbilt's next-generation zero-emission medium-duty service fleet.
Kenworth's aero flagship and fuel-economy leader.
The classic long hood, reborn for a new era.
A six-decade legend. The long-nose icon.
The vocational do-it-all for the toughest jobs.
The legendary do-anything workhorse.
Medium-heavy versatility with Kenworth toughness.
Tight-turning cabover for the city.
The off-road monster of the Kenworth lineup.
Wide-cab comfort and non-CDL capability for the medium-duty work day.
Kenworth's flagship aero tractor, reimagined with zero tailpipe emissions.
Quiet, emission-free cabovers built for the city delivery loop.
Hydrogen power with the range and refuel speed diesel drivers expect.
The aerodynamic revolution that taught the whole industry to cheat the wind.
The aero workhorse that bridged the T600 and the T680 era.
Kenworth's clean-sheet fleet truck and the first all-new design in decades.
The short-lived aero tractor that handed the torch to the T680.
The versatile medium-duty conventional that did a little of everything.
Heavy Class 7 muscle that bridged medium-duty and vocational work.
The cabover legend that defined the flat-nose era of American trucking.
The clean-sheet 2024 redesign that stunned the industry.
Regional-haul agility with a tight turning radius.
Volvo's brute for oversized loads.
Purpose-built for the car-hauling trade.
The job-site Volvo, built to abuse.
Zero-tailpipe-emission Class 8 hauling, ready for the regional grind.
The short-hood regional workhorse that paved the way for the VNR.
Volvo's long-nosed flagship built for owner-operators who live in their truck.
Mack's modern highway hauler.
The versatile day-cab and light-sleeper hauler.
The construction-site bulldog.
Mack's biggest, baddest highway tractor.
The low-entry trash specialist — now electric, too.
Mack's return to the medium-duty class.
The cabover refuse and concrete specialist.
Mack's new flagship, redefining the long haul.
The new standard for severe-duty Class 8 work.
Mack's medium-duty workhorse goes all-electric.
The zero-emission garbage truck that already works the curb.
The conventional that carried Mack into the modern highway era.
The CH's muscled-up cousin built to pull serious tonnage.
Mack's aero highway sleeper before the Anthem name existed.
The construction-site conventional that defined Mack tough.
The set-back-axle mixer chassis Mack built for decades.
The big-grille V8 brute of Mack's golden age.
The conventional that built Mack's reputation for nearly 40 years.
The low-cab-forward cabover that ruled the curb for 30 years.
The low-entry refuse cabover that paved the way for the LR.
Mack's Renault-built medium-duty class entry.
International's aero flagship for the highway.
Regional hauler built around driver comfort.
Premium severe-service flagship.
The bread-and-butter vocational International.
The flexible medium-duty backbone.
Retro-styled showpiece inspired by the 1930s.
The aero workhorse that sold by the hundreds of thousands.
The medium-duty fleet standard for two decades.
The vocational workhorse of its era.
Commercial-grade muscle from the only Class 4/5 truck built by a real truck company.
The zero-emission medium-duty workhorse, built on the proven MV.
The set-back-axle severe-duty legend that conquered the jobsite.
The regional-haul tractor built to grind out the short runs.
The square-hood, long-nose icon for owner-operators who wanted to be seen.
The DT466-powered medium-duty backbone that just won't die.
Medium-duty toughness in a Class 4/5 package, available in 4x4.
The flagship severe-duty brute.
Western Star goes premium on-highway.
The vocational workhorse of the X-series.
The accessible vocational Star.
The classic hand-built Star.
Western Star's aerodynamic experiment.
The short-hood workhorse built for the dirtiest jobs in the yard.
The heaviest-rated truck Western Star has ever built.
Western Star's set-back-axle step toward the aerodynamic highway hauler.
The big-bore Aero Tractor for drivers who wanted more cubes.
Western Star's lighter-duty answer to city hauling and delivery.
Purpose-built severe-duty, no compromises.
Low-cab-forward refuse specialist.
The yard tractor that never quits.
Severe-duty toughness sized for the tightest streets and alleys.
The first purpose-built battery-electric terminal tractor, with zero emissions and zero compromise.
An all-electric refuse cabover every bit as powerful and productive as its diesel sibling.
The severe-duty refuse cabover that built Autocar's reputation on America's collection routes.
Same brawny Xpeditor cabover, dropped low for fast in-and-out at every curb.
Conventional-cab medium-duty, built simple and tough.
Hino reaches up into Class 8 vocational.
The cabover-and-conventional medium-duty range.
The tight-turning cabover that owns the city.
Hino's medium-duty future, fully electric.
The entry-point Class 6 workhorse.
The low-profile Class 6 built for easy loading.
The heavier-duty Class 7 above the 338.
The wide-cab Class 4 cabover for tight streets.
Hino's original U.S. light conventional.
The conventional Class 4 box-truck chassis.
The Class 5 conventional for a bigger payload.
America's best-selling low-cab-forward truck.
Cabover medium-duty with a commanding view.
Isuzu's first all-electric Low Cab Forward — zero tailpipe, all workhorse.
Isuzu's only conventional cab — a Class 6-to-8 workhorse with a big-truck nose.
The walk-in delivery van engineered to put more cargo on less fuel.
The heavy-hauling Class 8 cabover at the top of Isuzu's Low Cab Forward range.
The contractor and tow-truck favorite.
Ford's biggest straight truck.
The Super Duty chassis cab that does everything.
Class 6 capability in a Super Duty package.
The heavy-half of the Super Duty chassis cab, built to carry a workload all day.
The work-ready one-ton workhorse that anchors millions of American fleets.
America's best-selling full-size van, the backbone of the working day.
The cutaway chassis that put a body on everything from ambulances to RVs.
The all-electric Transit that wires America's best-selling van for zero-emission routes.
The tilt-cab city hauler that replaced the immortal C-Series.
Ford's low-cab-forward answer to the Isuzu NPR in tight urban work.
The almost-immortal tilt cab that fought fires for three decades.
The Louisville Line — Ford's conventional big rig that built America's job sites.
Ford's aerodynamic Class 8 flagship, built to chase the long highway miles.
Ford's aluminum-cab cabover flagship for the era of the long hood-less highway hauler.
The heaviest Ram you can buy.
Heavy-hauling work-truck muscle.
The work-ready one-ton chassis.
GM's biggest conventional work truck.
The mid-range medium-duty Silverado.
Work-truck capability, pickup familiarity.
A rebadged Isuzu cabover with a bowtie.
The medium-duty workhorse that built America's job sites.
The tilt-cab city hauler with an Isuzu heart.
The conventional-cab backbone of the American working fleet.
Chevrolet's aerodynamic cabover for the open highway.
The forward-control chassis behind a million delivery routes.
Chevrolet's all-electric answer to the last mile.
The medium-duty legend GM retired in 2009.
The tilt-cab city delivery specialist.
The go-anywhere four-wheel-drive cabover.
One of the first series-production electric trucks in the US.
Class 4 electric cabover for the city.
The heavier Class 5 electric LCF.
Sterling's set-back-axle highway tractor.
The medium-duty Sterling workhorse.
The conventional vocational Sterling.
Caterpillar's set-back-axle vocational truck.
The set-forward-axle severe-service Cat.
Low-entry tilt-cab severe-service workhorse.
Heavy electric power for the dirtiest jobs.
The non-CDL workhorse that opens severe-service trucking to any driver.
The hardest-working truck nobody talks about.
Zero-emission yard work, perfect for indoor docks.
The yard spotter that put Ottawa on every loading dock in America.
The heavy-duty trailer shuttle.
A DOT-rated spotter that can run the road, too.
The single-axle Trailer Jockey built to shrug off potholes and rail crossings.
The tandem-axle workhorse for high-volume yards on smooth pavement.
Zero-emission terminal power built to run a full shift and recharge in about an hour.
The heavy-duty Class 8 spotter that anchored Capacity's terminal line before the current TJ trio.
The original Trailer Jockey that put Capacity in America's yards.
The headline-grabbing electric Class 8.
Battery-electric cabover for regional freight.
Hydrogen power for longer zero-emission range.
Purpose-built Class 6 electric.
Class 8 electric for vocational and regional work.
Battery-electric Class 8 day cab.
Medium-duty electric for the city.
The zero-emission yard goat that moves containers all shift, then keeps going.
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The best-selling Class 8 brand in North America. If you pass a semi on I-40, the odds say it's a Freightliner.
The chrome-and-class brand owner-operators dream about. Peterbilt's red oval is rolling Americana.
"The World's Best." Kenworth's bulletproof builds and the immortal W900 made it the trucker's trucker.
Safety-obsessed Swedes, built in Virginia. Volvo brought the integrated powertrain and the I-Shift gearbox mainstream.
"Built Like a Mack Truck." The gold bulldog on the hood has meant indestructible for over a century.
The brand that grew from McCormick farm machinery into a full-line truck maker — now powering its own S13 integrated drivetrain.
Hand-built, premium, and unapologetically tough. Western Star is the truck you buy when failure isn't an option.
America's oldest motor-vehicle brand, now laser-focused on purpose-built severe-service and refuse trucks.
Toyota's truck arm. Hino owns the reliable, easy-to-service end of the medium-duty market.
The low-cab-forward delivery king. If a box truck is squeezing down a city alley, it's probably an Isuzu.
Beyond the F-150: Ford's medium-duty F-650/F-750 quietly power tow yards, utilities and contractors nationwide.
Ram's 3500–5500 Chassis Cabs are the Cummins-powered backbone of service, tow and contractor fleets.
GM's medium-duty Silverados — co-developed with Navistar — put a familiar bowtie on Class 4–6 work trucks.
The TopKick and its Chevy Kodiak twin were the medium-duty kings of their era — still everywhere on the used market.
The Canter cabover was a fixture of US urban delivery, but Daimler wound down the Fuso brand in North America (announced 2020) — dealers now handle parts and service, and new sales flow through its all-electric RIZON marque.
Daimler's all-electric Class 4–5 cabover brand for North America — launched in 2023 as the zero-emission successor to Fuso's US lineup, aimed at urban delivery fleets.
Built from Ford's Heavy Truck line, Sterling lived just over a decade — but its trucks still haul freight and parts demand stays strong.
Cat's short-lived on-highway vocational line — the CT series — wore the yellow badge from 2011 to 2016.
The reborn Crane Carrier — purpose-built severe-service and refuse trucks, now in both diesel and electric.
The yellow terminal tractor you see at every distribution center and port — the unsung backbone of the supply chain.
The other big name in terminal tractors — Capacity's spotters shuttle trailers in yards and ports across the country.
The Semi put a Class 8 electric tractor in the spotlight, with a 500-mile range target and a center-seat cab.
The headline-grabbing zero-emission startup that collapsed: Nikola filed for Chapter 11 in Feb 2025 and wound down, selling its assets to Hyroad Energy. Its Tre BEV and hydrogen FCEV tractors still run in a handful of fleets.
A purpose-built EV maker that pulled out of the US: after entering creditor protection it was sold in 2025, dropped commercial trucks, and refocused on Québec-built school buses (now 'LION'). Its Class 6–8 trucks are no longer sold in the States.
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