Peterbilt Motors Company is a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through
Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates
manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas (1980), and Sainte-Thιrθse, Quebec.
From the early 1960s until the mid 1980s, the company was based in the San
Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, with its headquarters, parts department,
and main plant all in Newark, California. The Newark plant closed in 1986
with all manufacturing consolidated at its facility in Denton; in 1993 headquarters
and engineering also moved to Denton.
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