“Today, Western Star has chosen to highlight the vocational truck market as the first place ... smooth driving on extreme terrain, like logging roads and rock quarries. Power Launch provides ...

MOUNTVILLE, S.C. — Western Star has launched an off-road ... from the tar sands of Alberta to the logging roads of South Carolina. The truck maker also recently bolstered its on-highway ...

B.C., and launched what was called the White Western Star. A tough truck, it was essentially hand-built, and if you wanted holes in the frame here as opposed to there, you had only to ask. Its initial ...

Mike Jackson, general manager of Western Star, says the hand-built trucks have a long heritage in the logging industry in Canada, where they command a robust portion of the market. In terms of ...

The Western Star truck brand turns 50 this year, which seems improbable, given the truck maker’s humble Canadian roots. The company was launched by White Motor Company in Kelowna, B.C. in 1967 to ...

and our Western Star X-Series reflect that reality.” The trucks each fill their own unique niches. The 49X is a good fit for heavy-haul and logging, and both models – depending upon the spec ...

The synergistic approach to DTNA’s latest truck represents a ... The original Western Star 4900 released in 1968 was designed to perform logging operations in the unforgiving elements of the ...

Western Star Trucks has introduced three new Stratosphere ... construction, oil field and logging. In these types of applications where the sleeper may only be needed to meet operating ...

“One thing that is unique about Western Star inserts is we do seal them,” says Parlier. Vocational trucks can accumulate ... on extreme terrain such as logging roads and rock quarries.