Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill Status

Contact:               Amy Sills
                       503.745.8535
                       amy.sills@daimler.com

                      Maria McCullough
                       803.578.3161
                       maria.mccullough@daimler.com <mailto:maria.mccullough@daimler.com> <!--EndFragment-->

GAFFNEY, S.C. – Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a leader in sustainability efforts, is the first chassis manufacturer and first company within the trucking industry to achieve Zero Waste to Landfill Status in the United States.

Joining an elite group of solid waste-free manufacturing facilities in the United States, FCCC went from disposing 250,000 pounds per month of solid waste in January 2007 to disposing zero pounds today as a result of numerous environmental efforts implemented at the FCCC facility.

“Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation easily surpassed our corporate goal by realizing Zero Waste to Landfill status three months earlier than our original January 2010 target date,” said Roger Nielsen, chief operating officer of Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA), FCCC’s parent company. “FCCC was able to achieve these results by the continued efforts and diligence of all employees within the company, and we continue to seek ways to reduce our environmental impact in our facility and through our products and alternative-fuel efforts.”