Normally a coming emissions change triggers a pre-buy, a rush to purchase trucks under the old standard before the new one lands.
With ambiguity still hanging over the final 2027 rules, the engine strategies, and the penalty structure, buyers are in wait-and-see mode.
In North America, Daimler delivers that full-service leasing through partnerships with Penske and Ryder rather than running the fleet itself.
Driverless Trucks Are Closer Than The Timeline Suggests The most forward-looking part of the conversation was autonomy, and Daimler’s framing was concrete rather than hand-wavy.
That is a genuinely different way to pay for a truck, and Daimler says it will finance whatever shape the autonomous model ultimately takes.