Liebherr introduced the T 282 B at the Bauma trade fair in Munich, Germany, on March 29, 2004. The T 282 B is the successor to the T 282, designed in Newport News, a payload capacity, diesel/AC electric drive haul truck introduced in 1998. At the time of its launch in 2004, the T 282 B offered the largest haul truck payload capacity in the world, and remained unmatched in payload capacity for over four years.