page_title: Peterbilt
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Peterbilt / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Peterbilt truck
context_page_description: Peterbilt Motors Company is an American-based truck manufacturer. Producing its first truck in 1939, the company specializes in commercial heavy-duty and medium-duty vehicles. Since 1958, Peterbilt has been owned by PACCAR, operating alongside sister division Kenworth Truck Company. Introduced in 1953, a large red-oval brand emblem distinguishes its vehicles.
  Founded in Oakland, California, Peterbilt is currently headquartered in Denton, Texas; the company manufactures vehicles in Denton, Texas and in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec.
context_section_description: From 1939 until the mid-1980s, the company was based in the East Bay area of Northern California. The original plant was in Oakland, which closed in 1960 and moved to nearby Newark. Truck production moved to Denton, Texas at the close of 1986, but division headquarters and engineering remained in California until 1992, when a new administrative complex and engineering department at the Denton plant was completed. The Madison/Nashville plant opened in 1969 in Madison, Tennessee, for the east coast market. Originally it only manufactured the 352/282 cabover, then conventional production began in the 1970s until it was closed in 2009. Production of Class 8 trucks continues at the Denton, Texas plant (www.peterbilt.com).
caption: Peterbilt assembly plant and headquarters in Denton, Texas.
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