AUTOCAR Equipment For Sale in Canada

About Autocar

Autocar claims it is the oldest surviving vehicle nameplate in the United States, tracing its beginnings back to 1897 when Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Co. and founder Louis Semple Clark built Autocar No. 1, a tricycle powered by a 1-cylinder petrol engine. The company was renamed Autocar in 1899 and notes that it invented several items that are standard in today’s trucks and cars, including left-side drive, double-reduction rear axles, porcelain-insulated spark plugs, and circulating oil systems, along with the first American shaft-driven vehicles.

Autocar shifted its focus to custom-engineered trucks in 1911 and produced its last motor car that year. In the years that followed, Autocar was among the earliest adopters of diesel engines and offered Xpeditor and other models of cab-over-engine lorries for sale, along with trucks for on- and off-road construction, mining, logging, and oil field use. Autocar was acquired several times, first in 1953 by White Motor Co., then in 1981 by Volvo, which eventually sold the Autocar and Xpeditor truck models to GVW Group, forming Autocar LLC with a focus on refuse trucks and custom-engineered trucks for demanding applications.

Today, Autocar sells ACX severe-duty cab-over-engine trucks, ACMD medium duty and heavy duty cab-over-engine trucks, and ACTT terminal tractor/yard spotter lorries. Its ACX and ACMD trucks can be used in a range of scenarios, including as refuse trucks, concrete pump trucks, mobile crane and lift trucks, paint striper trucks, water blaster trucks, and trucks for aircraft services.