Today, President Obama made a trip to a manufacturing plant for Daimler Trucks North America in Mount Holly, North Carolina.

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The company now builds in North America roughly 70 percent of the cars and trucks it sells in the region, he said.

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Chrysler is everything that General Motors is trying not to be--overly reliant on light trucks and beset with overcapacity and losses in North America.

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Chrysler is everything that General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) is trying not to be--overly reliant on light trucks and beset with overcapacity and losses in North America.

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In North America, the fleet buyers of large trucks dictate which engines, gearboxes or braking systems go in their trucks.

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Fifteen years ago Cat had no mining trucks or front shovels, nor did it sell any paving equipment in North America.

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