- Daimler Truck North America plans to restore 400 jobs and hire 200 more at its Mount Holly, N.C., Freightliner plant by the end of 2026.
- The move signals a freight market rebound, with Class 8 orders up 231% year over year in June and sustained monthly increases in truck production.
- DTNA aims to add a second shift at Mount Holly while monitoring demand trends, though it has not yet reinstated workers at its Saltillo, Mexico, plant.
Daimler Truck North America is set to boost the workforce at its Mount Holly manufacturing plant in North Carolina, CEO John O’Leary told Transport Topics, in one of the first public indications of the freight market rebound’s impact on truck demand.
The plant, which focuses on production of Freightliner trucks, will bring back 400 employees laid off in July 2025 as part of 2,000 production plant job cuts across North American DTNA manufacturing facilities.
In addition, DTNA plans to hire an additional 200 workers at the Mount Holly facility by the end of 2026 as part of plans to add a second shift.
Alongside the Cleveland and Gastonia facilities, Mount Holly — which opened in 1979 — forms a nucleus of manufacturing capacity for America’s largest truck maker. The Cleveland Truck Plant is Freightliner’s largest U.S. manufacturing plant…