Sterling Acterra

The Sterling Acterra was a Class 5 to 8 medium-duty truck sold by Sterling Trucks from 1999 to 2009. It used the cab of the Sterling L-Line on a Freightliner Business Class chassis, which let Sterling, the truck brand set up after Daimler AG, parent company of Freightliner, bought the heavy-truck product lines of Ford Motor Company in 1997, extend a range that had begun with heavy-duty conventional trucks. Cab and chassis vehicles of this kind were fitted with bodies by third-party upfitters and body builders for freight distribution and for vocational work such as construction, snow plowing and refuse collection. Daimler Trucks North America announced on 14 October 2008 that it would discontinue the Sterling product line, and Sterling stopped taking orders for new trucks in January 2009.