Sterling L-Line

The Sterling L-Line was one of the lines of trucks that Sterling Trucks produced between 1997 and 2009, listed as available in set back and set forward versions. 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, applied its name to Class 8 tractors and to medium and heavy cab and chassis vehicles that continued the second generation Ford Louisville and AeroMax line. The L-Line cab was also used for the medium-duty Sterling Acterra. Bodies were added by third-party upfitters for freight distribution and for vocational jobs such as construction, snow plowing and refuse collection. Sterling assembled its conventional-cab vehicles in St. Thomas, Ontario and Portland, Oregon, and Daimler discontinued the brand in 2009.