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      <title>Mercedes-Benz Unimog receives &quot;Off-road Vehicle of the Year 2012&quot; award</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the eighth time in succession, the Mercedes-Benz Unimog has been chosen as the best cross-country vehicle of the year by the readers of the trade magazine "Off-Road" in the category "special vehicles". The award "Off-road Vehicle of the Year 2012 – special vehicles category" was based on the votes given to the cross-country vehicles in the eight categories of the competition run by the old-established Munich magazine for off-road vehicles.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog</category>
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      <title>Impressive Mercedes-Benz Atego 917 covers one million kilometres of mountain driving</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A million kilometres, accumulated in short-radius distribution work on Austria's Alpine roads – no problem at all for the Mercedes-Benz Atego 917, as our example from the company BS Transport in the Austrian village of Tristach shows. Still with its original engine and never having needed repairs other than as required during regular servicing and maintenance, this truck offers a fine example of the model's economy and longevity.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Trucks &gt; Atego</category>
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      <title>Scaffolding trade relies on the Unimog</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Using the Unimog in various trades has a long history as its adaptability is a great advantage in this extremely diversified sector. Among those companies who really appreciate the Unimog is the scaffolding company Schneider Ltd. and its working relationship with this competent all-rounder goes back for about 30 years. Scaffolding erected by this Sonthofen company on churches, hospitals, schools, industrial buildings and mountain railway stations can be anything up to 50 metres high.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog &gt; U 300 - U 500 &gt; Building and energy industrie</category>
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      <title>Riding high with the Unimog 5000</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Unimog 5000 meets even the most challenging objectives: it is used between May and October each year to carry the streams of tourists from the Etna cable car station at 2500 metres up to the Torre del Filosofo. Here, at 2935 metres above sea level, is where the hiking trail begins for those tourists who want to be as close as possible to the lava fields. More than 300,000 tourists are drawn each year to Sicily by the prospect of climbing Mount Etna.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog &gt; U 3000 - U 5000</category>
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      <title>Unimog U 500 with 4-wheel steering defies heavy snowfall in the Austrian Vorarlberg area</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Mercedes-Benz Unimog is in all-year-round use in the Austrian Vorarlberg region: snow clearing, road and crash barrier cleaning as well as grass verge mowing duties have been undertaken for many years now with the help of the "Universal-Motor-Gerät", or "Universal Motor Device", commonly known as the Unimog. In early 2012, the tropical cyclone "Andrea" brought particular challenges for the Unimog fleet operated out of the Felsenau depot near Feldkirch/
Frastanz, which is responsible for road maintenance services on some two-thirds of the roads in the Vorarlberg region.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog &gt; U 300 - U 500 &gt; Winter service</category>
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      <title>Best Goods for Turkish Fruit Wholesale Merchant: 150 Mercedes-Benz Trucks for Delivery of Fresh Citrus Fruits</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Daimler’s subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Türk has reeled in another major sale. By placing an order for 150 Mercedes-Benz Actros 1844 LS trucks, Turkish fruit and vegetable wholesaler Cekok Gida continues to put its trust in the dependability of Mercedes-Benz trucks. The food company relies primarily on Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks, which make up about 90 percent of the firm’s total fleet of more than 240 vehicles.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Trucks &gt; The new Actros &gt; Special Topics</category>
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      <title>Daimler Adds 1,200 Positions in Ramp-up of Truck Production in North America</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Daimler Trucks North America today announced the addition of a second shift and plans to ramp up production at its Freightliner Truck Manufacturing Plant in Cleveland, N.C. This will result in the creation of 1,200 new jobs, including 100 at the nearby DTNA Components and Logistics Plant in Gastonia, N.C.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Daimler Trucks North America &gt; Freightliner Trucks</category>
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      <title>Daimler Reveals Its First Truck &quot;Made in India&quot;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At a sneak preview for selected Indian journalists, Daimler Truck’s subsidiary Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) revealed the new BharatBenz brand heavy-duty truck today. With its first-ever truck “Made in India”, BharatBenz will enter the promising Indian market for medium heavy-duty and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. India has become the world’s third-largest truck market in recent years, boasting a volume far above 300,000 units in 2011.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; BharatBenz</category>
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      <title>Daimler Trucks Improves Profitability, Productivity, and Capabilities for Innovation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Indications are good that the global truck sector will continue to grow in the future. The current level of incoming orders at Daimler AG confirm this view: The orders for 420,000 units that Daimler Trucks received between January and November 2011 represent a 26 percent increase from the prior year (334,200 units), as well as the best new order figure since 2007. Sales at Daimler Trucks were also up 15 percent to 371,400 units during the same period.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Company &gt; Business News</category>
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      <title>Daimler Sends Two Unimogs to Help Flood Victims in Thailand</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz Thailand is helping the Thai government combat the effects of the flood by providing two all-terrain Unimog all-wheel-drive vehicles. Now that the floodwaters are receding, crews have begun to clean up Bangkok - a task that might take weeks or even months to complete. This is a task for which Mercedes-Benz-Unimogs are ideally suited. They will help to transport debris from areas that would otherwise be inaccessible.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog</category>
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