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    Western Star XD OFFROAD: Working in the dirt

    April 27, 2017
    PHOENIX. With trucking editors on their way here for a Western Star 50th Anniversary event, XD and vocational sales manager John Tomlinson decided to look around for a venue more suitable than a parking lot for showing off the XD OFFROAD trucks he’d brought along. He found one.

    PHOENIX. With trucking editors on their way here for a Western Star 50th Anniversary event, XD and vocational sales manager John Tomlinson decided to look around for a venue more suitable than a parking lot for showing off the XD OFFROAD trucks he’d brought along.

    He found one, as the photos above show. Fleet Owner takes a spin in the new Western Star XD-25, as  well as a 4900XD with a boom body, a 4700SB water truck, and a 4700SF mixer.

    (All photos by Kevin Jones/Fleet Owner)

    About the Author

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    Kevin Jones has an odd fascination with the supply chain. As editor of American Trucker, he focuses on the critical role owner-ops and small fleets play in the economy, locally and globally. And he likes big trucks.

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