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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

    Kevin Jones 1 | Editor

    Kevin has served as editor-in-chief of Trailer/Body Builders magazine since 2017—just the third editor in the magazine’s 60 years. He is also editorial director for Endeavor Business Media’s Commercial Vehicle group, which includes FleetOwner, Bulk Transporter, Refrigerated Transporter, American Trucker, and Fleet Maintenance magazines and websites.

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