Essentially a good read. But I used to read my customer's Automotive News every week or so, and Ford Class 6 thru 8 sales were always in the top 3, sometimes top 2. So when the new generation of L-series came out in 1996, Daimler/Freightliner panicked and they knew they had to get rid of that pesky Ford competition. So Freightliner offered Jac Nasser -- I think it was he -- $300 million (not $200 million). Ford never gave it a chance. By the way, here in New England I'm not seeing many Volvo or Macks. One thing that was true is that Ford was too complacent, having let the C-series and L-series go virtually unchanged for around 30 years. Another thing I'll say here is that when parents waited with their children at the school bus stops and saw Ford on the front of school buses, and Memorial Day crowds saw the Ford name on fire trucks, that translated to more civilian car and light truck sales.