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International carries one of the oldest names in American machinery. Its roots run back to the International Harvester Company, the farm-equipment giant formed at the dawn of the twentieth century from the McCormick reaper business, and for much of the century its trucks shared showroom floors with tractors and combines. When Harvester broke apart in the 1980s, the truck and engine operation became Navistar, based in the Chicago suburbs. Few truck brands can trace a family tree back to the horse-drawn harvest.

The Navistar years brought highs and painful lows. Its trucks were everywhere, from highway tractors to dump trucks and the yellow school buses built by its IC Bus arm, but an ill-fated bet on an emissions strategy that avoided urea-based exhaust treatment cost the company dearly in the 2010s, and its in-house engines lost credibility with fleets. Germany's Traton, the commercial-vehicle group of the Volkswagen empire and owner of Scania and MAN, took full control in 2021.

Since then the company has rebranded as International Motors and rebuilt its lineup around shared Traton technology, including the S13 integrated powertrain in the LT Series highway tractor. The range also covers the Lonestar, the vocational HV and HX, the medium-duty MV and electric models such as the eMV. Its rivals are Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Volvo and Mack. Coverage here follows new trucks, plant and dealer news, fleet orders, recalls, school-bus developments and the company's integration into the Volkswagen-backed Traton group.