By 1907, the company had decided to concentrate on commercial vehicles, and the Autocar brand is still in use for commercial trucks. One of the company's early cars was the Pittsburgher. The company was called the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company when started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1897 but was renamed the Autocar Company in 1899 when it moved to Ardmore, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. Autocar now builds four models of custom-engineered, heavy-duty trucks and has regained leading positions in several vocational segments. In 2001, Autocar was acquired by GVW Group, LLC, which revived Autocar as an independent company. White was taken over in turn by Volvo Trucks in 1981 with Autocar continuing as a division.
In 1953 Autocar was taken over by the White Motor Company which made Autocar their top-of-the-line brand. The last cars were produced in 1911 and the company continued as a maker of severe-duty trucks.
Started in 1897 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a manufacturer of Brass Era automobiles, and trucks from 1899, Autocar is the oldest surviving motor vehicle brand in the Western Hemisphere.
The Autocar Company is an American specialist manufacturer of severe-duty, Class 7 and Class 8 vocational trucks, with its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Severe Duty Class 7 & 8 truck chassis and Terminal Tractors
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