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FREIGHTLINER
CASCADIA

Cascadia 72" Raised-Roof SleeperCab

The road to greater profitability starts here.
When you let go of all the preconceived notions about how a truck is supposed to look, perform and drive, something remarkable happens. Introducing the Freightliner Cascadia, a smarter choice for better business and lifestyle. ™ More efficient. The Cascadia’s dramatically sculptedexterior reduces aerodynamic drag to an unprecedented minimum. Your payoff: excellent fuel economy that increases your profitability. More productive. Lightweight aluminum construction and weight-saving components boost your payload potential with each and every truckload. Built-in reliability, ease of maintenance and drivability maximize uptime and keep you moving forward. A better life on theroad. A wide, spacious and quiet cab; superior ride and handling characteristics; excellent visibility and a selection of comfortable living environments merge to produce an unparalleled driving experience. Freightliner Cascadia. Running smart has never been so easy.

Original thinking behind every advance.
The objective. Create a next-generation over-the-road tractor with the bestcost/performance ratio in the marketplace. Not just for today, but for the foreseeable future. The Cascadia started with a clean sheet of paper and an open mind. Freightliner spent millions of dollars to benchmark the competition by tearing down and conducting extensive analysis on our trucks and our competitors’ trucks. The findings yielded strengths and weaknesses, and identified best practices that could beapplied to the Cascadia. Scores of customers and drivers throughout North America participated in its development, lending their unique insights and realworld knowledge to the process. Then engineers with decades of experience, aided by state-of-the-art design and simulation tools, refined the Cascadia until they got it just right. The result is an aggressively confident step in the directionyou’re already moving: forward.

Engineers employed advanced computer-aided design tools, computational fluid dynamics and other simulation techniques to develop, analyze and refine the Cascadia’s design. The most promising results were tested full-scale in Freightliner’s state-of-the-art wind tunnel for verification.

Pushing the envelope into uncharted territory.
The Cascadia began life as one ofthe most thoroughly tested Freightliner trucks ever, ensuring its productivity, safety, durability and lasting comfort. Months in Freightliner’s proprietary, state-of-the-art wind tunnel helped define an impressive efficiency story. The first of its kind, full-scale facility helped refine and validate the Cascadia’s superior aerodynamics. Then thousands of miles logged under actual operatingconditions reinforced its fuel-squeezing bottom-line benefits.

Proof of concept in exhausting detail.
Cab and major components withstood grueling performance tests simulating millions of miles under the absolute worst conditions you can throw at a truck. The Cascadia is advanced and tremendously strong. In fact, the cab design meets every U.S. and European crashworthiness standard. The entireHVAC system was tested again and again in Freightliner’s climate control chamber at extreme temperatures, and then on the road under tough summer and winter driving conditions. The resulting design guarantees precision performance and comfort.

The Cascadia cab was tortured on a shaker machine for millions of simulated miles to ensure structural components, the cab and hood wouldn’t fail, andsqueaks and rattles over the life of the vehicle would be minimized.

Ergonomic, robust door handles endured their share of punishment, as well.

Since drivers might open and close the door an average of 2,800 times a year, the Cascadia features doors that shut with a satisfying, like-new “chunk” even after 220,000 lock-unlock-openand-slam cycles in engineering tests.

Driver safety was a top...