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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:01 AM Mar 2025

Kenworth's Iconic W900 Semi-Truck Is Ending Production After 63 Years [View all]

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Kenworth’s Iconic W900 Semi-Truck Is Ending Production After 63 Years

The W900 put in more than six decades of service and is now being put out to pasture as Kenworth focuses on the next generation of trucks.

CALEB JACOBS
Posted on Mar 21, 2025


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Kenworth

If you’re of driving age in the United States, you’ve almost definitely seen thousands of Kenworth W900s on the road in your life. Spend any time traveling our country’s interstate system and you’ll spy several eating up the miles with a tall set of exhaust stacks and a trailer in tow. Amazingly, the W900 has been around since 1963, though Kenworth announced this week that it’s canceling the iconic semi-truck next year. If there was ever a time to pour one out, this might be it.

As you could have guessed, Kenworth is sunsetting the W900 due to ever-changing emissions regulations and component constraints. The manufacturer is also discontinuing the T800W and C500 for the same reasons. You hate to see it, though it’s worth noting that electrification isn’t mentioned anywhere in the announcement.

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