Daimler Trucks North America opened its $18.7 million High Desert Proving Grounds here May 18, which will enable the parent of Freightliner and Western Star Trucks to do more broad-based vehicle testing not far from its Portland headquarters.
The 31,400 square-foot building will employ 40 people, and trucks will be put through their paces on a 3.5-mile test track with nine surfaces.
Ground breaking for the facility was April 2016.
Roger Nielsen, DTNA’s president since April 1, opened the facility before 100 people — employees, Madras residents and government officials and press.
