Daimler Truck North America announced on July 29, 2026 that it will end truck production in Portland, closing its Swan Island manufacturing plant and cutting 375 jobs as the work shifts to its plants in the Carolinas. The closure ends decades of truck-making in the city where the company is headquartered, a lineage that runs back to Freightliner's origins. Longtime plant workers described the announcement to local stations as a heartbreak for crews who spent whole careers on the line.
No Oregon WARN notice had been filed as of the announcement; the filing typically follows within days for a closure of this size and will carry the official worksite detail. This entry uses the company-announced 375 against Daimler Truck North America's roughly 28,000 employees.