Motor truck
Camión de motor
- Date
- 1896 · confidence high
- Place
- Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
- Credited to
- Gottlieb Daimler (Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft)
- People
- 👤 Gottlieb Daimler1834–1900
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Load-carrying vehicle with a 4 hp petrol engine. It began road freight transport, independent of the railways.
What it led to
- Door-to-door logistics and decline of rail freight
- Motorised warfare and military logistics (Taxis of the Marne, Voie Sacrée)
- Road and motorway networks