How Sprinter dodges the chicken tax

Richard Truett covers engineering for Automotive News

November 24, 2014 05:00 AM

LADSON, S.C. -- A curious exercise in auto manufacturing takes place daily inside the old, 350,000-square-foot Western Star truck plant here now owned by Daimler.

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