Competition record
Daimler
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In this library id, Daimler is the truck business that sold heavy trucks in Europe. The EU trucks cartel, which coordinated list prices and emission-cost surcharges, was fined about €3.8 billion in total.
Overview
Daimler, for this id, means the truck maker. Its Mercedes-Benz trucks are the heavy vehicles fleets buy for long-haul and distribution work in Europe. The wider Daimler group also made cars. The cartel file is about the trucks.
From the 1997-2011 era, senior staff at the major European truck makers coordinated gross list prices and the surcharges they added to pass on the cost of emissions rules. Fleet buyers who thought list prices and those surcharges were set independently were looking at coordinated numbers. The Commission's decisions in 2016 and 2017 imposed fines of about €3.8 billion. Daimler is one of the makers in the library file, with Iveco and others.
Scania was handled on a separate track. This profile does not assign Daimler its own share of the €3.8 billion. The library status is fined.
Competition footprint
List prices and emission surcharges are the two figures the makers aligned.
The customers are haulage fleets and leasing companies buying heavy trucks.
The €3.8 billion figure is the makers' combined fines, not a Daimler-only number.
Consumer & business angle
Hauliers paid more for trucks, and freight rates can carry that cost onward.
Iveco and the other European truck makers were the coordinating rivals.
What to watch
- Follow-on damages actions by fleets, which spread across European courts after the 2016 and 2017 decisions.
- How emission-related surcharges are set when a new regulation raises the cost of a truck.
Markets
heavy trucks · commercial vehicles · heavy-duty trucks · commercial vehicle pricing
Also known as: mercedes-benz trucks, daimler trucks