A. Gordon Clark, retired trucking executive, dies at 90

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Theresa Clift
Automotive News
September 5, 2012 - 2:12 pm ET

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- Longtime truck manufacturing executive A. Gordon Clark, who played major sales roles at Freightliner and Detroit Diesel in the 1980s and 1990s, died Sept. 2. He was 90.

Clark joined Daimler-Benz AG as a consultant in 1980 and was later appointed senior vice president of sales and marketing for Daimler’s newly acquired truck unit, Freightliner Corp.

In 1989, Clark joined Penske Corp. to help re-establish its Detroit Diesel unit as a leader in heavy-duty truck engines in North America. Clark retired from Penske in 2005 at age 83.

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