History is a wonderful teacher if you stay awake in class.

There have been many companies making trucks for someone else through the ages ie NYK made the first (disasterous) model 110 for Raymond and don't forget that Raymond had a yellow line and made its outdated technology for Cat.

Here in Canada it is BT that lost the lion share of the deal as they were absorbed into Raymond. The merge was good for all as BT got a top notch national distribution and service organization and Raymond ended up with more product lines and a wealth of technical support.

Nothing but speculation as to weather Toyota will eventualy merge in the stream or when its independant dealer contracts expire.