T.A. Peterman

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "T.A. Peterman" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

T.A. Peterman, short for Theodore Alfred "Al" Peterman, was the founder of Peterbilt Motors Company.

Born on March 22, 1893, Peterman was involved in the logging business on the West Coast of the US, where he modified and improved several used trucks for hauling jobs. In 1939, he acquired Fageol Truck and Coach Company of Oakland, California,^[1] from Sterling Motor Truck Co. The first Peterbilt trucks were nearly identical in appearance to the former Fageol designs.

Peterman died of cancer on November 16, 1944, in Tacoma, Washington, at the age of 51.^[2]