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[[Freighliner Group Visit - Erie, Pennsylvania, USA - August 19, 2009]]
[[Peter Maybury - CEO, Freighliner] Certainly from what I've seen]
[over the last couple of days, it seems like we're in particularly good hands,]
[and I've enjoyed it immensely so far.]
[Every single customer who uses Freightliner has got a choice.]
[There is not one customer who uses us who has to use us,]
[and we have to deliver to the promise.]
[We had the great surprise of turning the corner]
[and seeing this--my first sight almost brought tears to my eyes [laughter]--]
[of seeing the two locomotives that are there in the finished livery,]
[They're going to take the thing by storm.]
[What we buy now will last and be the platform for the next 30 years,]
[so we need to buy the best technology available.]
[The Freightliner perspective in terms of what we needed,]
[we needed higher horsepower and tractive effort.]
[We needed to work with a partner who could support their product]
[after we started to take delivery,]
[and of course like with everything these days, it's always a challenging time scale.]
[As far as GE meeting the challenges, ]
[the PowerHaul design so far has met all the standards.]
[The word--I don't know if it transfers across in terms of the context that we've used it there--]
[we like to say in the UK there are some elegant solutions to the problems faced.]
[The loco is on target for authorization--something we call a mulligation--]
[and it's a credit to the GE team in all of the disciplines]
[and certainly we see this as a partnership that we're proud of.]
[Our customers and competitors are watching.]
[This has had some fantastic coverage in the UK,]
[and I want to get all of the good messages about this loco out there.]
[But they'll be watching; they'll be watching for a successful interaction,]
[for the service experience and the troubleshooting that will go with it,]
[for seamless addressing of the inevitable teething problems,]
[and we want to give them a product that also raises that bar of expectation,]
[The thing that shines out is the commitment to doing a good job]
[The teamwork has been great. It really has been good to see.]
[There's no question that you guys have done a great job there.]
[Some of the stuff on the cooling packaging, ]
[which has particularly struck home with me,]
[the front end crash redesign--]
[all of that has been really impressive.]
[It couldn't have gone better.]
[I've been really impressed with everything I've seen here,]
[so thank you, every one of you, because I'm sure all of you have played a part in it so far]
[because you wouldn't be here if you hadn't.]
[Thank you very much for what you've done.]
[Let's finish the job off, let's finish it off well,]
