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Trucks cartel compensation: Daimler and Mercedes-Benz
Did your business buy, lease or hire Mercedes-Benz trucks over 6 tonnes between 1997 and 2014? Daimler received the heaviest fine in the case.
Why Daimler received the heaviest sanction
As the largest seller of heavy goods vehicles in Europe, Daimler sat at the centre of the arrangement. Investigators established that its executives met competitors regularly to set gross list prices across the continent.
The group also agreed with the other members to coordinate the timetable for introducing environmental technology and to pass the full cost on to buyers. The fine paid into the EU budget compensates no haulier: it establishes the fault, and it is for you to pursue your civil right to reparation.
Every Mercedes-Benz industrial vehicle with a gross weight above 6 tonnes registered or contracted during the infringement period gives rise to a claim.
|
Mercedes-Benz model |
Use |
Eligible acquisition years |
|---|---|---|
|
Actros |
Long-haul transport |
1997 to 2014, generations I to III and New Actros |
|
Atego |
Regional distribution and light construction |
1998 to 2014 |
|
Axor |
Heavy rigid, distribution and sites |
2001 to 2014 |
|
Antos |
Heavy distribution, Euro 6 |
2012 to 2014 |
|
Arocs |
Construction and mixers |
2013 to 2014 |
|
Econic |
Municipal and waste collection |
1998 to 2014 |
Purchase, lease or vehicle already sold: your right stands
Eligibility depends neither on the financing arrangement nor on whether the truck is still in your fleet. The rules are identical whatever the financing: see outright purchase or credit, leasing and hire purchase, long-term hire and trucks sold or scrapped.
Directive 2014/104/EU assigns the right to reparation to the economic entity that bore the overcharge at the time of the original transaction. Reselling the vehicle does not erase that past loss.
How your claim is calculated
The original overcharge is only part of your claim. The decisive lever is the compounding of statutory late payment interest, accrued over twelve to twenty-eight years.
Worked example: for an Actros bought new in 2006 at EUR 110,000 net, a 15 % overcharge of EUR 16,500 and twenty years of statutory interest at 4 % per year bring the total recoverable amount to roughly EUR 36,150 for that single vehicle.
Eligibility check
Send us your invoices, lease agreements, registration documents or asset registers covering 1997 to 2014.
Audit and firm offer
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Guided decision
You choose between a cash purchase of your claim within 30 days and litigation on a success-fee basis.
Payment released
The compensation is credited directly to your company bank account.
Frequently asked questions
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