The Commercial Vehicle Cluster was founded in the year 2005, owing to the high concentration of manufacturers and suppliers of the commercial vehicle industry (trucks, buses, agricultural machines, construction machines) in the south western Germany, namely the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg. Since March 2008, the Cluster exists in the legal form of a GmbH (Ltd.) as a public private partnership, consisting of Daimler AG, John Deere, Grammer AG, Kirchhoff Automotive GmbH, euro engineering AG and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.