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1WAAutocar trucks

Held by Volvo White Truck Corporation · registered in the United States

WMI 1WA names 17 models, more than any of the other five WMIs that decode Autocar. It shares most of its model list with one other code. It was added to vPIC on October 21, 2016. Its rules run from model year 1984 to 1988, with nothing after 1988.

Models in the decoding rules, by model year

  1. AT1984–1988
  2. C & DC1984–1988
  3. Conventional Long1984–1988
  4. Conventional Medium1984–1988
  5. Conventional Short1984–1988
  6. Conventional Sleeper Long1984–1988
  7. Conventional Sleeper Medium1984–1988
  8. Conventional Sleeper Short1984–1988
  9. DK1984–1988
  10. High Cab Over Long1984–1988
  11. High Cab Over Medium1984–1988
  12. High Cab Over Short1984–1988
  13. K Long1984–1988
  14. K Medium1984–1988
  15. K Short1984–1988
  16. Low Cab Over1984–1988
  17. S1984–1988

Where the rules place assembly

Plant countryUnited States

Plant locations namedOgden; New River Valley

Bodies and power

Body classesTruck

Primary fuelsDiesel

Codes with largely the same models

These codes have no page of their own: at least half of the models in their rules also appear under 1WA. The last column counts the shared models.

CodeHolderVehicle typeModel yearsShared models
1WUVolvo White Truck Corporationtrucks1984–198817 of 17

Compared with the closest code, 1WB

1WB is held by Volvo White Truck Corporation. Measured by the overlap of the two model lists, it is the code closest to 1WA apart from those listed above.

Models in both17

Model years1WA: 1984–1988 · 1WB: 1984

Vehicle type1WA: trucks · 1WB: incomplete vehicles (chassis)

Other codes held by Volvo White Truck

CodeVehicle typeMakesModel yearsModels
1WBincomplete vehicles (chassis)Autocar198417
1WDincomplete vehicles (chassis)Autocar198417
1WXincomplete vehicles (chassis)White198417
1WYincomplete vehicles (chassis)White198417

All 6 codes of Volvo White Truck

Autocar under other holders

Models named in each code's rules

  1. 5V4 Autocar LLCUnited States13
  2. 5VC Autocar LLCUnited States13
  3. SJZ Autocar LimitedUnited Kingdom1

Source: NHTSA vPIC, October 2026 release (database updated October 17, 2026). How the figures are counted: How the catalog is read.