Wonder why Cat pulled out of the on road market?
Several reasons:
1) they had a small part of the market. Then Daimler (Freightliner and now Western Star) bought Detroit, giving them a proprietary engine. Next, Paccar (Kenworth and Peterbilt) merged with DAF, which gave then the MX-13 as a proprietary engine. Volvo/Mack had their proprietary MP ENGINE. International had / has their own engine (now merged with Volkswagen/Scania). That left Cat to fight with Cummins over the leftovers.
2) they had a LOT of difficulty meeting the regulations, and their ACERT line was an unmitigated disastrous first attempt at EGR, barely better than International’s MaxForce debacle.
3) the on road portion of Cat’s business was a minuscule part of their overall portfolio, and they needed their engineering focus on the big money makers so they would not get caught with their pants down (again) when the off road regs caught up with the on road regs. It gave them a number of years to get the engineering right, and they mostly did.