GMC, formally the GMC Division of General Motors LLC, is an American vehicles division of the American maker General Motors (GM) that fundamentally concentrates on trucks and utility vehicles. GMC offers pickup and business trucks, transports, vans, military vehicles, and game utility vehicles showcased in North America and the Middle East by General Motors. In January 2007, GMC was GM’s second-biggest-offering North American vehicle division after Chevrolet, in front of Pontiac.General Motors was established by William C. Durant on September 16, 1908, as a holding organization for Buick. In 1909, GM obtained the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company, shaping the premise of the General Motors Truck Company, from which the “GMC Truck” brand name was determined. (Fast was made on December 22, 1901, by Max Grabowsky. The organization created a percentage of the most punctual business trucks ever outlined, and used one-barrel motors.) The Reliance Motor Car Company (an alternate free producer) was additionally bought that same year by GM. Fast and Reliance were united in 1911, and in 1912 the marque “GMC Truck” initially showed up on vehicles displayed at the New York International Auto Show. In the range of 22,000 trucks were generated that year, however GMC’s commitment to that aggregate was an unimportant 372 units. GMC had some cash inside GM alluding to the corporate parent by and large. Later “GMC” might get unique as a division mark inside the enterprise, marking trucks and mentors; interestingly, the contraction for the general partnership in the end wound up as “GM”.

In 1916, a GMC Truck crossed the nation from Seattle to New York City in thirty days, and in 1926, a 2-ton GMC truck was determined from New York to San Francisco in five days and 30 minutes. Throughout the Second World War, GMC Truck handled 600,000 trucks for utilization by the United States Armed Forces.

In 1925, GM acquired a controlling enthusiasm toward Yellow Coach, a transport producer situated in Chicago, Illinois which was established by John D. Hertz. In the wake of acquiring the remaining divide in 1943, GM renamed it GM Truck and Coach Division. The Division fabricated interurban mentors until 1980. Travel transport creation finished in May 1987. The Canadian plant (in London, Ontario) generated transports from 1962 until July 1987. GM withdrew from the transport and mentor market on account of expanded rivalry in the late 1970s and 1980s. Rights to the RTS model were sold to Transportation Manufacturing Corporation, while Motor Coach Industries of Canada acquired the Classic outline.

In 2002, GMC discharged a book entitled, GMC: The First 100 Years, a complete history of the organization.

GMC presently makes Suvs, pickup trucks, vans, light-obligation trucks, and medium obligation trucks. Previously, GMC likewise prepared flame trucks, ambulances, overwhelming-obligation trucks, military vehicles, Rvs, and travel transports.