Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) is looking at exporting fully-built nine-tonne buses to the Middle East by the end of the current year, claim industry sources. The company is currently exporting nine-tonne bus chassis to South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Chennai plant of DICV is a Wrightbus bus body building facility. Claimed to have a 24,000 unit capacity, the facility makes BharatBenz staff, school and tourist buses, and a Mercedes-Benz luxury coach on the O500L chassis. For global expansion, Daimler is looking at Indian built trucks to play a role. It showcased a 37-tonne BharatBenz 3723R five-axle rigid truck at the Hannover CV show. Claimed to have sold over 40,000 heavy-duty and medium-duty India-made trucks since the last four years, Daimler also showcased Fuso TV-R, a heavy-duty tractor made in India. In India, DICV produces and sells BharatBenz trucks ranging between nine- and 49-tonnes.