Established to give Plymouth and De Soto dealers a truck line to sell in the U.S. and Canada, the Fargo brand had recently launched when Chrysler Corporation purchased Dodge Brothers in 1928.

A Fargo truck driver was killed Monday night in an accident two miles south of Sisseton, S.D. David Rook, 48, was northbound on Interstate 29 when he rear-ended another semi, South Dakota State ...