It distributed Hyundai-made trucks with American automotive components.
In partnership with Hyundai Motor Company of Korea, three classes of trucks were launched into the US market.
[3] Litigation ensued; in an international arbitration between Bering and Hyundai, the arbitration panel found (in 2004) that Hyundai had breached its agreements with Bering in bad faith.
A federal antitrust case filed by Bering against Hyundai and Daimler-Chrysler was settled out of court in 2006.
[4] Today, after a lawsuit against Hyundai and Daimler-Chrysler in 2006, Bering Truck moved its business to Panama from the United States, changed its business from truck manufacturer and distributor to an importer of South Korean used vehicles in Panama and renamed as Bering Motors SA in Panama.