Articles Tagged with ''truck and trailer manufacturing''

STE-THERESE, QC—Some 900 employees at PACCAR’s truck assembly plant here have rejected the company’s final contract negotiation offer. After two months of negotiations, the contract was rejected by 76 percent of employees only hours after management decided to lock out its employees.

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, PA—Mack Trucks Inc. has agreed to pay a $54,800 fine and properly manage hazardous waste at its assembly plant here in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

DEARBORN, MI—The first all-aluminum F-150 pickup truck has rolled off Ford’s assembly line here.

CLEVELAND, NC—Daimler Trucks is trying to fill more than 300 positions at its Freightliner assembly plant here, but the company is having trouble finding enough qualified workers in the area. The company has been hiring since April and wants to have more than 1,000 new employees by the end of the year.

A love for farming and serving farmers are what drove husband and wife Loren and Jean Van Wyk to found LDJ Manu-facturing in Pella, IA, in 1995.

DUBLIN, VA—Volvo Trucks North America says it will invest $69 million in improvements at its New River Valley plant in Dublin.

MACUNGIE, PA—Mack Trucks will invest $26 million to renovate its assembly plant here.

LISLE, IL—Navistar International is increasing production rates at its heavy truck assembly plant in Escobedo, Mexico, and its bus assembly plant in Tulsa, OK.

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, PA—Mack Trucks assembly plant here was evacuated Tuesday after a newly assembled truck caught fire at a test and inspection station.

LOWER MACUNGIE, PA—Mack Trucks will hire 100 workers for its assembly plant here.