To stop pickup production in 2009? anyone else see that? Just saw on teh news.. hope noone is waiting for theirs to be built. Talk about pissed off employees...


Big Three to Temporarily Halt Production at Some Pickup Plants [/align]By Josee Valcourt, Terry Kosdrosky and Mike Spector [/align]Word Count: 457 | Companies Featured in This Article: General Motors, Ford Motor [/align]
DETROIT -- The Big Three auto makers, in response to a further slackening of truck sales, plan to halt production of full-size pickups for part or all of January, a move likely to strain each company's turnaround plans.
Chrysler LLC will halt production at plants in Warren, Mich., and Fenton, Mo., right before Christmas and extend the shutdown through all of January, people familiar with the company's plans said.
A third truck plant in Mexico will shut down for the first two weeks of the month, said people familiar with those plants' ...[/align]

 

I doubt the employeesare too pissed. They get to draw unemployment for a month.

 

hhmmmm. . .. I'm going to look at this in a different light the news outlets wont. . .

plants are temporarily shutting down production to retool the assembly lines. . . . .

 

Most likely they have more then a 60-day supply of trucks in inventory and they need to lower the inventory level before they make any more trucks.

 

i more than likely thinking it's got to do with what drew said. retooling everything. my dad's work does that about once a year. go on shutdown for about 3 wks to get everything set up for new model year.

 

Here's my observation. Where I work we make the charge air tubes for the powerstroke and the Duramax. GM has not mentioned anything about a shutdown. Ford had shutdowns scheduled for 2 weeks per month from October thru Febuary. As of right now there order numbers are down, but canceled all the shutdowns except for Feburary, and the powers that be expect that one to be canceled to in the future. Right now we are producing 3-1 duramax to ford. There are also prototype tubes in the works for the small ford and gm diesels for there 1/2 ton trucks. Also some prototyping for Toyota diesels. Looks like 2009 is going to be a good year. As for retool, this usually happens around June or July. Lately, ford has been big into mid-year into's on there trucks. We started with the Ford 6.4 liter in 2006.

 

I live near the Saturn plant here in TN and half of the town works there. It is not uncommon for it to be shut down for maintenance and re-tooling work.

 

The employees get 95% of their regular pay so i'm sure they are just fine. A buddy of mine works at a plant and he's looking at at least 3 months off this year not counting regular vacation days. I'm in the wrong business