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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS
* USA - Freightliner Adds to Job Slump
Portland, Ore,USA -The Oregonian/Layover -30 Mar 2007: -- The last Freightliner-branded commercial truck rolled off the production line in Portland Thursday night, catapulting 750 workers onto the unemployment rolls and into a job market that's suddenly cooler than a parked sleeper rig at dawn... Even before the truckmaker's massive layoff, Oregon manufacturers had been shedding jobs since August at a faster rate than the rest of the nation... A report this week about disappointing orders for durable goods -- the type of big-ticket items that many Oregon manufacturers make for other businesses -- suggests to some economists that the U.S. economy might be headed for recession...
* USA - Peterbilt facilities in full production with 2008 models
Louisville,Ky,USA -The Trucker -March 30, 2007: -- Peterbilt Motors Co. said during a news conference at the 2007 Mid-America Trucking Show here that both Peterbilt heavy-duty truck manufacturing facilities and the PACCAR facility that assembles Peterbilt’s medium-duty vehicles are in full production with the company’s new product lineup of 2008 models...
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