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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS
* USA - Mack Trucks' business cut by half - Drivers bought last year, before pricey emissions standards took effect
Allentown,PA,USA -The Allentown Morning Call, by Spencer Soper -May 12, 2007: -- Mack Truck deliveries continued their expected slump in March, dropping nearly 50 percent from the same month in 2006, its parent company Volvo AB reported Friday... Mack delivered 1,834 trucks in March, down 49 percent from 3,587 in the same month last year. It was the company's lowest March since 2003, when it delivered 1,177 trucks... The company had braced for a downturn in deliveries last fall by announcing it would lay off 450 workers at its Lower Macungie Township plant, where it makes heavy-duty trucks. The cuts reduced the plant's work force of 1,000 by more than 40 percent...
* USA - Paccar announces location for new plant
COLUMBUS,Miss,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -14 May 2007: -- Paccar finally ended speculation of where it was going to build its new $400 million powertrain manufacturing facility and Technology Center... The lucky town selected by the parent company of Peterbilt and Kenworth Trucks is Columbus, in north Mississippi... Production of new 13 and 9-liter engines at the new, 400,000 sq ft plant could start by 2010...
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