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Nov 16, 2008

TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * USA - Kenworth layoffs to top 400

Renton truck production cut

Seattle,Wash,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer, by BILL VIRGIN -November 14, 2008: -- Kenworth Truck Co. plans to lay off more than 400 workers and end most truck production at its Renton plant as a two-year slump in truck sales moves into a third... Kenworth officials said that 329 union and 92 management employees will be laid off. In a filing with the state Employment Security Department on Friday, Kenworth put the number of layoffs at 430... The plant will continue to produce daily two of the large off-road trucks used in such industries as mining and oil-field development, Hursey said... But production of conventional Class 8 heavy-duty highway trucks will be shifted to Kenworth's plant in Chillicothe, Ohio...

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