* Mississippi - PACCAR may add equipment, jobs
-- The world’s fifth largest truck maker could be expanding capacity at its Lowndes County plant, creating about 20 jobs... Scott Blue, the manager of PACCAR’s truck engine manufacturing and assembly plant, says the 420,000-square-foot plant already has positions for new machining equipment. It’s just discussing how much capacity it needs to add... The 5-year-old plant employs 520 people and turns out 140 engines a day. Low fuel prices continue to help the trucking and freight business from top to bottom, despite the fact that new EPA emissions regulations in the last seven years have added $20,000 to the price of each truck... PACCAR has posted profits for 76 straight years and since 2004, has gained market share in the U.S. every year. It now has 29 percent of the domestic truck market... Its engines are built to last a million miles on the road... The Lowndes County plant's safety record tops national averages for the industry and its the safest plant among more than 30 PACCAR operates. It's also environmentally riendly, recycling or reusing every product and scrap, sending nothing to landfills...
Columbus, MISS, USA - WTVA, by Steve Rogers - Nov. 3, 2015
* Pennsylvania - Layoffs likely to hit Mack Trucks
-- Mack Trucks' assembly plant in the Lehigh Valley likely will be hit with layoffs, though the extent of the planned reduction is not yet known... Mack expects the heavy-duty truck market to decline about 10 percent in 2016 and needs to adapt production at its Lehigh Valley operations to meet market demands, Mack spokeswoman Kim Pupillo said in an email. "It's too soon to say how many employees will be affected, but as soon as we do quantify the impact, we'll be communicating it to our employees first," she said... Several industry analysts expect heavy-duty truck production to peak this year. In a recent report, Stifel Financial Corp. estimates North American heavy-duty truck production will decline about 15 percent next year...
(Photo by CHRIS SHIPLEY / THE MORNING CALL: A July 1 file photo of Mack's plant in Lower Macungie, where 1,870 work. Layoffs are likely there in the coming months, as Mack plans to adapt its employment needs to better fit market demands) -- Lower Macungie Township, PENN, USA - The Morning Call, by Jon Harris and Anthony Salamone
* Pennsylvania - Poindexter buys Reading Truck Body
-- J. B. Poindexter & Co. Inc. acquired work-truck body maker Reading Truck Body, in a transaction that closed October 30... Reading Truck Body includes Reading Truck Body, LLC, which has a manufacturing plant in Reading, PA, and five company-owned installation facilities operating as Reading Equipment &Distribution, LLC. Reading will operate as an independent business unit within JBPCO... J. B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. is a privately-held, diversified manufacturing company, with operating subsidiaries engaged in producing commercial truck and van bodies, step-vans, funeral coaches, limousines, pickup-truck bed enclosures and tonneau covers, precision machined components and expandable foam plastics...
Reading, PENN, USA - For Constructions Pros - NOV 3, 2015Labels: truckmakers' news USA
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