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Another piece of America lost!

Speedpup ยท 2009-07-31 23:25

Friday, July 31, 2009 GM permanently shuts down line at Flint Truck Associated Press Flint -- General Motors Co.'s medium-duty commercial truck business is going away. The production finale is planned for this morning when the Detroit automaker shuts down an assembly line inside the Flint Truck Assembly plant. The Flint Journal and WJRT-TV say 36-year plant worker Richard Smith will drive the final truck off the line. Advertisement UAW Local 598 Chairman Dana Rouse says Smith has worked on the commercial truck line since it moved to Flint from a GM plant in Janesville, Wis., in 2002. GM in June told nearly 400 Flint Truck workers their jobs on the commercial truck line were being eliminated after the automaker failed to sell the money-losing business. A larger assembly line that makes heavy-duty passenger trucks remains inside the plant.

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  1. #1Steve Frazier2009-08-01 02:51

    What the heck is a "heavy duty passenger truck"???

  2. #2Dualie2009-08-03 00:56

    think crew cab dualie

  3. #3Turbo218352009-08-03 05:09

    Think 2500 and 3500 truck in general