[pjjjjj]

Guess not enough people are buying Sterlings:
(from cbc.ca)

720 jobs slashed at Ont. truck plant

Last Updated: Thursday, July 17, 2008 | 6:03 AM ET Comments18Recommend13CBC News

A truck plant in the southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas is the latest company in the auto sector to cut hundreds of jobs as the industry falters due to an economic slowdown.

Sterling Truck Corp. has announced 720 jobs will be slashed, on top of nearly 600 previous layoffs.

Media reports state the workers will receive official layoff notices Thursday and be out of work by November.

Local union chair Dave MacArthur blamed economic slowdown south of the border as hurting demand for trucks.

The latest layoffs will have a ripple effect on St. Thomas that could see thousands more handed the pink slip in the region's parts and services sector, said Bob Hammersley, chief executive of the St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce.

"It is so severe, it is depressing," Hammersley told the London Free Press.

Ontario's automotive industry has seen thousands of jobs slashed due to rising fuel prices and the troubled U.S. economy.

The city was also hit in mid-June with 400 jobs cut at a Magna International Inc. plant that makes frames for General Motors pickups.

[P51bombay]

Originally Posted by D Team Brothers

Engine is MBE 4000/450. With 90,000 miles a small oil leak developed up near the head gasket. Tore top off and found a small O ring that seemed a little brittle - leaking. Took three days to get replacment O ring! I'm afraid it's only the beginning. My two 03 Centuries with Cummins just keep cruising down the road, and both reaching 1 mil. miles. I agree, don't buy NEW!

Or perhaps don't by a Daimler product, I've not heard anything negative about a Cummins emissions engine - anyone else?

[x06col]

Watching all those "pretty" trucks sit on the side of the road or in a repair shop lot makes me real thankfull for my wayyy pre emission 1992 tree thousand dolla Farmall. She wern't pretty, but, knew how to git R done.

[OntarioVanMan]

Talk about economy stimulous....I hope all them GM buyouts do come on in....and deposit their money and in a year or less they'll be gone...especilly some S/R's i've run into....

[dhalltoyo]

Actually I bought two 2008 trucks.

I have already begun to spec a C unit.
(Just in case the FMCSA decides to change the rules)

[arrbsthw]

misunderstood the subject.. thought I had something to say but
didn't