Amid all the worry that the USA is running out of workers, having arrived at full employment, here’s a story from today’s WSJ that reports the availability of 1,200 reliable folks.
"Daimler to Lay Off More Than 1,200 at North Carolina Truck Plants Falling demand for Freightliner trucks as U.S. industrial activity slows <snip> After a stretch of elevated buying of trucks in recent years, trucking companies have been scaling back their purchases as U.S. industrial activity slows and demand for freight-hauling service weakens. January orders for heavy-duty trucks in North America fell by nearly 50% from a year earlier to about 18,200 vehicles. Production of heavy-duty trucks in 2016 is expected to be down 10% to 20% from 2015.” full, if you can get it, at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/daimler-to-lay-off-more-than-1-200-at-north-carolina-truck-plants-1455584141 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
