The first customer-ready new Ford Expedition rolled off the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Michigan, in March.
But look out: Demand for SUVs, while still very strong, is flattening (see chart, below), while overall light-truck plant capacity is still growing fast.
Chrysler's truck plant in Curitiba is by no means unique, says Carl Swanson, the managing director of the South American operations of Tenneco Automotive, a car-parts firm.
Seven suppliers helped to erect a Volkswagen truck plant in the town, and employ three-quarters of the factory's 1, 400 workers, even participating in the truck's final assembly.
At the Aiken County truck plant, 400 of the 560 acres are given up to mixed-pine forests, and the company has planted tens of thousands of native and threatened longleaf pines, which can grow to 90 feet.
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Small enough to fit on a large kitchen table, the new reactors can be manufactured at very low cost and shipped by truck to power-plant sites.
Kentucky Truck, the largest auto assembly plant in the US and the home of the Ford F-Series, ran tight over the summer to keep up with demand and from the looks of it Ford dealers will still be running short on trucks.
Tepco, the Japanese power company that owns the Fukushima plant has reportedly ordered 10 truck-mounted gas turbines from General Electric.
It will be transported by ship to Los Angeles and then by truck to the SpaceX company's plant in McGregor, Texas.
Last summer 11 workers at the Urbana plant were hospitalized after a truck driver failed to attach a hose correctly and they were exposed to sulfuric acid.
Last week a new medium duty truck was allocated to Nissan's Avila Plant in central Spain.
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The likely output of the Windsor plant is a snazzy small pickup truck called the Dodge M-80, aimed at young buyers with limited budgets.
In fact, I visited the plant before it had produced its very first truck.
In 2007 Robert and Rosella Bear, who live next door to an Ohio Fresh Eggs plant in Marseilles, Ohio, noticed a truck with license plates from Iowa.
Freund, 49, a truck driver and jewelry store owner, says he never gave the Rohm and Haas plant a second thought until Joanne Branham came back to town.
Every 20 minutes a truck rolls up to a Nissan loading dock, dropping off seats that were manufactured by Johnson Controls at a new plant it built two miles away.
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