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Japan earthquake affects GM small p/u plant

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Get your Chevrolet Colorado or GMC Canyon while they last. I wonder what else it will affect.


SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - General Motors will temporarily stop production work at its Shreveport truck plant, a direct result of the earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan.

The plant, which makes the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon small trucks, will shut down its production line at the end of its Thursday shift. GM says employees will be laid off the week of March 21, and there's no time frame on restarting production.

While GM does not have a production plant in Japan, some of the parts needed to build the truck come from Japanese suppliers. GM would not say which parts they are lacking.

GM says the natural disaster has not affected any of its other North American plants.

GM's Shreveport plant has 800 factory workers.

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GM cant get parts from Japan
 
I have no idea why GM makes a 9/10's sized truck anyways. Just sell the 1500 and be done with it.They are competing against themselves.
 
You know? This is just another example of what happens when a nation with all of the natural resources that we have quits manufacturing for all of the reasons that we have stopped manufacturing, and when they shutdown, so do we. Will we ever learn?

All politics and blame aside, my point is simple...we make nothing anymore, and here is just another example that when the folks that do, shutdown, so do we. Now, oil and pickup trucks. Next, bubble gum and then toilet paper. Never ever going to get ourselves out of debt that way.

Mark
 
I say it is a perfect time to start building the needed parts at home . Saw on the news that there could be a shortage of eggs because we import alot of eggs from that area , there is no reson to be eating a egg from anywhere but the usa ! Point is while you have to feel for these people over there we should take advanage of the situation and open up some shops .
 
They make the Colorado's there. I read that they are short a 5 speed manual trans, made by Aisin, in Japan.
 
The only eggs we eat come from our hen house. If a few more people would do that we wouldn't have some of the supply problems we do.
 
BINGO!

In the mid 1980s, while a senior design engineer for GM, I strongly advocated against adopting Japanese style JIT procedures here in the US (for different reasons), and was laughed out of the room by other more senior folks who, while competent engineers, knew little or nothing of history, labor relations, busines disciplines or the Japanese culture.

Several years later the UAW struck a relatively small plant making critical components, thereby curtailing production at all GM assembly plants within days without depleting the strike fund.

Dean
 
Most people don't need a full size. The Dakota has gotten too big, Chrysler is talking about downsizing it to a compact again. There are people who can't handle a truck bigger than the Colorado, and places that you can't fit one, either.
 
I was laugh at too about the same time but the company that I worked at did learn after a while that it wasn't as great as they thought it was. I didn't hear much after that.
 
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