GM to add 3rd shift, 750 jobs at Flint truck plant

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General Motors Co. announced today that it is adding a third shift and 750 jobs at its Flint, Mich., assembly plant in response to healthy demand for heavy duty versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra pickups.

“Our heavy duty pickups are especially hot,” Mark Reuss, GM's president of North America, told hundreds of workers gathered on the plant floor.

Reuss told reporters that GM is “having a hard time supplying” heavy duty and crew-cab trucks, and that growing demand in recent months helped trigger the decision to produce more.

Re-engineered versions of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy duties were released last summer. The Silverado HD was named the 2011 Motor Trend Truck of the Year.



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1. Yup, we should have let GM go out of business.

:sarcasm:

The fact that commercial vehicles are in demand suggests that those businesses are also on the rise.

The GM turn-around was a great success and the POTUS deserves the credit for making it possible.

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2. If you have ever ridden in a HD, you'll know they aren't family vehicles

harsh ride, noisy, sit way too high up for most families to put stuff in the bed. They are work trucks, period. landscapers, construction of all types, towing of all types. And expensive.

Yup GM should have failed and we should have let Toyota build the trucks America needs......

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3. That one needs some frame welding. nt

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4. The new Cruise, Volt, Malibu and Impala are family vehicles.

Pretty impressive new line-up. Ford has some good ones too. A friend of mine has a Fusion Hybrid be bought under the cash-for-clunkers program. He's pretty happy with it.

Sorry, but Crysler still sucks.

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5. k&r, but I disagree on 1 point

My Dad has a 2004 Chevy Silverado Crew Cab 2500 HD Duramax/Allison, which is the smallest-size truck we need to comfortably tow a tractor and some other heavy equipment (~10,000 lb. loads).

Despite its HD rating, it is very comfortable to ride in. I've been in the back seat on 16 hour road trips, and while it's no luxury-liner, the ride is perfectly acceptable.

Not everything about the truck is perfect, but GM is doing a pretty good job with its HD pickups.

k&r

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