Freightliner Cutting Back

[Shelby Griggs]

News in the PNW on Tuesday.



Freightliner announces closure of the Portland, OR factory in 2010.



Also announced the end of the line for Sterling trucks.



Portland's Freightliner plant to close in June 2010 | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | News



SHG

 

[Wayne M.]

More ax swinging thanks to damiler. They were and are real bad news. I'd bet if an investor stepped up to buy Sterling just to keep the name alive, they wouldn't sell just to keep it dead.

 

[BVol]

just as we were converting the work fleet to Sterling!