Well, I'm job hunting right now. My company is laying
off 50 workers out of 345 on friday. Now I've got
senority over only 23 people. We lost the Detroit
Diesel Series 60 engine block. DaimlerChrysler is
moving that contract to Mercedes's South African
facility. We are also losing the Mopar Performance
426/440 Hemi NHRA engine block. That block is going
to a foundry in Mexico. Things don't look good. We
cast 5 engine blocks for Cummins Engine and those
orders have declined dramtically. We also cast Mack
Engine blocks and Renault wants to move all Mack Truck
production to Europe. The blocks to Spain and the
trucks to France. So, things look very bleak in the
foundry business. At least in the United
States/Canadian areas.
--- Mike Styer <m_styer@go.com> wrote:
> It seems like a slow day on the DML (well not for
> Bernd and the ricers that fell out of his bed, err,
> he spanked ;). I have been wondering who has the
> most miles on their Dakota? These are odometer
> verified miles on any gen Dak. Tell us how many
> repairs/mods you did, too. Obviously, a new engine
> every 50,000 miles isnt as impressive as 250k with
> the same old one that has never been rebuilt.
>
> Saturday afternoon I hit the 200,000 mark. Yes I
> took a picture, and it along with some updated
> pictures will be on my website in a couple weeks,
> but the biggest repair on my truck has been
> replacing some sensors and the timing belt. Now I
> know I certainly dont qualify as top, or shall we
> say oldest dog, but still...i am proud of my truck
> :)
>
> Mike S.
> 93 V6 5-speed CC 2wd Sport
> 200,284 miles as of 6:00 pm 5/15/01
> www.geocities.com/geek_farm/truck.html
>
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