Build times for HD's will likely get longer

[64BAwagon]

The Flint plant has been rolled back to 5 day per week production as of last week. This includes personnel assigned to pre shipping repairs. This will definitely effect the GMC orders to a greater extent due to Flint being the sole builder of GMC HD's. I dont have any news on Oshawa.  

Rumors are that the sales of EV's and the failures at the EV plant in Hamtramck and the lack of availability of battery packs to meet demand are effecting the offsets needed for sales in the 6 states that have signed on to CA emissions. 

I said some time ago that I felt the HD market was in the sights of the EPA and that the RV community would be along for that ride because of their need for HD trucks. 

This is all part of the cost cutting and layoffs from last week. Lots of people were unceremoniously walked out of Warren with a box full of their personal belongings. 

[revrnd]

2 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

The Flint plant has been rolled back to 5 day per week production as of last week. This includes personnel assigned to pre shipping repairs. This will definitely effect the GMC orders to a greater extent due to Flint being the sole builder of GMC HD's. I dont have any news on Oshawa.  

Rumors are that the sales of EV's and the failures at the EV plant in Hamtramck and the lack of availability of battery packs to meet demand are effecting the offsets needed for sales in the 6 states that have signed on to CA emissions. 

I said some time ago that I felt the HD market was in the sights of the EPA and that the RV community would be along for that ride because of their need for HD trucks. 

This is all part of the cost cutting and layoffs from last week. Lots of people were unceremoniously walked out of Warren with a box full of their personal belongings. 

Mary has to get her year end bonus...

 

I haven't heard anything about Oshawa. I will touch base w/ brother.

Edited November 19, 2024 by revrnd

[64BAwagon]

I heard she was on track for over 80 million this year by exercising stock options not to mention she is on the board of Disney, as if she needs a side hustle. I should have paid more attention to her when we were in school. 

[revrnd]

24 minutes ago, 64BAwagon said:

I heard she was on track for over 80 million this year by exercising stock options not to mention she is on the board of Disney, as if she needs a side hustle. I should have paid more attention to her when we were in school. 

 

A lot of my co-workers (myself included) shake our heads knowing her father was a tool and die maker. Obviously being a humble person isn't one of her qualities. She seems cut from the same cloth as the corporate ladder climbers we dealt w/ over the years. My last general supervisor (hired as a journeyman a couple of months after I finished my apprenticeship) was described the following way. *He'd lay off his grandmother if it meant he'd get a bonus*.

[revrnd]

Brother is going to message a 'comedyman' he knows in the plant.

[Pryme]

3 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

I heard she was on track for over 80 million this year by exercising stock options not to mention she is on the board of Disney, as if she needs a side hustle. I should have paid more attention to her when we were in school. 

You guys went to highschool together? What was she like?

[64BAwagon]

I grew up in GM's backyard so a lot of people in the area worked for them. During high school and after I worked at an industrial supply house right next to the assembly plant in Pontiac, some of the people I worked with knew John Delorean personally. 

 

   I do know she wasnt into guys with 57 Chevys because I had one.   Lets just say we ran in different circles. 

Edited November 19, 2024 by 64BAwagon

[revrnd]

I'm a third generation lifer in Oshawa LOL. So I knew some of the 'behind the scenes politics' over the years. Lots of others like me. At least I didn't gravitate to the line after high school (I took drafting thru it).

 

My brother was in the same grade/classes as one middle management flunkie (his father was the same), possible GMI grad. Brother said hello to him 1 day & he acted like he had never seen him before.

 

I knew a lot of guys by name in high school, but weren't classmates. Ended up knowing them better thru the apprenticeship of in the ensuing years as journeyman. Plus a lot of production guys. I never acted like I was better than them.

Edited November 19, 2024 by revrnd

[revrnd]

3 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

I do know she wasnt into guys with 57 Chevys because I had one.   Lets just say we ran in different circles. 

Sounds like one of the 'mucky mucks' as I called them.

[C/K Man]

The whole CARB thing is complicated.  BEV offsets factor in, but the upcoming diesel emission regulations are another issue that is starting to have an effect.  Gasoline powered trucks are not as effected, but several current diesel engines will not be available in CARB states starting in the 2026 MY.  The Chevy/Isuzu LCF's were gasoline only in CARB states for 2024 (2025 MY) except for the larger Cummins powered 6500 and 7500.  Saw a distribution update for the 6500 and 7500 as of last month and it says the CARB emissions option is not available to order for the 2026 MY, which will start 1st. quarter 2025. 

[64BAwagon]

13 hours ago, revrnd said:

Sounds like one of the 'mucky mucks' as I called them.

Not really, her family was much like many others in the area. I have friends that knew her much better. We lived in a typical suburban area. 

[revrnd]

2 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

Not really, her family was much like many others in the area. I have friends that knew her much better. We lived in a typical suburban area. 

 

Ours was too in the NE part of Oshawa. There were some that thought they were better than others though. Nothing like Bloomfield Hills in the area LOL

[C/K Man]

I would rather have Barra as CEO than Farley at Ford or any of that brain trust at Stellantis. 

Edited November 20, 2024 by C/K Man

[64BAwagon]

The one I dont get is Mark Reuss. 

[revrnd]

6 minutes ago, 64BAwagon said:

The one I dont get is Mark Reuss. 

?

 

He did say that ICEs wouldn't disappear @ GM. That on the surface seems @ odds with GM's future.