WILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va.
– Hino Motors is
rolling out more than two dozen trucks daily off its assembly line in Wood County
Company spokesman Sandy Ring said
that number will increase in Septmember, when Hino “will boost up production to
about 29 trucks a day.”
That’s good news for a facility
where temporary workers were laid off in January after a not-so-stellar fourth
quarter of 2012. But Ring said the plant has added to its workforce in the past
few months, climbing to 176 employees.
“We try to maintain stable
production based on forecasts, but clearly, as you see in any number of
industries, people react quickly to market conditions,” Ring explained. “They
may feel confident and go buy and the for a couple weeks there’s a lack of
consumer confidence and they delay purchases.”
Hino produces box trucks for
commercial use. They opened the West
Virginia
The facility plans to roll out it 2015 model
trucks next February or March, he said.
