We reported earlier this month that Toyota runs some of the most efficient plants in the U.S., with plants achieving 100-percent overall capacity. Falling truck sales, though, mean that Toyota -- like other U.S. automakers -- may look to maintain efficiency by increasing production of smaller, better selling cars to complement scaled-down truck and SUV production.
Production cuts will be made at a Texas plant that builds the Tundra, the Indiana plant building both the Tundra and Sequoia, and the Alabama plant which produces Tundra and Sequoia engines.
At the Texas plant, workers will have 14 days of additional holidays by the end of October. In Indiana, production will be halted for six days in August, the same month that the Alabama plant shuts down for five days.
Toyota barely missed its 200,000-unit sales goal for the Tundra in 2007, and if sales don't pick up in the second half of this year, the automaker can probably expect results closer to May's Tundra sales -- down 34% -- rather than Tundra sales year-to-date through May -- up 6.8%.
Source: JCN Newswire