Daimler Truck NA Temporarily Lays Off 573 in North Carolina
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Daimler Truck North America is temporarily laying off 573 workers at its two Mount Holly sites, according to a North Carolina Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act report filed July 11 with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
The “mass layoffs” will be effective at the Custom Truck Services facility 1803 Main St. and the manufacturing plant at 1800 N. Main St., according to the report.
The layoffs are “due to a sustained reduction in orders and diminished build rate,” Daimler Truck North Carolina Human Resources Manager Steve Griffin said in the company’s WARN report letter to the state.
The job cuts are expected to be temporary but for an unknown duration, Griffin said.
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Employees affected will receive a payment at each employee’s regular pay rate through Sept. 9, the report states.
The majority of jobs affected are truck assemblers as well as material handlers, office supervisors, technicians and painters.
Daimler Truck officials did not immediately respond for comment July 14.
Daimler Truck North America designs, engineers, manufactures and markets medium- and heavy-duty trucks, school buses, vehicle chassis and their associated technologies and components under several brands. Some of them are Freightliner, Western Star and Thomas Built Buses.
The Mount Holly plant makes medium-duty Freightliner trucks.
Daimler has other plants in the Charlotte region, according to Daimler’s website:
- Daimler Truck Remarketing Corp., 2477 Deerfield Road, Fort Mill, S.C.
- Cleveland Truck Manufacturing Plant, 11550 Statesville Blvd., Cleveland, N.C.
- Gastonia Components and Logistics, 1400 Tulip Drive, Gastonia
Back in 2016, the company cut more than 900 jobs in response to “a diminished build rate,” according to The Charlotte Observer archives. Around the same time, Daimler also temporarily laid off about 700 employees at its Mount Holly facility, and about 550 at its Cleveland plant.
The North America business is a subsidiary of Germany-based Daimler Truck Holding AG. It operates 40 production sites with more than 100,000 employees.
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