Toyota running overtime

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Toyota runs overtime at all North American plants

Posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 3:18 PM EST.(Employee News)

Toyota Motor Corp. is running overtime at all its North American plants to keep up with demand and replenish low stocks of vehicles, Automotive News reported.

Toyota’s latest boost in North American production comes at its plant in Woodstock, Ontario. Toyota, seizing on strong sales momentum for its small Toyota RAV4 crossover, said today that it will “immediately” begin hiring a second shift of 800 workers for the Woodstock plant, the trade paper said. Toyota’s robust production schedule represents a reversal of its situation in the first quarter of this year, when it was curtailing production days, reducing headcount and thinning out backed-up inventories along with the rest of the U.S. industry, the Automotive News said.

The start of a second shift at Woodstock was delayed last year as economic problems mounted, and it is more than a year behind schedule, Tanguay told the paper. Toyota’s plants in Woodstock and Cambridge, Ontario, have been operating on overtime at nine hours a day and some Saturdays. Even Toyota’s production lines at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in Fremont, Calif., have been running some Saturdays to replenish inventories of Toyota Corollas, the story said. (Automotive News)