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Ford Increases Truck Production
It seems that Cash for Clunkers really pulled automakers out of economic troubles and low sales. The manufacturers do not worry any more about sales and are counting the great profits after the program. Ford is so excited about big auto sales that it decided to increase the production by adding shifts to the truck plants in Missouri and Michigan.
The changes will start this fall. At first the company plans to restore the three-shift operation at the truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan to increase the production of F-150 pickup trucks to 10,000 vehicles. This will start in September. A month after that the third shift will come to the plant in Missouri which assembles Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner. Thanks to Cash for Clunkers Escape became one of the top 10 most selling vehicles.
Ford vice president of marketing, sales and service, Ken Czubay thinks that the high demand on Ford vehicles will remain even after the government program is over. So far, July has been the most profitable month in 2009 for the company, but Czubay thinks that August data will be even higher.
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