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Given the tires' value, one feature that operators like about them is their heft. "At least they're rarely stolen," says Gregg Hoss, CEO of Hoss Equipment, a national mining-equipment company. "It'd be pretty tough to throw 7,500 lbs. of rubber into the back of a pickup." Just you wait...
...gallant, possibly misguided, pug known to the sports pages as "the Bayonne Bleeder." There really was (and is) a guy named Vince Papale, and he really did make the team in 1976, at age 30, having played just one year of high school football, plus a lot of pickup games in empty lots. He is impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged...
...Thomas LaSorda, Chrysler Group's chief executive officer, also notes that 40% of pickup trucks are sold via big discounts."You can still move the market with incentives. We've protected our share but its become more expensive,"LaSorda says. In addition, the competition in the segment is also about to get tougher as GM launches a new truck this fall and Toyota puts its new truck in showroom floors in January, LaSorda says...
...back in January, which included plans for eliminating as many as 30,000 jobs and 14 plants, Pipas says. Ford now plans to cut its total production in the fourth quarter by more than 21%. Almost half the cuts will be concentrated at four plants where the company builds pickup trucks, says Pipas."We know th is decision will have a dramatic impact on our employees, as well as our suppliers,"William Clay Ford, the company's chairman and CEO, said in a note to employees Aug. 18."This is, however, the right call for our customers, our dealers...
...Fields also says the new products such as the Ford Edge, due in the next few months, are designed to replace sport utility vehicles that have fallen into disfavor since the post-Katrina energy shock jolted the U.S. economy. In addition, Ford also has announced plans for a large pickup truck, aimed specifically at the commercial truck market, that's equipped with a new cleaner and more efficient diesel engine...