Who Won - McDermid started second in his No. 24 Felice Race Engines/Lane Auto Ford Mustang but got the jump on polesitter Jason Von Kluge s No. 78 Mr. K s racing Ford Mustang at the start on the damp, but drying track. McDermid held a comfortable advantage

Team Toyo’s Tanner Foust Leads Formula D Championship Points Entering
Who Won - In addition to Tanner Foust, Ken Gushi will return with his thundering V8-powered Toyo Tires/Ford Performance/Gushi Auto Ford Mustang, while Stephan Papadakis will once again demonstrate his versatile driving abilities with his AEM/Memphis Car Audio

Pantagraph - What do YOU know about working in an auto plant? Ever done 12 hours straight on the line? Know what that’s like? I guess not. You probably work in a cubicle, don’t you? Bet you work at your little computer punching keys all day long then

Letters, 10/21: Misled on school bond
Lincoln Journal Star - Honda selected Greensburg, Ind., as the site of our new auto plant primarily because of its close proximity to our existing network of U.S. parts suppliers, an available quality work force, and a solid transportation system, all key factors in Honda

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Vindicator - Comprehensive operates a warehouse on Victoria Road where it receives parts for the auto plant and arranges them in order for assembly. It handles 85 percent of the parts shipped to the Lordstown plant. Union officials could not be reached. Don

TOM WALSH: Union using all of its weapons
Detroit Free Press - You say you work in an Auto Plant, but you don’t sound like an Auto Worker. An Auto Worker would never use the term “Your Union”. The Union isn’t the UAW Bueracracy. Right now the Union is walking the beat with picket signs in their hands, standing

On the Ropes at Merrill Lynch
Washington Post - The grandson of slaves, the child of farmers and a former assembly-line worker at an auto plant, O’Neal forged an unlikely path to Harvard Business School and then to some of the nation’s largest companies before taking over as chief executive at

Couple has good view of Kia auto plant site
La Grange Daily News - Harlon and Eva Langford have a spectacular view of the Kia Motors construction site from their back yard on Warner Road. I ve been around construction all my life, and I ve never seen anything like it, Langford said, standing on a hillcrest

All the economic figures prove Mississippi moving forward fast
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - That means the Baldwyn plant technically will be Mississippi’s fourth auto plant including Nissan at Canton, Toyota at Blue Springs and the PACCAR plant - another facility under construction near Columbus that will build Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks

Ukraine >>
Kommersant - As they explained at the plant, the politics was all about getting international recognition for the Zaporozhets auto plant by assembling Mercedes, as well as the Opel Astra. In turn, this would enable them to find a buyer for the block of shares

To save GM jobs, replace Paul Ryan
Wisconsin State Journal - Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, the long-term viability of Wisconsin’s largest auto plant is threatened. Thus, workers have been forced to accept a four-year contract that trades economic gains for promises by the company to keep work in the United States.

Hyundai’s House of Pain
BusinessWeek - the US government imposes a “25 percent” import duty on pickup trucks. The Hyundai Motor Corp. is expected to start manufacturing “pickup trucks” at the Alabama facility before or right after its sister Kia complete building $1.2 billion auto plant

North Bay Business Journal - Sonoma County s green program initially targeted auto repair shops and then broadened to encompass printers and wineries. Currently, the county is developing a program that encompasses all types of businesses. There is a Bay Area Green Business

Oneida Dispatch - To select more than one item in a list, press CTRL key or Command key [Mac] while clicking on an item. Select a sub-category Beep Beep - All Auto Parts & Supplies Auto/Trucks Wanted Automotive automotive Repair Autos for Sale Boats Boats

Houston Chronicle - He finances auto-repair work. He is even trying to run an office cleaning service. And that is how Costa Sol Auto Repair became Costa Sol Group Inc. “I did $300,000 in gross revenues last year,” Soberanis said. “And that is just the auto repairs. I

Google Maps Offers Store Coupons
iMedia Connection - The local businesses include retailers such as dry cleaners, pizza delivery restaurants and auto repair shops. Google’s move marks a push to combine the online and offline shopping worlds while also creating a competitive challenge for newspaper

Finding New Sales Prospects
Portland Business Journal - For example, an alliance between a body shop and an auto repair shop lets each company recommend customers to the other and creates a more complete service offering. A word of caution: Before you enter into this type of alliance, make sure you can

Murder Suicide in Citronelle
WKRG - Tuesday, Sheriff’s deputies arrested Melanie Jones and charged her with murdering her husband. Investigators say she shot Bobby Jones in the chest Saturday night outside his auto repair shop on Odom Road. Investigators haven’t said what may have

Explosion sends auto repair shop employee to hospital
Mansfield News Journal - MANSFIELD — An employee of a Park Avenue West auto repair shop was injured Thursday when a metal tank exploded while he was welding. Mike Russo, owner of Midas Auto Service Experts, would not identify the man, but said fumes inside the tank

Slow traffic is a small price for safety
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - A trustworthy auto repair shop Dear Editor, Good news! There is an honest, fair, experienced, trustworthy auto repair facility in Glenwood Springs. In my 30 years of being “abused” in the world of “Women versus auto repair,” I finally found a place

Catalytic cataclysm
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - Thieves, according to local law enforcement and those in the auto repair industry, are stripping vehicles of their catalytic converters. “They are being targeted for their precious metals,” said Whittier police spokeswoman Officer Diana Salazar. The

Sri Lanka Sunday Times - the use of HFO without extensive treatment to remove harmful material that are present in HFO which severely reduce performance and life and that treatment is capital intensive and result in cost of treated HFO reaching that of expensive auto diesel

Lincoln Educational Services Announces Promotion of Scott Shaw as
MSN MoneyCentral - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 16,900 students at June

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation Schedules Third Quarter 2007
MSN MoneyCentral - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 16,900 students at June

iCrossing Helps Lincoln Educational Services Corporation Connect
Forbes - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 17,400 students at March 31

Today’s Letters: There’s a needfor skilled trades
St. Petersburg Times - High School was originally conceived as a local alternative to Withlacoochee Vo-Tech (in Citrus County) and Marchman Vo-Tech (in Pasco County), where students who wanted a more hands-on career in such fields as electrical, plumbing, auto/diesel

Sinopec Imports First Diesel Cargo in Five Months (Update1)
Bloomberg - China National Petroleum, the nation’s second-largest oil refiner, will import 90,000 tons of auto diesel in October, a company official said Sept. 27. China National Petroleum has bought diesel with 0.005 percent, or 50 parts-per-million

Lincoln Educational Services Announces Departure of Vice
MSN MoneyCentral - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 16,900 students at June

Who they are: Meet the candidates for Burlington City Council
Times-News - Nashville Auto & Diesel College; attended Piedmont Bible College; Duke Sodard School of Racing and Design. Social-charitable activities; Children s church teacher, vision committee member, usher People s Memorial Christian Church; staff member

MAILBAG - Littering, gas prices, stray animals
WISC News - The United States alone uses 60 million gallons of jet fuel per day.This does not include auto, diesel, heating oil or any other use of petroleum. Remember, just days after 9-11 all those jets and other aircraft were not allowed to fly. With no demand

Daily Oklahoman - The MG auto plant was to be north of Ardmore on tribal land owned by the Chickasaw Nation and next to the Ardmore Airpark. The project was expected to create up to 500 jobs, including several in Norman and Oklahoma City. Nuttle stopped short of

GOP Presidential debaters & The Wizard of OZ
OpEdNews.com - I was raised in Allen Park, Michigan, one of the pure white communities that are immediately adjacent Dearborn, the home of the Ford Motor Company and the company s sprawling Rouge plant, the largest auto plant in the world. Dearborn wasn t

Gettlefinger wielding a double-edged sword
Detroit Free Press - Well for starters, there are plenty of $13 an hour jobs out there with much better working conditions then are offered at an auto plant. They pay the wages because it reduces employee churn and training costs. A poorly trained “temporary” workforce

Shipments of toy from China halted
Akron Beacon Journal - South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. said it is shutting its auto plant in Montgomery, Ala., for 10 days in the fourth quarter amid sluggish demand. The plant, which makes the midsize Sonata sedan and the Santa Fe sport utility vehicle, was closed on

Magna closing in on auto plant site
National Post - Magna International Inc. confirmed it has held talks with several provinces on a site for its first North American vehicle manufacturing plant — raising the possibility Canada could soon have a full-fledged domestically owned automaker. “We’ve had

All the economic figures prove Mississippi moving forward fast
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - That means the Baldwyn plant technically will be Mississippi’s fourth auto plant including Nissan at Canton, Toyota at Blue Springs and the PACCAR plant - another facility under construction near Columbus that will build Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks

BOOK REVIEW: Capitalism Explained, Defended by Classical Economist in
HuntingtonNews.Net - Singer and MacDonald in their Sept. 21 Wall Street Journal piece on the U.K. for sale discuss some of the downsides of foreign ownership in the nation’s equivalent of our “Rust Belt,” such as Peugeot’s decision to close an English auto plant and

Nizhny Novgorod Region
Kommersant - The largest auto plant in Russia was founded here in 1937. But it was only in 1990, after the decline of Communist regime, that the fair was revived. The city is linked with the name of the great Russian scientist and fighter for democracy Andrei

Ottawa Citizen - In 2005, Toyota announced it would build the first new auto plant in Ontario in 20 years. Liberal officials emphasized the value of Ontario’s health and education systems in luring that investment. Toyota officials had been offered hundreds of

UAW local leaders support GM deal
Detroit Free Press - The day of the high school diploma, I walk into the auto plant, I am breathing, so I make great wages are over..a small quantity (the few UAW left) who have 20 plus years with them, will linger through future downsizings and more concessions, but

Alabama recruiters ready if Volkswagen considers U.S. plant
International Herald Tribune - Since German automaker Mercedes picked Vance in 1993 for an auto plant, Alabama has become what some industry watchers called the “Detroit of the South,” with Hyundai in Montgomery and Honda in Lincoln, plus Toyota and Navistar engine plants in

Smolensk Region
Kommersant - The region’s main industrial centers are Smolensk, Vyazma, Roslavl, Safonovo, Gagarin, and Yartsevo, where large companies such as an aircraft plant, the AO ZIL auto plant, the Izmeritel factory, AO Aisberg, the Kristall factory, the Dvigatel factory

Same state, but worlds apart
Chicago Tribune - live in a 4,000-square-foot brick house, their income has grown 40 percent and Janet can stay home to care for their two kids. Their improved lifestyle descended upon them like a pale white spaceship, which is exactly what Toyota’s massive auto plant

Racist Banter Behind Closed Doors
Inside Higher Ed - Also some white workers at a Japanese auto plant were making racist jokes about their employers and did not want it to go out of the room for the fear of loosing their jobs. What is surprising is the attitude of white women. Alexandra Robbins s

Special Report: 2007 UAW contract talks
Detroit News - Chrysler, meanwhile, inked a deal with China’s Chery Automobile Co. to build small cars in China for export to the United States. Preserving wage levels that will allow auto plant workers to maintain their middle-class lifestyle. The automakers likely

Reuters India - SEOUL (Reuters) - A visit to North Korea’s showcase auto plant on Thursday left the South’s president and the head of the world’s sixth-largest carmaker wondering if something was wrong with their driving or with cars made north of the border. Before

Tentative deal ends GM strike
Delaware Online - Arlod pointed to the Wal-Mart on Centerville Road, on the other side of the GM plant, and then he pointed to the auto plant’s parking lot.

Georgia >>
Kommersant - The Kutaisi Auto Plant (Kutaissky avtozavod), which previously produced Kolkhida trucks and KAVZ buses resembling steel coffins, once tried to assemble cheap Indian Mahindra jeeps, but they have apparently given up on that. At any rate, these jeeps

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Worldnews.com - Toyota planning new Japan auto plant International Herald Tribune : Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to build its first new auto assembly plant in Japan in nearly two decades, Japanese media reports said Friday. The Japanese automaker said in a statement it’s

Special Report: 2007 UAW contract talks
Detroit News - Chrysler, meanwhile, inked a deal with China’s Chery Automobile Co. to build small cars in China for export to the United States. Preserving wage levels that will allow auto plant workers to maintain their middle-class lifestyle. The automakers likely

Smolensk Region
Kommersant - The region’s main industrial centers are Smolensk, Vyazma, Roslavl, Safonovo, Gagarin, and Yartsevo, where large companies such as an aircraft plant, the AO ZIL auto plant, the Izmeritel factory, AO Aisberg, the Kristall factory, the Dvigatel factory

Racist Banter Behind Closed Doors
Inside Higher Ed - Also some white workers at a Japanese auto plant were making racist jokes about their employers and did not want it to go out of the room for the fear of loosing their jobs. What is surprising is the attitude of white women. Alexandra Robbins s

GM sales flat in September
Detroit Free Press - That, coupled with Canada’s strengthening currency, has Canadian business analysts fearful that Ontario’s auto plant towns like Windsor will look like ghost towns in the years ahead. For more than 30 years, Canada’s low dollar and nationalized health

Italian Tile Executive and His Family Make New Home in Lakeland
The Ledger - The town still has a Ferrari auto plant. Because clay mining in the area dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, Modena became a center for tilemaking, said Luca Setti, who’s been in that industry his entire working life. The couple said they

UAW local leaders support GM deal
Detroit Free Press - The day of the high school diploma, I walk into the auto plant, I am breathing, so I make great wages are over..a small quantity (the few UAW left) who have 20 plus years with them, will linger through future downsizings and more concessions, but