71.   The company has eight truck plants in Germany.

72.   The DaimlerChrysler subsidiary also has laid off workers at its truck plants in North Carolina and in St. Thomas, Ontario.

73.   The latest plants affected were in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the Chevrolet Corvette is made, and a truck chassis plant in Detroit.

74.   The last contentious issue concerned mandatory overtime at an Oshawa, Ontario, truck plant.

75.   The pickup beds will be shipped to a truck assembly plant in Fremont, California, that Toyota operates in a joint venture with General Motors.

76.   The shutdown of the Oshawa truck plant is due to a shortage of parts caused by two GM strikes in Michigan.

77.   The strike against GM closes the truck plant, but the short-term effects will not be as severe.

78.   This week, the Newark, Del., plant and the St. Louis North truck plant in Fenton, Mo., will be idled.

79.   Two workers were killed and nine others were severely burned by molten metal that spilled from a furnace at a Russian truck plant, officials reported Wednesday.

80.   Union members returned to work Friday at a truck plant after overwhelmingly ratifying a contract with General Motors Corp. and ending a six-day strike.