1.   THE management buy-out of the former Leyland Daf truck manufacturing plant in Lancashire was completed yesterday after last-minute negotiations throughout the night.

2.   MANAGEMENT at the Leyland DAF truck plant in Lancashire plan to buy out the truck assembly operations at the factory.

3.   Among Detroit automakers, April and May sales were toughest on Chrysler, in part because of a now-resolved strike at a Detroit truck engine plant.

4.   And once the new pickup comes out and GM brings its truck plants to full capacity, the company will really make headway, Grimaldi said.

5.   Another candidate for closing is a light truck assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario, where Chrysler used to build large Ram wagons.

6.   As of Friday, GM was operating three plants in Mexico and only one truck chassis plant in the U.S.

7.   At the Princeton truck plant, Toyota doubled the size of the factory before it built its first vehicle.

8.   A GM spokesman said additional truck plants could shut down tomorrow because of parts shortages caused by the Indianapolis strike.

9.   A walkout would force several GM car and truck assembly plants to shut down in a matter of days, company and union officials said.

10.   A separate strike by workers at a Pontiac, Mich., truck assembly plant shut down operations in April.