Detroit Diesel Confirms up to 700 layoffs due to U.S. EPA October low-emissions diesel deadline

Diesel Fuel News, August 19, 2002

Trucking companies simply aren't ordering enough cleaner diesel engines that DDC and five other truck engine makers must produce starting in October. So DDC is scaling-back production and layingoff workers, spokesman Tom Freiwald told us last week. Such a scale-back is little surprise, given recent truck-maker statements about expected sales in coming months (see above).