By Stephanie Crosby
Georgetown, KY – The Georgetown, Kentucky, Toyota manufacturing plant will halt production for one day later this month, and could add a couple more shut down days in March. About 25-hundred people work on a line in Georgetown that produces Camrys and Avalons, two models involved in the company's recall of eight-point-five million vehicles. Plant spokesperson Rick Hesterberg says the February 26th shut-down was ordered because of lagging sales at dealerships.
"As a manufacturing plant, obviously we take our orders from our dealers, so the feedback and input that we get from our dealers, Toyota Motor Sales, reflects what kind of production numbers we call for on a daily and weekly basis."
Hesterberg says the company hasn't scheduled them yet, but the plant is considering two more production shut-down days in March. He says workers on those days will still report for duty, but won't produce cars. The same production line in Georgetown was shut down earlier this month because of a sales suspension.