FordTrucklover

Spent my recent DTP dwn wk in Virginia Beach area (weather was atrocious btw!) and just wanted to report that the amount of new yodas,hondas,kias,hyundais etc on rd was discouraging to say the least! Lots of Amer trucks (some tundras and titans too) overall... but TONS of all kinds of very new and shiney japanese,korean AND german vehicles. Not good. DC was awash in foreign cars as well. God help us!

He was actually snickerin bout more than auto bailouts and it even promted the interviewer to ask if he was punch drunk or somethin!

Have ya been to alabama? Is a very weird place... w/huge seperation of wealthy and poor.......

Exactly. Forget Shelby and that worthless state of alabama! They have forgotten bout us, we dont need them anyhow. They have enough to do bout havin 60% trailer parks and crazy ppl shootin places up i think. God bless those unfortunate victims but Shelby is an evil scoundral!

I second that, would love to rent a cabin up north @ bargain rate b4 winter is over..... Bk to DTP monday! We got trucks to build!

Besides, the barage of new imports aplently on my recent travels along east coast for holidays.... ive seen a quite a few new F-150s and many more new super dutys for some reason!? Had a nice holiday in VA Bch but glad to be bk in the upper midwest....can we get rid of this crazy wind though?? LoL

while i certainly DONT condone violence or defamation of ones property in ANY WAY..i do think its kinda nuts ppl in midwest would buy as many foreign cars as they seem to?... i come from VA as many of u know and proud to work 4 Ford and be a permanent MI resident.... i see lotsa foreign cars on east coast BUT they have no plants there anymore.... TONS of plants in midwest...how the F**K can somebody buy a toyhonda rice burner there?...and especially now while this crisis is unfolding w/in Big 3/US economy?? :reading:

Dont let some fools on here rattle ya...i agree on the F**K toyota,F**K southern republicans and those certain southern states involved as well!..lets kill em w/awesome quality and unity brothers!

Thnkyou for the info. I too hope it goes well in interview! Maybe some of us UAW ppl can call and commend Mr. Ford for the good job he did in hiring Mr. Mulally.. minus the huge compensation pak..lol. Such was the price i guess for luring a pro from a successful co to a problematic co (bk then i mean) etc.

Great idea! This is complete anit americanism from the southern senators standpt... they even have big 3 auotmaker plants in there states! This is soooo bad. Complete boycott by every UAW member at minimum. Im from VA and i will NEVER enter these states again im so disgusted..............write letters brother nd sisters!

Alabama?? Tell senator Shelby dwn there to get F**KED! Better stay near the city areas cause the rest is trailor park after trailor park...better learn southern slang cause the uneducated (70% of state) cant speak proper english....anyways, good luck and dont tell them ur pro-UAW cause they will not call ya bk, i promise ya that.

If/when this happens sometime next yr, it is plausible, as we are in different position than GM/Chrysler, i am gone this time..............................im done, after 15yrs w/ company and 2 plants, this VA boy will take it.

If ur a midwesterner u may be surprised at this fairly new phenomena but any of us from east coast plants knows its more UNCOMMON to see households w/all amer vehicles than the other way around...i must say though, @ least w/ pickup trucks its usually always a Ford or chevy or dodge but w/ cars...................hardly amer generally! Ive enjoyed seein mostly amer cars in driveways since movin to MI 2yrs ago....but some of my neighbors to prefer jap cars in neighborhood. I live in Farmington Hills btw.

90% of us on here (current Ford employees) would NOT hump our butts on line for $14. per/hr but new hires (i.e. former walmarters,students, young ppl, the disenfranchised etc) certainly would!..for a lil while anyway, till they found out how hard the work is! Pay would probably go dwn to more less than !18-22 per/hr for assembly type work @ full pay. I too would go for my masters but this is the exception not the rule here. NO PAY CUTS for BIG 3 Gettlefinger!!!!

THIS IS AWESOME NEWS~! PROMOTE,PROMOTE,PROMOTE!

Ur so right, nobody marches or mass pickets anymore like the 60's for example, they figure we are just bunch of drones that go along w/whatever or simply dont care i figure...so sad!

Thats a scarey scenario Country, and could very well come to pass..i certainly hope internatl inst stupid enuff to completely do away w/JSP or the companies will certainly exploit this....and our NAP asses will be on our way bk to VA/NC (lol) I bought a home here i really like and aint about to lose shit on it...im all the invested in MI for long term..........................

Yes, i believe they do want us to make walmart wages, not just the automakers but the current administration and other naysayers etc I guess they dont understand that constant turnover and low wages would equal low quality IMO. I understand the seriousness of our current situatuion fully and we are all vested in the future success but CEO's dont need 40mil per/yr w/bonuses..do they?? It was a setup from the start when our guys went b4 committee..it was to get public outcry against us i believe and just make fun of us in general cause we voted in a democrat..these fuckers need to do there jobs and stop playin games or we all need to march on Wash DC and get em ALL out.

Those hippocrit senators/congressman kissing the asses of their FOREIGN corporate consituents...what is this country coming to?..i understand that alot of these southern states have pathetic average wage standard cause ive lived there but givin 100mil plus in tax subsidies to attract hyundai, nissan or toyota should be agaist the law! I wont even travel EVER to some of the places where these senators came out in droves to put us dwn!.. support ourselves and our local midwest made products.

Forget the republicans, Bush family, southern right to work states and there worthless corporate welfare approving asses and hipocrit lifestyles! Dwn w/transplant automakers! GO BIG 3 and UAW! Another 100yrs!

Yea, heard bout Mazda engineered b-compact (hope Ford doesnt difest itself of them), Fusion hybrid is overdue and F-150 hybrid is needed and so on.......

If this is Bob A. from NAP and former union rep... heard u carried ur arse bk to VA from Dearborn...couldnt hang w/ goin bk to line work or was it ur ex wife? :reading:

IF UR NOT AN EMPLOYEE why oh why do you feel free to add ur opinions/remarks most of which is hearsay as you casually admitted to AN EMPLOYEE FORUM??..... IF you live in midwest you had better hope US auto industry thrives or will drag all dwn economically especially in those areas as we've started to already see...