Evansville Courier & Press
EVANSVILLE -- A supplier to the Toyota plant in Princeton, Ind., has told the state it may lay off up to a third of its workers in Princeton.
Transfreight LLC, which both trucks supplies and schedules shipments to the Toyota factory, sent the Indiana Department of Workforce Development a notice of the possible layoffs last week. Transfreight said it may eliminate as many as 60 positions starting around Aug. 7.
"Although Transfreight anticipates recalling some of the affected workers, these layoffs may be permanent," the company said in its notice to the state.
In June, the company had said it may lay some employees off in response to Toyota's decision to slow production at its Princeton factory. Transfreight later said it had found a way to avoid cutting those employees.
But that was before Toyota subsequently announced that it would cease making the Tundra in Princeton and move that line to its plant in San Antonio. Toyota also said it would suspend the manufacture of the Tundra and Sequoia in Princeton between August and early November.
The Japanese automobile maker has said those changes won't cause it to lay off any of its 4,500 Princeton employees. It plans to convert the factory so it can begin making the Highlander SUV there in the fall of 2009.