Nummi Closure: Robots heading back to Georgia

Pension watchdog says Nummi plan underfunded

The federal agency that protects pensions says New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. is liable for $292 million in benefit payments but has just $161 million in assets, and it wants Toyota Corp. to help make up the difference.

Nummi was founded in 1984 as a partnership between Toyota Corp. and General Motors, but last summer GM quit the partnership and turned its interest in the Fremont plant over to Motors Liquidation Co., the bankrupt remnant of the old GM.

*I was talking to a customer in Kentucky the other day, and he said they were already loading up the robots from the Toyota plant and shipping them back to Georgia.

Jack Cooper Transport and Reality TV

Jack Cooper Transport explores reality TV possibilities - KansasCity.com
Jack Cooper Transport Co. teetered on the edge of bankruptcy last year and continues to fight for a turnaround of its fortunes.

Is that a story made for reality TV?

Mike Riggs hopes so. Riggs, chairman and majority owner of Cooper Transport, said the company has become a client of a Beverly Hills talent agency that will shop the idea of a reality TV show revolving around the car-haul company.

“I had never heard of such a thing, but there apparently is a niche of reality TV shows dealing with the workplace,” Riggs said.

Car hauling equipment in the UK

Came across an interesting website of a UK car hauling trailer manufacturer. Check out the car tie-downs they use over there. Looks a lot like the rollback straps we use over here in the US.