Pennsylvania truck company blames tariffs as it announces huge layoffs

[jmowreader]

9. Blaming this on freight doesn't make sense to me

Mack doesn’t make that kind of a truck. If you’re buying a Mack you’re going to use it to pull heavy equipment like a bulldozer, or you’re making a dump truck or cement mixer out of it. Mack makes trucks with REALLY strong frames. That’s why Volvo bought them - they sell Volvos to the on-highway industry and Macks to the heavy-haul industry.

If the guy had said that thanks to Donald Fucking Trump’s trade war their export business had croaked and the US construction companies who buy his trucks were sitting on their cash, I would believe that. But he most likely didn’t want to piss Trump off, which is understandable.