Sterling Truck Corp. Closes After 11 Years

Former Sterling Truck plant in St. Thomas

Former Sterling Truck plant in St. Thomas


Sterling Truck Corp. officially ended its 11-year life span last month when the last Class 8 rolled off the St. Thomas, Ontario, assembly line, part of a final order for ABF Freight System Inc.

Parent firm Daimler AG declined requests last week from Transport Topics to discuss Sterling. But Dave Elliot, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, Local 1001, which represented workers at the plant, said the final new truck, of 257,300 produced, was completed on March 4.
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Former St. Thomas EDC manager has words for Daimler

Ian McCallum

Ian McCallum


Maurice Beaudry has a shoot-from-the-hip message for Daimler AG, the
parent company of the soon-to-close Sterling Truck Plant … you
screwed up and why should St. Thomas ratepayers suffer?
And Maurice knows of what he speaks, because in his former position
as manager of the Economic Development Corporation in the early
1990s, he played a leading role in convincing Freightliner to locate
in St. Thomas.
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When the going gets tough …

Just over a year ago, in an impassioned speech to council detailing his rationale for opposing the hiring of a chief administrative officer, Mayor Cliff Barwick stressed, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If I thought we had chaos and everything was falling down, I would be the first person to say as the mayor of St. Thomas, we needed someone to pull us together.”

Well mayor, the wagon is broke. This bus needs a driver.

Jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate, families risk to lose their homes and the ripple effect will impact every business and service provider in St. Thomas and beyond. Continue reading