The State - News from Oct. 2, 1986
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The 400 employees thrown out of work by the closing of the Peterbilt truck plant in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Newark were angry and bitter, complaining that in place of severence pay they were given souvenir key chains made in Hong Kong. PACCAR, Peterbilt’s Seattle-based parent company, has blamed foreign competition and federal trucking deregulation for closure of the plant, which had been operating for 26 years.
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