Working at Paccar Engine Plant for 2 Weeks

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The company I work for won the industrial cleaning contract at the PACCAR Engine Plant so I'm here for a couple of weeks helping them get started. They make diesel engines for Peterbuilt and Kenworth. Cool stuff.

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Engine block anyone?
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Where’s the engine plant? The Seattle area is home to Paccar, the final assembly and tech center.
 
Commando66 said:
Where’s the engine plant? The Seattle area is home to Paccar, the final assembly and tech center.
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It's outside Columbus Mississippi.

mbaird said:
Paccar is Peterbuilt and Kenworth .
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I drew the short straw and got 3rd shift...I can't think straight, lol.

Unconventional said:
Engine block anyone?
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I don't think they make torsion bars big enough to put one of those in my Swinger :lol:
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Got that right, see the torque numbers of that thing!!!
 
I had a chance to go work in their facility in Seattle years ago doing exterior body design, I didn't jump of the opportunity because they weren't able to give me a timeframe, specifically an end date. For all I know I could still be stuck out there had I took it!
 
72Duster440 said:
I had a chance to go work in their facility in Seattle years ago doing exterior body design, I didn't jump of the opportunity because they weren't able to give me a timeframe, specifically an end date. For all I know I could still be stuck out there had I took it!
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Sounds like you made the right choice! I'm not in a glamorous job, but I love the freedom I have. I work from my home, but I'm generally only there one day a week. The other four days I'm visiting one of 10 locations to make sure the manager is doing their job. And sometimes I get to see a different plant like Paccar.

mopowers said:
Kenmore?
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Yeah, I'll go back and edit. I'm working 3rd shift this week and it's kicking my ***!! Haven't done it in years.
 
66fyssh said:
The company I work for won the industrial cleaning contract at the PACCAR Engine Plant so I'm here for a couple of weeks helping them get started. They make diesel engines for Peterbuilt and Kenworth. Cool stuff.

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Engine block anyone?
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I did a whole bunch of welding in their plant in Seattle area. May have been one of the coolest plants I ever worked in. We were traveling millwrights. I want to say they produced 33 trucks in a 24 hr day. This was in maybe early nineties? It was just a super cool plant.
 
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