International Truck and Engine Corp. plans to cut more than 500 jobs at its Springfield, Ohio, plants in March.

Four hundred hourly union workers will be laid off, as well as 55 salaried and 60 non-union workers. This prints the number of layoffs at the Springfield operation to more than 2,100 since November 2000, according to the Associated Press.
International currently employs 3,150 in Springfield. Even before the economic downturn that has truck sales in the pits, the company had predicted that it would cut its workforce to 2,800 by the end of 2003, thanks to more automated production at the cab stamping and assembly plants. But with a slow market for trucks, production has been lowered from 280 trucks per day last year to 155.