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DaimlerChrysler Reports Plant Schedule for Week of March 27, 2000

24 March 2000

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Reports U.S. and Canadian Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of March 27, 2000

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 23 DaimlerChrysler Corporation
reports all nine U.S. assembly plants and all three Canadian assembly plants
will operate the week of March 27, 2000.
    Belvidere (IL) will operate two eight-and-a-half-hour shifts weekdays and
two eight-hour shifts Saturday, March 25.  Conner Ave. (MI), will operate one
eight-hour shift weekdays.  Sterling Heights (MI) and St. Louis-North (Fenton,
MO) will operate two nine-hour shifts weekdays.  Dodge City Complex-Warren
Truck (MI) and St. Louis-South (Fenton, MO) will operate two nine-hour shifts
weekdays and two eight-hour shifts Saturday, March 25.  Jefferson-North
(Detroit, MI) will operate three seven-and-a-half hour shifts weekdays and
three seven-and-a-half-hour shifts Saturday, March 25.  Newark (DE), will
operate two nine-and-a-half-hour shifts weekdays and two nine-hour shifts
Saturday, March 25.  Toledo (OH) will operate two eight-hour shifts weekdays
and two eight-hour shifts Saturday, March 25.
    In Ontario, Canada, Bramalea will operate three seven-and-a-half hour
shifts weekdays and three seven-and-a-half-hour shifts Saturday March 25.
Pillette will operate two eight-hour shifts weekdays.  Windsor will operate
three seven-and-a-half hour shifts weekdays.