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Motor vehicles—passenger cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks and vans, heavy-duty trucks, buses, and other special-purpose motor vehicles ranging from limousines to garbage trucks—play a central role in our society. Most U.S. residents rely on them daily to travel to work or school, shop, or visit family and friends. Businesses depend on motor vehicles to transport people and goods. The United States is the world’s largest marketplace for motor vehicles because of the size and affluence of its population. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, almost 230 million motor vehicles—nearly 136 million automobiles, 95 million trucks, and 777,000 buses—were registered in the United States in 2003. The number of light trucks—including vans, pickup trucks, and SUVs—has shown especially steady growth since the mid- to late 1980s.

Motor vehicle manufacturers provide formal training opportunities to all workers, regardless of educational background. Manufacturers offer some classes themselves and may pay tuition for workers who enroll in colleges, trade schools, or technical institutes. Workers sometimes can get college credit for training received on the job. Subjects of company training courses range from communication skills to computer science. Formal educational opportunities at postsecondary institutions range from courses in English, basic mathematics, electronics, and computer programming languages to work-study programs leading to associate, bachelor’s, and graduate degrees in engineering and technician specialties, management, and other fields.

Industrial production managers oversee first-line supervisors and managers of production and operating workers. These supervisors oversee inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. They coordinate a variety of manufacturing processes and production activities, including scheduling, staffing, equipment, quality control, and inventory control.

Employment in the motor vehicle and parts manufacturing industry is expected to grow with demand for motor vehicles and parts, but jobs will be lost due to productivity increases. The growing intensity of international and domestic competition has increased cost pressures on manufacturers. In response, they have sought to improve productivity and quality with high-technology production techniques including computer-assisted design, production, and testing. Increasing productivity should meet much of the demand created by the increasing output of the motor vehicle and parts manufacturing industry, resulting in slow job growth. Moreover, the industry is increasingly turning to contract employees in an effort to reduce costs. Contract workers are less costly to hire and lay off than are permanent employees; contract jobs also serve as a screening tool for candidates for permanent jobs that are more complex and require more skills.

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