While Ford does produce the best-selling trucks, it didn’t escape from the automaker’s recent problems – suffering a slump in sales of more than 12 percent this year.

As a result of the weakening truck sales Ford will idle its plant in Norfolk, Va., for nine weeks starting on Sept. 11. The plant produced F-150 pickup trucks and would experience down weeks before 2007, but no details were given. Two other F-150 plants in Claycomo, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich., will also stop building trucks for three weeks in September and October.

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