Besides the 750 workers that Daimler Trucks will hire for expansion, nearly 4000 work places will be created at auto-parts plants located in Derramadero, South of Saltillo Coahuila, to develop supply chain, explained Arnoldo Saucedo Davila, Director of Government Relations of Allianza Global Development, a company that operates two industrial parks in the area
, fostering eight major suppliers to Daimler Trucks. He added that: “relevant data show that there are already 15 thousand jobs in Derramadero, but those are only direct openings at OEM factories and major suppliers, there is also an important number of indirect jobs in areas such as surveillance, courier and parcel services, catering, maintenance, employee transportation auxiliaries, etc. to account for as well, which might generate 30% more jobs.
Source: Zocalo Saltillo