Mack Trucks invested $13 million to start production on a new line of medium-duty trucks in Roanoke County last year, hiring 250 workers. Photo courtesy Mack Trucks Inc.
Once a big economic development is announced, it can be years before it comes to fruition. But that wasn’t the case with Mack Trucks Inc., one of North America’s largest producers of heavy-duty trucks, which took only nine months from announcement to starting full production of medium-duty trucks in the Roanoke Valley.
In January 2020, the North Carolina-based truck-maker owned by Volvo Group announced it would invest $13 million and hire 250 people to produce the new line of medium-duty trucks in Roanoke County.
Full production at its Roanoke Valley Operations started last September, a couple months later than anticipated but way ahead of most economic development projects.
