Editing IC Bus (section)

==Assembly==
All IC Corporation/IC Bus vehicles are produced in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, facility opened by AmTran in 1999.  Prior to 2008, Type D models were produced in the Ward/AmTran facility in Conway, Arkansas.

IC Corporation announced potential layoffs of up to 500 workers at the Conway plant (which employed approximately 1,000) in June 2007. Demand for school buses were affected by a price hike in the 2007 model year due to more stringent emissions regulations. School districts increased their purchases of the 2006 model year buses, which were $5,000 to $7,000 less than the 2007 model year buses, and the Conway plant was producing approximately 30 buses per day, down from 50 buses per day during the peak demand.<ref name=LCD-070721>{{cite news |url=http://thecabin.net/stories/072107/loc_0721070007.shtml |title=Layoffs still a possibility for IC Corp. |author=Lamb, Joe |date=21 July 2007 |newspaper=Log Cabin Democrat |access-date=3 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104014231/http://thecabin.net/stories/072107/loc_0721070007.shtml |archive-date=2018-01-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although the company later announced no layoffs would occur in 2007,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecabin.net/stories/092107/loc_0921070004.shtml |title=Layoffs not expected at IC Corp |author=Dickerson, Rachel Parker |date=21 September 2007 |newspaper=Log Cabin Democrat |access-date=3 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104014021/http://thecabin.net/stories/092107/loc_0921070004.shtml |archive-date=2018-01-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the layoffs materialized on January 11, 2008, when IC Corporation announced a layoff of about 300 employees at the Conway, Arkansas Bus Plant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/jan/11/conway-school-bus-maker-lay-300/ |title=Conway school-bus maker to lay off 300 |website=Arkansasonline.com |date=2008-01-11 |access-date=2016-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422000639/http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/jan/11/conway-school-bus-maker-lay-300/ |archive-date=22 April 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> This was just under the maximum proportion of employees that could be laid off in Conway without the company violating the [[WARN Act]], which requires employers to give 60 days notice of a mass layoff or plant closing.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecabin.net/stories/011208/loc_0112080001.shtml |title=IC Corporation's parent company announces layoffs |author=Dickerson, Rachel Parker |date=12 January 2008 |newspaper=Log Cabin Democrat |access-date=3 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104014226/http://thecabin.net/stories/011208/loc_0112080001.shtml |archive-date=2018-01-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition to the layoffs, the company also announced a 50 percent reduction in bus production at the Conway plant. IC Corp. officials cited a lack of new orders as the reason for the layoffs.<ref name=LCD-070721 /> However, the company had recently announced increased production at the plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This stoked fears in Conway that the company was planning to shut down the plant in the near future and move all production to the newer, and non-union, Tulsa plant.

170 more workers were laid off at the Conway plant in March 2009. At the time, production had slowed to 16 buses per day, and following the layoffs, "cancellation of a huge order" resulted in production dropping to 8 buses per day.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecabin.net/stories/032609/loc_0326090006.shtml |title=IC Corp layoffs total 170 |author=Dickerson, Rachel Parker |date=26 March 2009 |newspaper=Log Cabin Democrats |access-date=3 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104014126/http://thecabin.net/stories/032609/loc_0326090006.shtml |archive-date=2018-01-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On November 5, 2009, IC Bus announced that its Conway plant would no longer assemble buses after January 18, 2010, projecting elimination of 477 jobs. The Conway facilities would serve as fabrication shops and manufacture parts, but would no longer produce complete buses. The company cited low demand by school districts and contractors during the recessionary economic climate in the United States.<ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ar-busplant-jobs,0,2026024.story]{{dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> "We have to consolidate our bus-assembly operations into one facility," Navistar spokesman Roy Wiley said. "Unfortunately for Conway, Tulsa is a much newer facility."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/nov/05/plant-stop-bus-making-477-jobs-affected/ |title=Plant to stop bus making; up to 477 jobs affected |date=5 November 2009 |agency=The Associated Press |access-date=3 January 2018 |newspaper=Arkansas Online}}</ref> Navistar sold off the Conway property in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecabin.net/business/2014-05-19/i-c-bus-property-sells-18m |title=IC Bus property sells for $1.8M |author=Corbet, Michelle |date=19 May 2014 |newspaper=Log Cabin Democrats |access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref>

On June 5, 2012, the Tulsa, Oklahoma IC Bus assembly plant produced its 100,000th vehicle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ir.navistar.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=680200 |title=Navistar Celebrates 100,000th Bus Milestone (NYSE:NAV) |website=Ir.navistar.com |date=2012-06-05 |access-date=2016-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310130734/http://ir.navistar.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=680200 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Workers at the Tulsa plant joined the [[United Auto Workers]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/manufacturing/ic-bus-workers-to-unionize-with-united-auto-workers/article_a6f87885-b34d-582f-a59b-2ebf58016ced.html |title=IC Bus workers to unionize with United Auto Workers |author=Arnold, Kyle |date=19 February 2013 |newspaper=Tulsa World |access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref> The Conway property was acquired by DBG Canada Ltd., a manufacturer of parts for the heavy truck industry, in 2017, and DBG announced it would make Conway its United States headquarters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://katv.com/news/local/dbg-acquires-former-conway-operation-for-us-headquarters |title=DBG acquires former Conway operation for U.S. headquarters |author=Wilson, Kristen |date=2 August 2017 |publisher=KATV Little Rock |access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref>