Toyota won’t begin mass-producing its redesigned 2014 Tundra full-size pickup until next month and already it’s mulling ways to increase production of the truck at the San Antonio factory that’ll build it.
Under consideration: Shifting some production of the compact Tacoma pickup, built at San Antonio, back to the Baja, Mexico, Tacoma factory, says Mike Sweers, chief engineer for the Tundra.
Other possibilities: overtime shifts, and speeding up the Texas assembly line. That’s always a touchy issue in manufacturing plants. Sweers thinks it could be done by asking line workers to ferret out wasted moments and inefficient processes.
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