“This week marks the 121st anniversary of Mack Trucks, and we are very pleased to celebrate this milestone with the president. “We are honored that President Biden chose to visit Mack Trucks today,” said Martin Weissburg, president of Mack Trucks. LVO currently employs more than 2,500 people and plans to hire up to 400 more this year, the company stated. The plant upgrades were completed in 2020. Mack recently completed an $84 million investment in plant improvements at LVO, which included the insourcing of chassis assembly, the addition of new equipment, and a 300,000 square-foot expansion of the facility. “So, it goes to show you, if you want to get things moving, bring a guy from Scranton to get it going. “John Mack started this iconic American company in 1890, but things really didn’t get off the ground until four years later when he brought his brother William down from Scranton,” said Biden, who was born in Scranton. But before going into the nitty-gritty of his administration’s Buy American agenda, Biden kicked things off with a bit of a Mack Trucks history lesson. All Mack heavy-duty models for North America and export are assembled at the LVO facility.īiden visited the 121-year-old plant and remarked on the importance of American manufacturing and buying products made in America. “I’m not going to say anything, I just came to drive a truck,” President Joe Biden quipped as he walked onto the podium at Mack Trucks’ Lehigh Valley Assembly Operations (LVO) facility in Pennsylvania on July 28.