Auto plant back into full production

PRINCETON, Ind. (WTHI) - A southern Indiana auto plant goes back into full production. The Toyota plant in Gibson County is running on all cylinders again.

The company has spent the past year changing its west plant from producing the Tundra pick-up truck to the Highlander SUV.

The company spent $500 million to make the model change and the employees invested a lot of work to carry it out.

"We've had a lot of changes go on. It's been a trying time for everybody I think," Toyota team member Mark Niekirk said.

"It took a lot of planning, a lot of preparation, but as you can see today we managed to pull it off," Senior Vice President Toyota Wil James said.

The company pulled off a first of a kind change in the operation of the new line.

Workers there can produce both the Highlander and the Sequoia SUVs at the same time.