Hitting the brakes: as automobile sales and production fall, parts makers shut down factories and shed workers across the state. Even truck assembly plants are feeling the slowdown.

• Position: Statewide

* Eaton trimmed 47 of 198 jobs at its factory making hydraulic hoses in Forest City.

* German axle maker Getrag laid off 141 of 500 workers in Maiden.

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* NGK Ceramics USA, which makes parts for catalytic converters, let go 85 of its 476 employees in Mooresville.

The number of people making auto parts fell 15% statewide between 1999 and 2008. Only one region showed an increase.

* Automotive Motors of Thomasville closed, putting 104 out of work.

* Auto Truck Transport plans to do away with 150 of 275 jobs in Cleveland because of Daimler production cuts.

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* Goodyear Tire & Rubber cut overtime for about 3,000 employees in Fayetteville.

* Daimler Trucks North America is eliminating more than 2,600 of its 3,880 jobs at factories in Cleveland...