Last summer, as sales of the big trucks plummeted when gas jumped to $4 per gallon, Toyota made the decision to completely shut down the two factories building the Tundra and Sequioa for three months. What they didn't do was follow those actions with traditional layoffs. Temporary workers were released, but permanent workers still reported to the plant every day for training. When there was nothing to train them on, some were sent out to work cleaning local parks. Even after production restarted at the San Antonio plant, the line speed was cut in half. All the while, these autoworkers were not building trucks but they were collecting pay checks. Sound familiar?