Forest City to Cedar Falls to Iowa City
The trip so far, 24 days on the road. June 9 2023 Friday. We had a busy day today; we got up early and took the 9 am tour at the Winnebago Motorhome factory here in Forest City Iowa. It is a huge complex with many large buildings and 4000 employees. Winnebago still builds their product the old fashion way, they do almost all of it in-house by their employees. There is very little done by subcontractors. During the tour I didn’t flaunt my experience in vehicle manufacturing even though I could see a lot of room for improvement in their build process. This is for my adopted southern family; that would be like a New Jersey transplant in the south saying, “up north we did it better!” Then again, I was but a minor cog in the system during my 38 years in the auto assembly business so what do I know. Anyhow, they’ve been doing it this way for a long time and seem to be happy producing 8 motorhomes a day. We made as many a 1280 cars per day in our auto assembly plant back in the day. In th