Business View Magazine | January 2021

137 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 We’re a very integrated manufacturer, unlike many of our counterparts in the industry. We don’t just assemble RVs, we build it all. The millwork, all the cabinetry that you see in the unit, even the cabinet doors and drawers are finished inhouse. We have a true, full- service cabinet shop and our own lamination process, where we manufacture our sidewalls in our assembly plant and then build our superstructure – the floors, roofs, slide rooms – and then we assemble the vehicle, as well, in our assembly plant. You could say that each unit is hand made.” Historically, Vanleigh RV has relied on what might be seen as a teamwork approach, instead of relying on individual craftsmen. Tiffin declares that if one or two people set out to build a complete fifth-wheel, it would be close to impossible – they would need a massive amount of skill and technical expertise in so many areas. But when there are 200 people involved in the process it becomes much easier. He elaborates, “Typically what we find is, through better production processes and operational improvements, we can simplify the job elements and aspects of the job. So we can hire someone who may not have a lot of previous experience in this type of work and train them properly. And then, of course, the longer they do it the better they get. We do have a core group of employees who have been here from the very early days, I would say close to 30 percent of our workforce has been here most of the time that we’ve been in existence, and that’s a key. Those are the folks who have tremendous amounts of experience and help us develop other people that enter the Supplying products to the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industry since 1978. www.davecarter.com (352) 732-2992 BUILDING PRODUCTS ELECTRICAL PLUMBING VANLE IGH RV