Friday, July 26, 2024
We safely arrived back in Middlebury after the wonderful experience at the Blueberry Patch. There was visiting, hiking the trails, etc. On Thursday, 7/25, we were pleased to take a tour of the Brinkley RV factory. We love factory tours. We will do a factory tour of just about anything. For the non-RVers, Brinkley is one of the newest RV manufacturers and has built four huge factory buildings in Goshen, IN. and are building what most consider a higher quality RV, using some of the newest manufacturing processes. Brian was our tour guide and he answered all our questions, allowed us inside some of the RVs and walked us through the construction process from beginning to the RV going out the factory door. One of the first impressive things we noticed was that all their factory buildings are air conditioned. Everything was clean and comfortable. Brinkley feels that their employees can do better work and produce a better product when working in a temperature-controlled environment. Some of the other RV factories actually have to shut down production when the temperature is too high for the employees to safely work. I suspect Brinkley has some happy employees. Brinkley doesn’t do tours during the workday due to safety concerns but since they were not working during our visit, it allowed us to walk around and look at things as we wanted. Many of the Brinkley work force are Amish, so the workday begins at 6:00 am so that employees can get home to their farms, livestock, gardens, etc. early afternoon. It was a great tour. We thank Brinkley for allowing us to tour and take pictures. Now where can we visit next?
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