Another Shoe Dropping!
SILVERTON, OR — One of Silverton's largest employers, a manufactured-home factory owned by Champion Homes, is to close and cost the town nearly 160 jobs.
I would like to know how frequently Champion Homes production and delivery was completely stalled due to Multi-hour, Roadway Closing, Traffic Accident Investigations?
I'm afraid most Oregonians (the majority soon to become public employees) don't understand how Time is Critical to industry and that especially true for those producing manufactured homes.
Moving an over-sized load on our highways requires an immense amount of scheduling and coordination involving many people and unexpected delays have disastrous results in time and labor lost and that compounded by their needing to readjust the process to new time-frames.
Not only is Oregon renown for government over-regulations its also famous for suffering from having a constipated transportation system.
I wonder of Champion will offer their existing employees jobs at a new facility . . . say near Boise?
posted by Localfella at 8:33 AM
1 Comments:
I am posting anonymous here because currently being employed with Champion and wish to stay that way. I have a blog of my own and your site is linked from mine if you care to validate my claim. Your comments regarding government regulation being a factor is more true than you may realized. On stark example is one of our more successful projects was providing new affordable housing for the enlisted at Fort Lewis Washington. Google modular housing at Fort Lewis for more information. The construction type we produced for Washington State (Modular IRC Code) is impossible to produce for installation in Oregon because of Oregon statutes requiring union journeyman to be used in much of the construction. As far as delivering oversize loads, we also have demand for wider than 14' units but the prohibitions on delivery, permit fees, and weight restrictions further make this housing type a challenge to deliver. Requirements laden on the public for new housing impact fees, septic design reviews, permit processes, growth limited zoning laws all play a negative impact on affordable housing.
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