October 10, 2017 • Page 4 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Amid Crises, Two South Dakota Manufacturing Companies Answer The Call PIERRE, S.D. – Emergencies. It seems like lately our newsfeed has been inundated with reports of emergenDud had been sitting there looking at his computer for cies happening around the 20 minutes and he hadn’t gotten any more done on the globe. From natural and book. You know the one. Dud calls it “Murder in the Soggy environmental disasters to Bottoms,” and the rest of us call it “The Duchess and the civil disturbances, there are Truck Driver” because the two main characters are …. yeah, many parts of our world that you understand. are under extreme duress The rest of us have only been able to look on while our these days. pal Dudley has been going through this agony for the past But through it all and in several years. If we’re asked to explain the book to those not times of need and tragedy, in the literary loop around here, we generally hem and haw emergency response crews and say something like, “I think the duchess and the truck driver love each other, and there’s some murders in it, too.” answer the call, and it may surprise you that many of At least, that tends to be a summation of the main those emergency respondtheme, because we can’t see the book from Dud’s perspective. To Dud, this is the next “War and Peace” but he doesn’t ers have ties to South Dakota. want it to be that long. Also, to Dud, sitting there at his That’s right. Tucked away computer now for 26 minutes, he has no idea what his characters would do for 800 pages. He is still trying to figure out in two small eastern South how to keep them busy for 300, and that hasn’t come easily. Dakota communities are two You see, the truck driver (he’s a handsome guy, of manufacturing companies course) is on special assignment to the European country that produce fire engines, where the duchess (naturally drop-dead gorgeous) lives. pumpers, aerials, tankers Dud hasn’t figured out the special assignment yet, either, and more. but it beats having his hero haul groceries in the middle Rosenbauer South of the United States. And the duchess, well, turns out she Dakota is located in Lyons, had a love child by the truck driver when he was over there S.D. – population 60. The 20-some years ago on his last special assignment. And the company’s combined foottruck driver doesn’t know he has a European son, but the print of 177,500 square feet duchess knows. Well, of course the duchess knows. I mean, of state-of-the-art manufacshe was there as the dukelet’s mom all those years, right? turing space sprawls across So how do we reconnect them? Well, maybe his truck 21 acres of land in 10 differcould accidently crash into her castle? ent buildings. What makes Or she could open a truck wash down at the truck stop … no, that doesn’t seem duchess-like. But Dud’s been sitting this company particularly interesting is that it employs here looking at his computer for half an hour now. Know more than 300 people who what? There’s a football game coming on television. assemble a variety of fire apLater on, maybe ... paratuses, or fire trucks, for an estimated 700 vehicles per year. “It’s actually quite remarkable the number of finished products that leave Quality... USED Cars, our facility. Our trucks virtuTrucks, Campers, Boats & Consignments cover corner of 2005 Chrysler ally globe. every right here in the From PT Cruiser Convertible South Dakota, to Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Guatemala and Palestine, if there’s a red ‘R’ on the front of the truck, it’s one of ours,” said Scott Oyen, CEO of Rosenbauer South Dakota. “It’s very rewarding to know that our products help people every single day.” But what makes this particular corner of our world exceptionally unique is that down the road less than 25 miles away in Brandon, S.D., is one of Rosenbauer’s competitors. Spartan ERV, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, employs almost 200 full-time workers in Brandon. Just like in Lyons, Spartan’s manufacturing crews assemble emergency response vehicles such as pumpers, aerials, tankers and wildland trucks that are shipped across the globe. “Our products are present in the United States in almost all 50 states, Canada, China, Chile, Peru and Brazil,” said Daryl Adams, president and CEO of Spartan Motors, Inc. “In our Michigan campus, we also produce other emergency response vehicles, as well as nonemergency vehicles, too. Spartan is very integrated and we’ve seen tremendous growth, especially in the last several years.” Between Rosenbauer and Spartan, there’s no denying South Dakota’s impact on emergency assistance goes beyond the average call of duty. 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Something Adams says he knows all too well. “I think it simply boils down to a lack of involvement and understanding from a public perspective,” Adams said. “Manufacturing has almost completely moved away from the socalled ‘dark ages’ to where it is today. Now our employees are working on computers and robots and applying engineering principles on the manufacturing floor. We need to take a more proactive approach to getting our kids and educators in the doors of manufacturing companies, because at the end of the day, I really believe manufacturing is the lifeblood of our country’s economy. Without it, we’ll crumble.” Both Rosenbauer and Spartan are currently hiring for a variety of positions in the South Dakota campuses. Interested applicants can go to www.rosenbaueramerica. com and www.spartanerv. com to view available jobs. 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