I have known Steve and Davin for 4 years and I'm glad to see their success with Vorsheer. Anyone who claims they have some relationship to Moby1 needs to read the next paragraph. I was down at the shop last week to take a tour and talk about the new trailers. I have a masters degree in Operations Management and have been in manufacturing for 30 years and Steve is building a first class manufacturing operation. He is using the best manufacturing principles to produce quality trailers that are delivered as promised, on time and with quality components and workmanship. I was impressed to see that they have addressed all of the Moby1 design flaws and have made numerous other improvements. Welds, assembly, finishes all look professional and can pass any standard. There is an inventory system for parts and they have a replenishment program so that parts are on hand as trailers progress through the shop. It is obvious that money is being invested in operations and inventory and not being spent on Disneyland trips (if you knew Ashley you know what I mean). Designs are being improved as feedback is received from customers and the customers actually give feedback and aren't having to threaten lawsuits every week like they were with Moby1. Steve and everyone else at Vorsheer are doing things right and they are ethical, something entirely missing at Moby1.
I worked for Moby1 for several years and I have been following all of the Moby1 threads with interest, knowing that sooner or later the truth about Ashley and his lack of personal and business ethics would be made public. Steve and Davin were hired about 6 months after I started. I was hired when Ashley had 2 trailers on the road and about 8 trailers that had been sitting in the build queue, for months to more than a year. The day I started there wasn't a single trailer that was under construction and no employees. Ashley handed me a single page AutoCAD drawing, told me not to mess anything up and then disappeared. That is how everything at Moby1 worked. I had been there a week when it became obvious that Ashley was in way over his head. If we needed parts and material we had to wait on Ashley, who frequently told us there was no money to buy parts despite bragging about how many deposits he was taking. If we wanted to make a design change to fix problems, Ashley refused. The leaks were always an issue but Ashley blamed us for installing the weather stripping wrong while simultaneously refusing to implement the simple design changes we had worked out that would have fixed the issue. Steve and I fought Ashley constantly to make improvements of any type. Even simple things like inventory replenishment and build scheduling turned into agonizing frustrations. The entire time I worked for Ashley we didn't deliver a singe trailer as promised because we never had the materials when we needed them. I left after Ashley had missed payroll repeatedly while at the same time showing up in new vehicles and buying a luxury home. Animosity between Ashley and his employees was pervasive. Moby1 was never about building trailers, it was a personal piggy bank for Ashley and his family.
Vorsheer is not Moby1. We all worked for them but that is as far as it went. Vorsheer is building superior trailers, are ethical in their business practices and they know how to operate a manufacturing business. If you are thinking about having them build your trailer, you will receive what you are promised.
