For Jim Belleti:
Good to see all the "me too's" responding to the roll call for MO Heartland owners. Makes me wonder if there's an easy way to figure that out by each state? Also have wondered just how many Heartland coaches have been bought and are currently being "loved on" nationwide? Inquiring minds you know? Or just too much time on my hands?
Good questions. Let me start with the easy one.
Heartland has built, since it's inception, about 17,000 units. So that is our on-road number (approximately). Ten thousand of those units were from 2004 through 2007 with seven thousand plus for 2008 alone. We had much more capacity to build in 2008 than the numbers we hit, but the economy has hit the RV industry very severely. That said, Heartland has done better than many. We have right sized our business and we feel we have an effective product mix. While 2009 will be a rough year for our industry, we expect to still do pretty well.
As for the MO roll-call - yes, this has been interesting, promising and uplifting. Now - who will be the next Heartland Owners Club Chapter Leader?
In terms of being able to quantify "owners" by state/province, I am not given access to those ownership records at Corporate. In terms of being able to quantify "forum members" by state/province, this can only somewhat be done. Reason being is that in the past, city and state/province was "not" required. And even when provided, it not provided in a consistent format (i.e. Mo, MO, mo, Missouri, missouri and various mis-spellings). This holds true for all state/province data, user supplied thus far.
But, "I have a plan"
City and State/Province is now "required". And as time allows, our forum Technical Moderator, linuxkidd, will be adding a drop down menu selection for new users to select their State/Province. Then he will run a series of clean-up scripts to clean-up the existing state/province.
Jim