Toyota employee writes powerful book

For years, many potential car buyers have thought of Toyota as a foreign company. And that reason alone has discouraged them from buying from the vehicle manufacturer.

For Tim Turner, an employee of Toyota's assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, he had heard the same response from friends, family, and anyone else who would listen for years. "Toyota is a foreign company." In addition, in recent years, he saw the news reports not speaking highly of his employer. Turner wondered what he could do to change the impression of Americans.

Eventually, he decided to take action in a less-than-conventional way. He wrote a book.

Turner's book, One Team on All Levels: The Story of the Toyota Team Members is available at Amazon.com and is not so much a first-person account from Turner, but rather a compilation of stories from some of the several thousand workers at the Kentucky plant, Toyota's largest in North America.

Some of the stories bring tears, while others make you laugh.

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