United States Senator Charles Grassley visited Scranton Manufacturing Wednesday as part of his 99-county tour.

The Republican toured the garbage truck manufacturer’s facility, including the new 56,000-square foot expansion which houses the company’s painting department and more production space for their newest product, the Roto-Pac.

New Way and Scranton Manufacturing is the largest privately-owned garbage truck manufacturer and the third largest such manufacturer in the country. They also have 300 employees and Vice-President of Operations Jim Ober said that March was a record-breaking month for the business. The mounting department produced 102 trucks and the welding department built 95. Grassley told Raccoon Valley Radio what impressed him the most about the small-town made, but global business that Scranton Manufacturing is.

“Listen, when you’re told that this company is one of the three largest on making garbage trucks like this, and then the thought that comes to my mind, ‘Here? In this town? And we don’t know about it?’ It tells me that we don’t brag enough about Iowa and you don’t brag enough about Scranton.”

After the tour, the Senator took questions from some of the employees on topics such as term limits for legislators, correcting a dysfunctional Congress, the Republican Presidential race, refugees coming into the country, Social Security and prescription drug legislation.

Grassley was also at Denison High School and at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll earlier in the day.