New eBike Partnership Offers Discounts for Campgrounds

DENVER, CO — eBikes are quickly gaining popularity with campers and RVers of all ages, and campground owners nationwide are finding they can increase ancillary revenue by offering eBike rentals as a new amenity. Campground and RV park owners can be ready for the start of the summer camping season by taking advantage of pricing […]

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New eBike Partnership Offers Discounts for Campgrounds

DENVER, CO — eBikes are quickly gaining popularity with campers and RVers of all ages, and campground owners nationwide are finding they can increase ancillary revenue by offering eBike rentals as a new amenity. Campground and RV park owners can be ready for the start of the summer camping season by taking advantage of pricing […]

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Suppliers Benefit from Boom with New Product Development

Like the rest of the RV industry, those supplier companies producing products both seen and unseen on the RV exterior have benefited greatly from the boom of the last three years. And, again like the rest of the industry, many suppliers specializing in RV exteriors also are seeing a slowdown. That said, others selling into […]

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IDS Focuses on Dealer Tech in ‘RV Industry Trends Report’

EDITOR’S NOTE: IDS, the dealership management system provider, has published its “2023 RV Industry Trends Report: The Future of Dealership Technology.” Below is the foreward from General Manager Frank Tamburrini. If there’s one thing the last few years have reminded us of, it’s that the market can change fast! Sometimes faster than we can imagine. […]

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Keystone RV’s Jeff Kloska Designs Family-Friendly Sprinter

Who says RV OEMs don’t actually use their products? Keystone RV’s Jeff Kloska is here to prove them wrong. Kloska, product manager for the Sprinter and Outback brands, set out last summer to design a floorplan that would fit the needs of his family of seven. The result is the Sprinter 3900DBL fifth-wheel, unveiled at […]

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US Consumer Confidence Index Ticks Up Slightly in March

WASHINGTON — Consumer confidence inched up in March after two straight monthly declines, even as persistent inflation, bank collapses and anxiety over a possible recession weighed on American households, according to an Associated Press report. The Conference Board reported today that its consumer confidence index rose to 104.2 in March from 103.4 in February. Optimism […]

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Elkhart County, Ind., Unemployment Rate Drops to 3.8%

ELKHART — Unemployment in the Elkhart/Goshen area dropped in February compared with the previous month, labor statistics show, according to a report in the Elkhart Truth. The unemployment rate in the area dropped to 3.8 percent in February, down from 4.9 percent in January, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development show. The agency […]

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Janine Pettit Turns Lifelong Love of RVing into ‘Girl Camper’

Janine Pettit is known as the “Camper-in-Chief” to the women who engage with the Girl Camper website, her national network of Girl Camper guides, and her quarterly Girl Camper Magazine. She has been inspiring and empowering women to “Go Places and Do Things” — her company motto — for over a decade with a career […]

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February RV Shipments off 53.7% Against Last Year

Results for the RV Industry Association’s (RVIA) February 2023 survey of manufacturers determined that total RV shipments ended the month with 24,903 units, a decrease of (-53.7%) compared to the record 53,773 units shipped in February 2022. For the year to date, RV shipments are down (-57.7%) with 45,308 units shipped as compared to 107,124 […]

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Underwater Wasteland

It is the summer of 2021. I’m half asleep, nestled into the small bow of a speedboat with good friends, while the boat courses through water so turquoise, with corals underneath so bright and teeming with life, that we might as well be in an advertisement for a Caribbean resort. We are in the Caribbean,…

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Ford’s BlueOval City to Produce 500K Electric Pickups a Year

STANTON, Tenn. — Ford Motor Co. on Friday said its BlueOval City manufacturing plant here will be able to produce 500,000 electric pickups per year when it comes online in 2025, according to a report by Automotive News. The site will build a next-generation truck that CEO Jim Farley has said would not be another F-150 Lightning. […]

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Pump Prices are Stuck in Neutral for Now, According to AAA

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Spring has sprung with gas demand surging last week as motorists took advantage of better driving weather. But fears of a recession caused global oil prices to hover near $70 a barrel, mitigating a rise in gas prices. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline drifted lower since last week by […]

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Outdoorsy Recognized Again by ‘a16z Marketplace 100 List’

AUSTIN, Texas – Outdoorsy, a leading global marketplace in outdoor travel, has been recognized for the fourth year in a row as one of the largest and fastest-growing independently operated companies on the 2023 a16z Marketplace 100 list. This ranking comes on the heels of the company being ranked No. 4 in the ‘Travel and […]

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General RV Picks Blue Ox for Towing Equipment Retailer

PENDER, Neb. – Blue Ox, a leading manufacturer of towing equipment, is partnering with General RV Center, one of the nation’s largest family-owned RV dealerships, to connect RV enthusiasts with innovative and reliable weight distribution hitches. Blue Ox is now General RV’s exclusive supplier for all hitching and towing products, according to a release. Blue […]

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Chad Reece Celebrating Career Milestone at Winnebago

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a News & Insights report by the RV Industry Association (RVIA). Chad Reece has never been far from the RV industry. He grew up in a small village near Forest City, IA, not far from Winnebago Industries. Although the RV industry wasn’t initially on Chad’s radar—he’d originally planned to be […]

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