General Interest

(March 17, 2008) -- The declines are severe, but not altogether surprising. Demand continues to suffer as consumer confidence deteriorates and the promise of lower borrowing costs so far fails to materialize.

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(March 13, 2008) -- Eucalyptus at Beaumont, a private storage community, offers fully enclosed garage type storage designed specifically for the storage of recreational vehicles that are owned, not rented.

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(March 12, 2008) -- Unneeded FEMA trailers represented almost 30 percent of the U.S. recreational vehicle market. All told, the government was making about 40 cents on the dollar in selling the trailers and mobile homes.

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(March 11, 2008) -- In a blog posted at RV.net, Mark Polk offers suggestions that give RV dealers an opportunity to perform additional service work to help RVers save money on fuel.

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(March 10, 2008) -- While the impact of a major strike and slumping economy have some people worried about the economic viability of the Michigan/Indiana corridor, others see opportunity ahead.

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(March 5, 2008) -- In his first-ever television interview, Dr. De Rosa, tells Dan Rather that he wanted to warn the public about the dangers of formaldehyde exposure but his warnings were repeatedly ignored, and not included in an official government report until much later.

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(March 5, 2008) -- Rather than make emergency trailers to the standards used on regular mobile homes and travel trailers, many manufacturers used inexpensive plywood from China and employed sloppier production methods than are usual as a way to cut costs and make higher profits, according to the liberal-leaning Federation of American Scientists.

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(March 5, 2008) -- Now, the news that federal health regulators have found unusually high levels of formaldehyde in trailers built by several local companies for people displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is making some people wonder whether the industry here will face another setback. 

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(March 3, 2008) -- Beginning March 31 in most states the company will offer pet injury coverage, free with collision and comprehensive coverage, that pays up to $500 if a dog or cat is hurt or dies because of a crash, fire or flood.

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(Feb. 28, 2008) -- One DVD, titled Towing Behind Your Motorhome, covers everything the consumer needs to know about safely towing a vehicle behind a motorized RV. The other one., titled Trailer Towing, Weights, Hitchwork & Backing, clears up all of the confusion on towing travel trailers and fifth wheel trailers.

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(Feb. 28, 2008) -- "For myself,in 28 years of driving cars and motorcycles, I have never had a tire failure. I estimate I owned 12 motorcycles and 20 cars, and have driven a million miles. I have NEVER had a tire failure. A few flats yes, but never a tire failure. But why then in the RV industry do I know so many people that have suffered tire failures?

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(Feb. 27, 2008) -- The 42-foot "Talking Smack Express" RV, decorated Gridiron Bash from head-to-toe, will visit about 15 college campuses across the country as part of a promotional tour for the inaugural event.

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(Feb. 18, 2008) -- Home is where you put your hat, providing you can find a place for your hat. For Goose Creek Memorial football coach Bret Boyd and defensive coordinator Wes Rodgers, home is a 28-foot long trailer.

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(Feb. 14, 2008) --  The "Traveling Lexpo" RV will visit law firms, courthouses and law schools in 12 states to demonstrate the impact of technology on the practice of law.

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(Feb. 13, 2008) -- To combate "house lust," a Maryland family trades in their 6,000-square-foot home for a 370-foot motorhome in order to follow Dad around the country on his job. Living in tight quarters has bonded the family of four much closer.

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(Feb. 13, 2008) --  The latest goof by the RV industry is the placement of 250-pound refrigerators onto the slideouts. Load it up with a further 200 pounds of food, place it at the front of the slide and there you have a 450-pound bubba on your already overloaded front axle.

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(Feb. 13, 2008) -- The defendants would find a new buyer or driver for the motor home and have that person sign an agreement promising to pay on the original loan, often requiring down payments of thousands of dollars. The new buyers were told they were buying the motorhomes, the lawsuit alleges.

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(Feb. 13, 2008) -- When the RV Safety Education Foundation weighed more than 10,000 RVs, nearly a quarter of them had loads that exceeded the capacity of the tires on the vehicles by an average of 900 pounds.

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(Feb. 13, 2008) -- While on the road or at home, viewers can keep pace with the uproarious monthly exploits of the Arvee family, in the ‘Arvee Family Adventures’ cartoon strip. The illustrated family is made up of Stan and June Arvee and their various family members, who all pile into an RV and hit the road for their first collective RV-ing adventure.

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(Feb. 11, 2008) -- The law office is housed in a 27-foot RV staffed by volunteer lawyers and law students that been traveling from city to city offering free legal services to veterans.

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