Month: January 2012

(Jan. 27, 2012) -- Family Motor Coaching’s annual “Towables” guide offers valuable advice to motorhome owners regarding vehicle selection, making sure it is outfitted with the proper towing equipment, and how to safely tow it. The guide includes 137 model-year 2012 vehicles from 21 different manufacturers that have been approved to be towed four wheels down behind a motorhome.

(Jan. 27, 2012) -- Sales volumes are much lower in the RV, marine and powersports industries than the auto industry, and there's less consistency in terms of sales and marketing incentives from the manufacturers, "so dealers tend to keep mum on their invoice pricing," Taylor explained. "SeeDealerCost.com is meant to educate and offer more transparency so people feel more comfortable -- and eager -- when making a new or used vehicle purchase."

(Jan. 27, 2012) --  "Much of the strength in the fourth quarter of 2011 reflected a sizeable addition to growth from inventories that is not likely to be repeated," Janzen explained. "This suggests some downside risk to our forecast for GDP growth early in 2012. However, recent strengthening in labor markets, including a slowing trend in layoffs, bodes well for consumer spending to continue to grow."

(Jan. 27, 2012) -- The 135-pitch park, located on a 20-acre site alongside the River Teme, and with good road links to the A49 near Richards Castle, is already generating huge interest from caravanners who are keen to pay a visit.

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- The Recreational Park Trailer Industry Association is contemplating a move that could reunite two industry segments as a single voice under the RV Industry Association's umbrella for the first time since 1983, RV Daily Report has learned.

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- For the first 11 months of 2011, trailer sales are down 1.4 percent. While overall sales are down, the percentages are getting close to even with those of 2010, said Andy Ackerman, president of NATDA.

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- "Our view is that recent economic data suggest that the U.S. economy has been able to raise its game with solid employment gains recorded in December," said Desjardins. "Recent reports also point to the economy having grown at a 3 percent annualized pace in the fourth quarter of 2011 with early signs showing that the momentum continued into the first quarter of 2012."

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- This week's recipe is for cabbage and bacon skillet. It was submitted by Paul Meicher, from Sioux Falls, S.D. He has been RVing for eight years and has a Class A motorhome.

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- WHSV reports that a bill in the Virginia General Assembly, which would have required public campsites to base their fees on private ones, has been dropped.

(Jan. 26, 2012) -- Residents of the Corral RV Park in Tomball love living the simple life. But developer Mike O’Brien's plans to expand could force most of those residents out because of a zoning ordinance that limits tenant stays to only 90 days, a restriction he was unaware of, reports Your Houston News.