Month: December 2013

(Dec. 16, 2013) -- "Everything the Learning Center does focuses on one goal -- educating the RV dealership workforce to promote industry excellence," said Ingrassia. "High standards grow our industry and translate into prosperous dealerships. Educated dealership professionals are the key to customer satisfaction. And customer satisfaction expands our industry."

(Dec. 16, 2013) -- Reese, a brand of Cequent Performance Products, has been named the recipient of two Trailer Life magazine Readers’ Choice awards. Reese is the Gold winner in the fifth-wheel category and the Silver winner in the travel trailer hitch category.

RV Trader and Winnebago Industries Inc. jointly announced the launch of a real-time inventory tool to assist customers searching for RVs on Winnebagoind.com sites: GoWinnebago.com, GoItasca.com, WinnebagoTouring.com, WinnebagoTowables.com and SunnyBrookRV.com. According to a press release, when a consumer browses RVs on Winnebago websites, the new search tool will display a dealer’s inventory, product photos and [...]

(Dec.16, 2013) -- Campers who like rustic state forest campgrounds will have a few more choices in 2014. State officials are planning to reopen at least four of 12 that were closed in 2009 due to budget constraints.

(Dec. 16, 2013) -- "The more stable manufacturing component also was stronger than expected, by rising 0.6 percent in November compared to expectations for a 0.4 percent gain," said Janzen. "Manufacturing output was in part supported by stronger motor vehicle production with the motor vehicle assembly rate rising to its highest level since June 2006."

Reese, a brand of Cequent Performance Products (CPP), has been named the recipient of two Trailer Life Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. According to a press release, Reese is the Gold winner in the fifth-wheel category and a Silver winner in the travel trailer hitch category. The online survey was posted for six months and more than [...]

(Dec. 16, 2013) -- Legal action could be taken against campers in Bahrain who are putting their own lives in danger by erecting tents in hazardous areas of the desert, which is where the nation's oil and gas field is located.

(Dec. 16, 2013) -- This will be the second time away from the corporate home base of Heber Springs, Ark., that Workamper News hosts Workamper Discovery Days. The experience is designed to prepare RVers for their future workamping lifestyle. A workamper is an RVer who chooses to live in their RV and work.

Residents in one of New York’s most exclusive neighborhoods are up in arms after several beaten-up old RVs are reported blighting the streets. According to a report in the U.K-based Daily Mail Reporter, angry Upper West Side locals have complained that the vehicles are turning their highly desirable area into a trailer park, taking up [...]

Ashland, Va.-based McGeorge’s Rolling Hills RV continues to expand. According to a report in the Richmond Times Dispatch, owner Ed McGeorge started with nine acres when he moved to the dealership’s current site from a nearby location in 2001. Now the dealership sits on 31 acres. And he is about to begin construction on a 30,000-square-foot [...]