Month: January 2016

(Jan. 25, 2016) -- While Seattleites plead for help with RVs flooding the streets, one community is breathing a sigh of relief after it was able to move the roadside campers out.

(Jan. 25, 2016) -- Authorities said three people were taken to the hospital Friday night after being exposed to carbon monoxide in a trailer in Maryville, Tenn.

(Jan. 25, 2016) -- Thieves made off with a woman’s camper trailer, containing the ashes of her daughter, earlier this month after it was parked in the driveway of a Clarinda, Australia, property.

(Jan. 25, 2016) -- Andrew Ditton, who said he fell in love with Scotland after travelling to the Outer Hebrides in 2009, now lives in his Airstream caravan while doing his degree.

Faced with less than expected community buy-in over the past couple of years, officials with Ivy Tech Community College are hitting the pause button on a new workforce training facility planned for the college’s Elkhart County campus. Ivy Tech Northwest/North Central Chancellor Thomas Coley outlined in a recent interview the college’s evolving vision of the […]

Year-over-year Canadian towable sales declined 16.9% in November and 11.9% for the first 11 months, according to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. (SSI). Results by segment showed: • Sales in the travel trailer sector fell 15.4% in November and 10.5% year-to-date. • Canadian fifth-wheel sales declined 19.5% for the month and 16.7% through November. • Folding camping trailer […]

This week’s “RV Capital Talk” features an in-depth interview with NTP-STAG Vice President and General Manager Bill Rogers during last week’s “Expo” in New Orleans which drew more than 2,500 people to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The gathering represented the first annual convention hosted by Keystone Automotive Operations Inc. in which the clients, vendors […]

Bullyan RV has come a long way since its beginnings at a small used-car lot in West Duluth, Minn.,  in the early 1950s. More than 60 years later, it is the largest recreational vehicle dealer in Northeastern Minnesota, according to a report by the Duluth News Tribune. And it’s still growing. Sitting on 15 acres, […]

Modern horsemen may still be traveling the country attending shows and rodeos, but they don’t need to rough it anymore. As reported by the Temple Telegram, cowboy camping takes on a whole new meaning when Temple, Texas-based Compass Conversions designs a trailer. “About 90% to 95% of our business is customizing living quarters in horse […]

Raul Ramirez, long-time general sales manager of Fun Town RV’s Superstore in Cleburne, Texas, has been promoted to vice president of sales over all the dealerships in the chain.  According to a press release, Ramirez started working for Sam Kidd at Fun Time RV in 1986 when he was 21 years old. “I started selling popups,” said Ramirez, […]