Month: January 2016

The North Carolina RV Dealers Association (NCRVDA) is hosting their Annual RV Show this weekend in Charlotte, N.C., Friday (Jan. 22) through Sunday, according to a press release. It’s being held at The Park Expo & Conference Center. The show will feature 10 RV dealers who will be showcasing more than 160 different types and brands of […]

(Jan. 21, 2016) -- About 300 adventurers from all over North America will explore Houma, La., for the first time during the 45th Annual Family Campers and RVers International Retiree Rally in March.

(Jan. 21, 2016) -- That mess, smelling up the entire parking lot in Seattle, covered an entire parking space and appeared to be recently dumped waste from an RV holding tank — human waste.

The Annual OC 405 RV Show is all new for 2016 and runs now through Sunday (Jan. 24), according to a press release. The largest RV show in Orange County, Calif., offers the best of the nation’s top brands, according to sponsor Mike Thompson’s RV, which has five locations and has been around since 1972. This show is free […]

(Jan. 21, 2016) -- The four-week moving average of initial claims, which attempts to smooth out some of the weekly volatility in the measure, jumped to a nine-month high of 285,000 from 278,500 in the previous week.

(Jan. 21, 2016) -- When the North Hykeham premises of caravan and motorhome dealership Camper UK went up in flames two years ago this month, the future looked very bleak indeed. But thankfully, the business has since risen from the ashes and, as Paul Whitelam reports, 2015 was a good year.

(Jan. 21, 2016) -- Eugene builder Keith Schneider is on the cutting edge of this trend. The owner of Bohemian Cottages has built about 30 little abodes with custom floor plans designed to let clients live the lives they want in just a few hundred square feet.

Paul Harter, president and CEO of Aqua-Hot Heating Systems, was elected chairman of the Northern Colorado Manufacturing Partnership (NoCO Partnership). According to a press release, the regional volunteer association consists of manufacturers, educational institutions, economic and workforce development groups, and partner organizations. It connects public and private enterprises to achieve shared goals and further community […]

A bustling crowd of more than 2,500 people — including 200 RV industry aftermarket suppliers — converged Tuesday and Wednesday (Jan. 19-20) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for the New Orleans 2016 NTP-STAG Expo. The gathering represented the first annual convention hosted by Keystone Automotive Operations Inc. in which the clients, vendors and staffs of all three distribution companies acquired […]

Led by another strong performance in the travel trailer sector, year-over-year towable retail registrations grew 17% in November and 16.6% for the first 11 months of 2015, according to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. (SSI). Results by category showed: Sales for the high-volume travel trailer segment increased 21.5% for the month and 20.3% year-to-date. Fifth-wheel registrations […]