Month: September 2016

(Sept. 28, 2016) — All Valley RV Center announced the upcoming opening of their second location. The new facility will be located at 42207 3rd Street East, Lancaster, Calif., 93535; just 15 miles north of their current location.

The Go RVing Tailgate Tour officially kicked off for the 2016 college football season, bringing the “ultimate tailgate experience” to five of the season’s key matchups. According to a press release, the Tailgate Tour sets up in the middle of the action at each college’s FanFest area. The tour opened this past weekend in Pasadena, Calif., for the UCLA […]

A Tampa, Fla., company has introduced a new nontechnical training program to instruct RVers how to use their units safely. Opened in April by Jeff and Lindsey Gaston and partners Mark and Letecia Young, My RV School provided instruction to more than a dozen RV owners at the mid-August Forest River Owners Group (FROG) rally […]

Motorized wholesale values at auction were up significantly September, according to the latest report from Black Book. “Towables made a big jump in values for September, and this time it was motorized’s turn.  Auction volume was up substantially on the motorized side, which tells me that consigners were making every effort to move units and […]

Republican lawmakers pushed back against the Obama administration’s signature plan to boost the average new vehicle’s fuel economy to more than 50 mpg by 2025, with a Texas congressman saying the plan should be repealed. “You can make a good intellectual case to repeal CAFE and let the market handle it,” U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, […]

(Sept. 28, 2016) -- An Indiana state-funded welder training program is starting to bear fruit for Lippert Components and Elkhart County’s growing recreational vehicle industry, which is needy for skilled workers.

(Sept. 28, 2016) -- Lippert Components in Elkhart says they're going totally smoke-free, Jan. 1, 2017. According to the CDC, about 17% of adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes. Michelle Kovacevich is one of them; she works in accounts payable at Lippert.

(Sept. 28, 2016) -- Nelson, British Columbia, city council’s housing committee will recommend to council that 12 sites in the city campground be kept open for the winter on an experimental basis.

(Sept. 28, 2016) -- About once a decade, the Larimer County, Colo., Department of Natural Resources updates its master plan. Department leaders are currently in the third phase of a five-phase planning process that began in June to update the master plans for various reservoirs, including Horsetooth Reservoir, which is the third-busiest reservoir in the state.

Acton, Calif.-based All Valley RV Center announced the upcoming opening of its second location in nearby Lancaster. According to a press release, a grand opening is slated for Nov. 7 at the new facility that will house RV service, collision repair, rentals, and a parts store. With the retiring of long-time local business owner Dale Spooner of Dale’s Hitchin’ Station, […]