Month: December 2016

Elkhart, Ind., once had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Now, though, it’s booming. The once-shuttered factories of the recreational vehicle industry, which is concentrated here, are full of workers, their parking lots packed with employees stepping over snow banks to work long hours to fulfill consumer orders. As reported by The Atlantic, the city […]

REV Group has filed an amended S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its initial public offering (IPO). According to 24/7 Wall Street, no pricing details were listed in this filing, although in the last filing the company valued the offering up to $100 million. The company intends to list its […]

Winnebago Industries Inc. offers a walkthrough of its Voyage Lite 25RKS fifth-wheel. To view the video click here or scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page.

For the second straight year, “Rollin’ On TV” (ROTV), the nation’s leading weekly RV lifestyle television program, will broadcast the annual RVBusiness Magazine RV Of The Year Awards Show on Jan. 9 at the RV/MH Hall of Fame Museum/Northern Indiana Event Center in Elkhart, Ind. The awards program is scheduled to air the week of Jan. 29 before […]

Editor’s Note: The following is a list of recent RV-related recalls compiled by the U.S National Highway Transportation Safety Association (NHTSA). • Gulf Stream Coach Inc. is recalling 340 2016-2017 Conquest and B Touring Cruiser Class C motorhomes manufactured Sept. 24, 2015 through Oct. 24, 2016. In the affected vehicles, the in-dash radio unit assembly was improperly […]

Consumer optimism about the economy increased to the highest level since August 2001, according to a monthly survey released today (Dec. 27). CNBC reported that the Consumer Confidence Index hit 113.7 in December, The Conference Board said. Economists polled by Reuters expected the Consumer Confidence Index to hit 109.0 for the month. The survey, a […]

Automakers are on pace to build more new cars and light trucks in 2016 than in any other year, but efforts to reduce bloated inventories next year could lead to North America’s first production decline since the Great Recession. As reported by Automotive News, record sales paces in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have kept […]

More than a dozen RV repair experts spent a year updating and rewriting the popular “Service Management Guide.” According to a release, the all-new 11th edition has more than 100 pages of average work times for the functions RV technicians perform most frequently, along with service check sheets to serve as a reference for service […]

U.S. retail gasoline prices continued moving higher as the year winds down, but some relief may come with the start of the new year, AAA reports. UPI reported that the motor club said an average retail price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.29, relatively unchanged from the previous day, but up 4 cents […]

More than 20 million people visited Missouri state parks in 2016, setting a new attendance record and marking the first time that milestone had been achieved, Gov. Jay Nixon recently announced.  The West Plains Daily Quill reported that in 2009, the Gov. Nixon set out to reverse a decade-long decline in attendance at state parks […]