Bob Ashley

The timing of RV manufacturers’ model release dates was a prime topic during the Texas Recreational Vehicle Association’s (TRVA) annual meeting Aug. 15-17 at the La Cantera Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. During a 2 1/2-hour dealers-only meeting, frustration was expressed – as it has been for years by recreational vehicle dealers to no avail […]

Although overall U.S. wholesale RV shipments of 168,884 units were up 6% year-to-date through May, the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) latest shipment report released Thursday (June 25) indicated that total shipments in May slipped 5.8% versus the same month in 2014. That, of course, was a wake-up call for a resurgent industry so accustomed […]

Bruce Hopkins’ passport is filling up as he is shepherding several countries through the intricacies of establishing international standards compatible to those of the  Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA). As vice president of standards for the Reston, Va.-based trade organization, Hopkins has been to China eight times trying to educate the Chinese government as the […]

Two vintage travel trailers purchased from the RV/MH Hall of Fame and Museum in Elkhart, Ind., will be the focus this fall of an hour-long episode of ”Flippin’ RVs” on the Great American Country (GAC) cable channel. The Hall had the units in a storage barn in nearby Bristol, according to HOF Chairman and President […]

Although Country Coach Inc. stopped building high-end diesel pusher motorhomes in 2009, the brand lives on thanks to 11 chapters of the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA). Included is Country Coach Friends Inc. (CCFI), a 300-plus-member nonprofit that was created shortly after the Junction City-Ore.-based company — founded by RV-industry entrepreneur Bob Lee — went out of […]

Fleetwood RV will have the first national showing starting today (June 11) through the weekend of the redesigned gas-powered 2016 Bounder motorhome during the company’s national rally at its factory in Decatur, Ind. The owners of some 400 Fleetwood motorhomes are expected to attend and see a full array of Fleetwood and American Coach motorhomes. […]

Seffner, Fla.-based Lazydays RV kicked off its sponsorship of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL football team over the weekend with an RV show at Raymond James Stadium where the Bucs play their home games. (To view a slideshow from the event scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page). ”It went real well,” said […]

Workhorse Group Inc. expects to be producing Class A gas motorhome chassis at its Union City, Ind., factory by the end of the year and building ”thousands” by the end of next year. ”We are producing pilots right now and will be in full production in 2016,” Workhorse COO Caimin Flannery told RVBUSINESS.com. Assets of […]

Members of the Michigan Knights of the Highways, Midwest (Ohio) Coachmen and Northeastern (N.Y.) chapters of the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) are gathered this weekend at the Fulton County Fairgrounds in Wauseon, Ohio, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their founding. Here members serve a potluck dinner Thursday (May 14) night. Although FMCA was […]

With what was described as perfect weather, 1,135 coaches owners booked into the Family Motor Coach Association’s (FMCA) 91st Family Reunion and Motorhome Showcase that ended Sunday (March 29) at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. ”It was a little smaller than normal in numbers, but the enthusiasm was higher,” said Jerry Yeatts, executive director of […]