Shasta RV Intros Ultra-Lightweight Freeport

Exterior view of Shasta RV's new Freeport 27RLS Shasta RV recently introduced a new line of ultra-lightweight travel trailers under the Freeport brand name. “Freeport provides our customers with a product that looks and feels like an upper mid-line travel trailer, while positioning it at an entry level price point,” Brad Whitehead, president of Middlebury, Ind.-based Shasta, stated in a news release. “Freeport is priced right, positioned right and weighs light, and these floorplans will... Read more

Texas RV Park Developer Fights Three Issues

Between Kleberg Park and the Stone Brook neighborhood in Kingsville, Texas, lies a patch of land that’s the source of a three-fold problem. Frederick Bigelow says a developer plans to put an RV resort in the empty lot that lies between his neighborhood and Kleberg park, KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi, reported. But Bigelow says his home value is not the issue. To build the RV park on the lot, the city would have to rezone the land for commercial property. It’s something Bigelow doesn’t... Read more

Monaco Holds Supplier Summit in Wakarusa

Monaco's Supplier Summit Monaco RV LLC, manufacturer of motorized and towable recreational vehicles, held a two-day Supplier Summit Meeting April 25-26 at its Wakarusa, Ind., manufacturing facilities. The two-day event, led by John Healey, vice president of corporate purchasing, brought suppliers together to discuss a variety of topics to enhance Monaco RV products, improve relationships and increase cost efficiencies, according to a news release. The suppliers were given an overview of the current... Read more

Chrysler Group Will Repay All Bailout Loans

Chrysler Group LLC  announced today (April 28) that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to repay in full the outstanding obligations under the loans provided to Chrysler Group by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Canadian federal and Ontario governments, according to a news release. Chrysler Group intends to complete the repayment during the second quarter of 2011 from proceeds of a new term loan facility and newly issued debt securities to be offered and sold to institutional... Read more

Sandpiper Eyes Smaller Tow Vehicle Market

Interior view of the Sandpiper 28RE floorplan. To meet the ever changing market conditions of the RV industry, Sandpiper, a Forest River Inc. division, is expanding some of its already successful product offerings. Sandpiper “Select” is the latest addition into its array of fifth-wheels, travel trailers and destination trailers, according to a news release. With truck manufactures seeing the biggest spike of half-ton sales in history, the Sandpiper Select product is designed to capture... Read more

Indiana AG: No Evidence of Gas Price-Fixing

Market factors, rather than price-fixing practices, were determined to be the cause for a significant increase in gas prices at three gasoline stations in Indianapolis and one in nearby Terre Haute, Ind. The attorney general’s office conducted an immediate review of consumer and media reports that prices rose to $4.17 per gallon in a short period of time. The review was conducted by Tom Bodin, the attorney general’s chief economist, Inside INdiana Business reported. The stations were asked to... Read more

Willie Nelson Boosts Tents for Troops Cause

Willie Nelson Tents for Troops, the organization that provides free camping for active military, received a huge boost Tuesday afternoon (April 26) as American country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson gave the program a hand in helping spread the word. Nelson mentioned the program on his Facebook and Twitter account, which combined have over 800,000 viewers. Within an hour the amount of “likes” for the Tents for Troops page doubled, and by that evening it had nearly tripled, according to a news... Read more

RVIA Hosts Seminar on New NFPA Standards

Part of the audience at the recent standards seminar held in South Bend, Ind. The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) Standards Department hosted a well-attended seminar to educate industry members on the 2011 editions of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1192 Standard for Recreational Vehicles, the ANSI 12V Standard for Low Voltage Systems in Conversion and Recreational Vehicles and the National Electric Code (NEC). The session, held April 12 in South Bend, Ind.,... Read more

NeXus RV Building 1 Unit/Day; Sales Reach 62

Claude Donati (left) and Dave Middleton, co-founders of NeXus RV in Elkhart, Ind. To view videos on the NeXus website, click here. It’s no longer a dream or even a plan —- it’s a reality. Less than nine months after planning their own RV startup, Dave Middleton and Claude Donati have NeXus RV operating in Elkhart, Ind., and have sold 62 units, the South Bend Tribune reported. The company, which got off the ground in August at Notre Dame’s Innovation Park, has been... Read more

RVIA Names Lead Committee Week Speakers

The Willard InterContinental Hotel In addition to the important planning done during meetings of the various Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) standing committees, this year’s Committee Week will also feature two informative luncheon events that will give attendees critical information about the RV market and association activities. Those events are discussed in the current issue of RVIA Today Express. The story follows. Joint Committee Luncheon On Monday, June 6, Richard Curtin, director... Read more

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