Yellowstone Debuts Ridgeline Executive Fiver

Yellowstone Ridgeline Executive interior Yellowstone RV LLC, Nappanee, Ind., has introduced the high-line Ridgeline Executive Series fifth-wheel with up to five slideouts. Available in 37- and 38-foot floorplans, the Ridgeline Executive Series features increased storage, a walk-around King bedroom and residential-style kitchen and livingroom. ”Instead of creating another brand and the confusion that goes along with that, we’ve extended the Ridgeline brand,” said Ken Geljack, general... Read more

Freightliner to Debut High-Horsepower Chassis

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. (FCCC), Gaffney, S.C., will introduce a high-end tag-axle chassis with an engine new to the RV industry at the 49th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky. ”It’s going to be a high-horsepower chassis,” said Jonathan Randall, FCCC director of sales and marketing. ”It is going to be for high-end Class A coaches with a powertrain (engine) that people will be familiar with in the bus business or shell conversions.” While declining... Read more

Forest River Expects $500M Open House Sales

Dealers gather at Forest River open house With total attendance of ”just under 3,000” dealership personnel, Elkhart-based Forest River Inc. is expecting to garner $500 million in wholesale sales from Elkhart County’s 4th Annual RV Open House Week, Sept. 19-23 in and around the RV-building center of Elkhart, Ind. “Tuesday and Wednesday were exactly what we thought they would be,” said Jeff Babcock, general manager of Forest River’s motorized operations, including... Read more

Travel Lite Enters Trailer Market with New ‘idea’

Travel Lite's "idea" trailer Truck camper manufacturer Travel Lite Inc. has expanded into lightweight towables with the new entry-level ”idea” travel trailer. ”This fits well with our existing production line,” said Dustin Johns, vice president of the 15-year-old New Paris, Ind., company. ”It’s going to be a unique product in its visual appeal.” The ”idea” will be introduced to dealers at the upcoming 49th Annual RV Trade Show Nov.... Read more

Columbia Northwest to Debut Somerset Popups

Allan Reeping, Aliner camping sales manager A-frame folding camping trailer manufacturer Columbia Northwest Inc./Aliner has begun manufacturing Somerset folding camping trailers that are reminiscent in appearance of the units built until earlier this year by investment firm FTCA Inc. under the Coleman brand name. The new foldout will be on display at the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) 49th Annual National RV Trade Show Nov. 29-Dec. 1 in Louisville, Ky. ”Our intent is... Read more

Little Guy Worldwide Reintroduces T@B Trailer

T@B trailer reintroduced by Little Guy Worldwide The diminutive T@B travel trailer is being reintroduced to the North American market by Little Guy Worldwide, Massillion, Ohio, which sells, markets and distributes Little Guy and Silver Shadow teardrop trailers built on contract by Pleasant Valley Trailer in Sugarcreek, Ohio. The T@B, last marketed in the U.S. two years ago by Dutchmen Manufacturing Inc., is based on a unit first built in 2001 by Germany’s Tabbert Caravan GmbH. ”We were... Read more

EverGreen Adds 2 Dual-Axle Element Offerings

EverGreen's Element travel trailer EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC has added two 26-foot dual-axle floorplans to its innovative, eco-friendly, Euro-styled Element travel trailer. With dry weights of around 5,000 pound, these longer new single-slide floorplans include dry baths — unlike the original Element shown at last year’s Louisville Show — while the Element continues to raise the bar in terms of styling in today’s popular small-trailer market. ”(The market)... Read more

Travel Lite Launches Super Lite Truck Camper

770 Super Lite truck camper interior Travel Lite Inc., New Paris, Ind., has introduced the entry-level Travel Lite 770 Super Lite truck camper that uses an exotic wood from South America to cut down on the weight. ”We’ve use banack wood in the sidewalls, which dramatically reduces the weight,” said Dustin Johns, vice president of the family owned company founded in 1998. ”We also looked at the overall applications. That helped us strip the weight out to make it easily compatible... Read more

GPS-Based System Helps Industry Track RVs

Jon Corn California entrepreneur Jon Corn has introduced a GPS-based wireless system that can be installed in RVs to track their location and provide other information via the Internet that can be used by manufacturers, dealers, suppliers, wholesale and retail lenders and consumers in a variety of ways. ”Every stakeholder can access useful information and data through our system,” said Corn, president of RV-ID Inc., Solana Beach, Calif. Corn, former general counsel for now-defunct National... Read more

Quarterly ‘RV magazine’ Redesigns Consumer Site

RV magazine's summer issue RV magazine, a three-year-old quarterly newsstand publication from Source Interlink Media, Tampa, Fla., recently redesigned its website (www.rvmagonline.com) to make it more user-friendly for its RV consumer readership. ”The website is pretty true to the spirit and content of the magazine with a few web-exclusive stories,” said Jeff Dahlin, Interlink Truck Group publisher, who oversees El Segundo, Calif.-based RV magazine. ”We have to be careful about how much... Read more

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