Good Sam to Discontinue Highways Magazine

Highways magazine, the “official communication” of the Good Sam Club, the 1.36-million member RV consumer club operated by Good Sam Enterprises LLC, Lincolnshire, Ill., will be effectively discontinued in February. However, Highways, a quarterly publication that dates back more than 40 years and is now one of only a handful of remaining consumer print titles serving the North American RV industry, will still be available as a quarterly insert in the company’s other monthly consumer... Read more

Good Sam to Discontinue Highways Magazine

Highways magazine, the “official communication” of the Good Sam Club, the 1.36-million member RV consumer club operated by Good Sam Enterprises LLC, Lincolnshire, Ill., will be effectively discontinued in February. However, Highways, a quarterly publication that dates back more than 40 years and is now one of only a handful of remaining consumer print titles serving the North American RV industry, will still be available as a quarterly insert in the company’s other monthly consumer RV... Read more

Gaeddert Shoots Straight at RV Power Breakfast

Doug Gaeddert (right) talks with Thor's Bob Martin at Power Breakfast Along with the omelets and pork sausages in the buffet line, Doug Gaeddert, chairman of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) and a general manager of Elkhart, Ind.-based Forest River Inc., served up some straight-shooting opinions in his remarks during the RV Power Breakfast, May 9 at the Northern Indiana Event Center, a part of the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart. Here’s a few highlights from Gaeddert, who served... Read more

Winnebago Launches 1st Ducato-Based Coach

Winnebago Touring Coach Travato While Winnebago Industries, Inc. yesterday (April 30) unveiled an array of 2014 product lines at the Iowa-based company’s annual Dealer Days Event at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, the most significant debut for some industry watchers was the unveiling of the first U.S. motorized RV built on Chrysler’s new 2014 Ram ProMaster van. Winnebago’s new Class B is called the Travato. The Ram ProMaster van, introduced early this year as an adaptation... Read more

On Display in Vegas: ‘New Age of Winnebago’

Winnebago rolls motorhomes off the assembly line As the curtain rises today (April 29) on Winnebago Industries Inc.’s Dealer Days Event at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, RV retailers in attendance will encounter a financially revitalized company with an array of new 2014 product offerings, including at least one entirely new motorhome line. Representing the northern Iowa builder’s dealer body of 480 towable and motorized retailers, attendees will find a company that has, in... Read more

’13 Elkhart RV Open House Set for Sept. 17-19

Dealers check out Thor's display at last year's Open House There’s no formal organization that oversees the annual Elkhart RV Open House because that’s not the way things work with this wildcat industry trade show that’s taken the industry by storm ever since September of 2009 when Elkhart, Ind.-based Forest River Inc. President and CEO Pete Liegl called dealers together for new model year product debuts and some morale-boosting social time with the company’s management team and fellow... Read more

Detroit Diesel Brand Back in Motorhome Game

(L-R) Detroit Diesel’s Doug Weatherly, senior sales manager, Pam Esshaki, assembly quality coordinator, and Tony Sippel, Freightliner’s director of sales and marketing. Detroit Diesel — a familiar brand name in the motorhome business -– surfaced again at Newmar Corp.’s April 9-11 dealer meeting in the Dallas suburbs where the engine builder’s factory personnel were on hand with a display model of the legendary power plant set up in the middle of the Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp.... Read more

Newmar Show Good Sign for Motorized Sales

Newmar President Matt Miller (L) and John Sammut, VP of sales and marketing Judging by the activity level at Newmar Corp.’s dealer meeting, April 9-11 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, the recreational vehicle industry’s gradual recovery appears to be continuing in a big way. Beyond all of the glitz and glitter of the new 2014 models on display, the big news for family-held Newmar’s management team at its first dealer meeting since 2008 had to do with the upbeat... Read more

Strong Turnout Marks NE Campground Confab

Immediate Past President of the Northeast Campground Association Mike Irons (left) reads a citation honoring David L. Berg (right) with the NCA’s Curtis Fuller Service Award. The Northeast Campground Association (NCA) reported a strong turnout for its 49th Annual Camping & Trade Show held March 21-23 at the Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center in Sturbridge, Mass. Independent park operators representing almost 100 parks in 10 states attended the event, which featured seminars, a charity... Read more

ARVC Monitoring the Wave of New Legislation

Jeff Sims The amount of relevant new state legislation impacting the RV park and campground sector has virtually exploded over the past year, according to Jeff Sims, director of state relations and program advocacy for the Centennial, Colo.-based National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (ARVC). While ARVC hires its own lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and a few state trade groups have their own legislative advocates, Sims focuses on bills that might represent either a boon or bust for park... Read more

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