Behind the RV Backlog: Why they’re sold out for the next year or more

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Have you wondered what's behind the RV backlog and why new RVs are sold out for many, many months to come? As they say, it's complicated. And very frustrating to the industry. Read (and HEAR and WATCH) the perspective of a manufacturer, a supplier, and dealer have with the current (and future) situation for customers.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody, to the RV podcast number 349.
0:05.3	And this week, we're going to talk about the RV industry.
0:09.0	It is sold out.
0:11.1	And we're going to tell you why you may not be able to get a new RV for years.
0:18.2	Welcome, fellow travelers.
0:19.8	It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.
0:22.9	Answering your questions, sharing tips, suggesting great trips and off the beaten path adventures,
0:28.6	and always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about, with great interviews and inside industry information.
0:36.5	Here's your host, award-winning journalists, Mike and Jennifer Wendland.
0:42.6	We're glad to be with you, and welcome back.
0:45.5	We're getting ready to leave tomorrow for a trip along, Lake Huron.
0:49.5	Yep, we're going to hurry up and get this podcast on because we got some RVN to do.
0:55.1	We have a new book coming out in just a few weeks on a Great Lake Shoreline tour.
1:01.0	And we're going to go up and give you a preview and a video that we're working on about how Great Lake Huron is.
1:06.7	But we'll have more to say about that.
1:08.9	We get a little closer to the publication date but
1:12.2	it's been kind of hard to find spot so the best we could do was a couple of days in a state
1:20.5	park it was it was not easy even in the middle of the week everybody's felt one of the things that
1:26.2	makes it a little easier is harvest host and
1:29.0	so that's what we've been able to do we got a park so we could find open and then we book some
1:34.4	harvest host stops so we're we're good to go but it takes a lot more jiggling around now doesn't it
1:40.1	he's got to be organized juggling the sites juggling the sites. It gets pretty great.
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