Hi, everybody. This is Mike Wendland, and this is a special edition of the RV podcast involving a

breaking story that we really need to get out there. Jennifer will be joining me in a bit, but

the RV industry is reeling this week as California and five other clean air states are about to ban

the sale of motor homes with a gross

vehicle weight of over 8,500 pounds. Now, this includes most motorhomes by reference. The average

weight range for a Class C RV is 10 to 12,000 pounds. The range for a super C motor home is 19,500 pounds and up. The average

gross vehicle weight of a class A motor home, typically from 13,000 to 30,000 pounds. Now class

B motorhomes, camper vans, they typically weigh 6 to 8,000 pounds and thus they're not going to be affected.

But this ban affecting the larger motorhomes will go into effect January 1st, 2025.

And this is a story that has caught everybody by surprise.

It came to widespread attention two days ago

when a letter sent by Numer R.V. to its dealers in the affected states told them of this coming

ban. Now, the reason this has shocked the industry is because, frankly, the industry really

expected an exemption from this program.

This program clearly seems aimed at big diesel trucks driven around the clock,

not low mileage recreation vehicles.

Typical RV is driven 3 to 5,000 miles a year.

Well, their reasoning is sound and thinking they should have had the exemption. I mean, it seems pretty cut and dry. But several industry

leaders I talked to in preparing this special report felt that the industry itself and manufacturers

should have been much more outspoken and done more,

that there was perhaps a little bit of complacency, a lack of urgency, because they thought they were right.

Well, whatever, California and the five other states that have signed on to the same clear error regulations

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