meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
CarStuff

How RVs Work

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2009

⏱️ 31 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Recreational vehicles come in a range of sizes, from small trailers to bus-sized rolling apartments. Some RV enthusiasts use these vehicles for camping, while others may live in the RV all year. Learn more in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.2

Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything automotive with high-speed stuff from How StuffWorks.com.

0:13.8

Hey, Scott, how are you doing?

0:15.7

Doing well, thank you, Ben.

0:17.3

I have had, yet again, you know, I'm a little bit impulsive, right?

0:21.7

Yeah, I know that.

0:22.5

Okay, well, you know, we're still friends nonetheless.

0:25.3

I think it'd be kind of cool to live in my car.

0:27.8

I know we did a podcast about this earlier, and please don't think I'm rehashing the same material,

0:34.6

because what I was hoping we could talk about today wait wait wait what is this a van

0:39.2

down by the river this this is not well not anymore that you brought it up in a way that i can see you i

0:46.7

could see you maybe want to live in a van down by the river but um no okay go ahead sorry didn't mean to

0:51.8

van down by the river well yeah you know the god bless chris... God bless Chris Farley. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I'm missing. I, you know, I do want a van and I love rivers. But before I go to that step, let's plan B that one. Let's consider that plan B. Because right now, plan A for me is RVs. Oh. First question. Do you know what that stands for? I do, and that's a much better idea than the van idea.

1:14.6

And our... for me is RVs. Oh. First question. Do you know what that stands for? I do, and that's a much better idea than, you know, the van idea. An RV is a recreational vehicle, and there's a lot of different types of these things. We can talk about a few of those today if you want to. You know, there's everything from the bus style all the way down to the little tiny kind that you pull behind your car. fifth wheel kind yeah fit well even smaller than that oh okay so uh there's a ton of different

1:32.4

variety and you know a lot of variety i should say and um well where do you want to start okay all right

1:37.7

this sounds this sounds like we can dig into this let's start with defining an RV what makes an

1:44.0

RV what's the difference between RV in and a car? Okay, well, easy enough, I guess. If you're talking about the big RVs that you drive, yeah. Okay, that's where it gets a little confusing. There's about seven different classes here. So if you want to talk about the ones that you drive, most people are familiar with this. They look like a bus usually uh they're great big um of course on wheels um they they have uh sleeping

2:08.3

facilities they have their own electricity that well actually they hook up to electricity

2:12.2

they have their own water uh they have their own you know restrooms they have

2:16.8

kitchens large screen TVs they have everything they're the big ones. You can take this all the way down to little pop-up campers that, you know, you pull behind a truck or something like that, or maybe even a car. It depends on what kind of car it is, but there's everything in between as well. And, you know, it just depends on how much you're to spend, how much you're going to use it, I guess. And if this is going to replace your home, really,

2:39.1

because I think for some people it replaces their home. Oh, yeah. The practice I've heard is called

2:44.8

snowboarding by some people. It's people who are camping enthusiasts or want to travel around

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.