Industry Downturn! RV Sales Have Slumped

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The RV Sales numbers coming out of Elkhart are dismal this summer, with some dealers even using the R-word to describe the seriousness of the problem - R as in Recession! We'll talk about that and much more in this Episode 458 of the RV Podcast, including: * Part 2 of our RV Towing Interview: How to tow a car behind your RV * The difference between an RV converter and an inverter * RV travel tips * Your RV questions * The RV App of the week * And a delicious campfire treat

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This week on the RV podcast, a dismal downturn in the RV industry.
0:06.4	Part two of our RV towing interview, How to Toe a Car Behind Your RV.
0:11.9	The difference between an RV converter and an inverter.
0:16.7	Plus travel tips, your RV questions, and much more coming up on episode 458 of the RV podcast.
0:49.1	Hello again, everybody. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer, and we have had a very busy week.
0:57.0	A busy week it has been. We have some very exciting news. We have a new fifth wheel. Yes, we do. It is a 2024 Montana High Country 311 RD. Yes, we traded in our year and a half old Arcadia 32 foot
1:09.8	fifth wheel and upgraded to this new 35-foot rig.
1:14.6	And why, you ask out there? Well, if you're a regular follower, you know we love the fifth
1:21.2	wheel life. But after a year and a half of the Arcadia, we wanted a little bit more space
1:26.1	and opted for a washer-dryer combo.
1:29.7	Mike was just insistent upon that. He just insisted that we needed a washer and dry it.
1:33.7	Well, really, in a way I have, because we tend to do our laundry every third or fourth day.
1:41.2	Sometimes you do it even, you do it every day.
1:43.8	Well, when we're home, I do it every day.
1:45.7	And boy, we have been to some horrible laundromats on the road. And this is really nice.
1:51.6	Well, we can be past, we've been to some nice ones, but a few have been questionable.
1:55.3	Okay. But a couple other things about this. This has something that we have seen on other RVs,
2:00.7	and we always want one in an outdoor
2:02.2	kitchen. Yeah, a griddle. That's just such a luxury carrying around your propane and then the little
2:11.2	tanks or you hook it up to the big tank. You know, it just kind of gets to be clumberson.
2:16.4	Yeah, it's a lot of extra weight and you've got
2:19.3	to clean it and this is a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

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

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