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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Meet a guy that flips RVs

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on Episode 551 of the RV Podcast:  We introduce you to our friend Tom McAlister, who is an avid RVer with a profitable hobby: He flips RVs. You'll learn how he does it and tour his latest. Plus, the RV News of the Week, the Social Media Buzz, Your RV questions and Mike and Jen’s RV Storytime. You can watch the video version from our RV Lifestyle YouTube Channel by clicking the player below. If you prefer an audio-only podcast, you can hear us through your favorite podcast app or listen now through the player below. RV NEWS OF THE WEEK ​Indiana Governor Applauds Halt to CA Emissions Rules That Threatened New Motor Home Sales​ This shouldn’t come as a big surprise but Indiana's governor is praising the end to the Biden Administration's Clean Air Act Waiver that gave California the ability to force new sales of heavy-duty vehicles, like trucks and RVs, to be zero emission this year. Many in the RV industry felt this would effectively ban the sale of new motor homes in California and other states that followed their standards. With Indiana producing 90 percent of America's RVs, the Hoosier state had much at stake had it remained in place. ​License Plate Snapped, Ticket Mailed: Colorado’s New Radar System Goes Live Soon​ Just because you don’t see a cop in Colorado, it doesn't mean that you can’t be ticketed! The Colorado Department of Transportation recently installed its first photo radar cameras, which it will use to ticket those who speed in high-risk work zones. The camera snaps a picture of a vehicle's license at one place and again at a second place and analyzes whether the person is speeding. If the vehicle is going more than 10 miles per hour above the designated speed, a speeding ticket will be issued. The program will soon start on Hwy 119 near Boulder. ​He Got Too Close: Another Tourist Gored by Bison in Yellowstone National Park​ The tourons just keep a comin’... This time it was a New Jersey tourist got too close to a bison at Yellowstone National Park last week and was gored. This is the second person injured by a bison this year, and it comes after Yellowstone reported last month as the busiest month of May EVER on record.  ​Two Campers Found Dead on Isolated Isle Royale National Park​ There’s quite the mystery up in the middle of ake Siperior surrounding two campers were found dead at Michigan's Isle Royale National Park. The bodies were found at South Lake Desor campground, and the NPS is not providing any details about the cause of death on the remote island park, which has wolves and moose. Some suspect foul play is involved, however, as the FBI was called in. Others speculate it was a murder suicide. But why the unusual secrecy?  Almost a week after the bodies were found, the government isn't saying a thing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week on the RV podcast. We introduce you to our friend Tom McAllister, who is an avid

0:06.7

RVer with a profitable hobby. He flips RVs, and you'll learn how he does it, and tour his

0:13.8

latest. Plus, the RV News of the Week, the social media buzz, your RV questions, and Mike and Jen's RV Storytime.

0:23.1

Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride,

0:28.4

Jennifer. We're delighted to have you with us, and we're just back from our summer rally for

0:34.5

members of RV Community.com. We were up in northwestern Michigan, just a

0:40.4

beautiful part of North America. And it's sad to say goodbye to everybody, but we have a fall

0:46.6

rally coming up in Texas, October 14th through the 18th. So we'll see everybody if we don't

0:52.6

see them on the road. Now it's time for the RV news of the

0:55.4

week, and this shouldn't come as a big surprise, but Indiana's governor is praising the end of the

1:00.6

Biden administration's Clean Air Act waiver that gave California the ability to force new sales

1:07.3

of heavy-duty vehicles, like trucks and RVs, to be zero-emission this year.

1:12.5

Many in the RV industry felt this would effectively ban the sale of new motorhomes

1:17.3

in California and other states that follow their standards.

1:21.4

With Indiana producing 90% of America's RVs, the Hoosier State had much its state had it remained in place.

1:29.7

Just because you don't see a cop in Colorado, it doesn't mean that you can't be ticketed.

1:35.3

The Colorado Department of Transportation recently installed its first photo radar cameras,

1:41.1

which will use to ticket those who speed in high-risk work zones.

1:46.6

The camera snaps a picture of a vehicle's license at one place and again at a second place.

1:51.4

Then they have some computer technology that analyzes whether the person is speeding.

1:56.7

If you're going more than 10 miles an hour above the designated speed, a speeding ticket will be issued.

2:03.1

Program starts on Highway 119 near Boulder. Look out. There are electronic smokies out there.

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