This week on the RV Podcast: * There's more confusion over the so-called Motorhome Ban: The California Air Resources Board now denies there is a ban coming in 2025. The RV industry still insists there is. * RVers are urgently needed in North Carolina…to help those displaced by the hurricane to learn about their temporary RV housing. * In our RV Conversation of the Week: 7 Red flags about bad camping neighbors that may make you want to leave a campground. * All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode #524 of the RV Podcast. 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. Before we get to the confusion over the so-called California Motorhome ban, I want to share this email requesting help from RVers to those still homeless from this fall’s flooding in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene: “We are having safe housing problems for hundreds of families in the area of the Southern Appalachians after the historical damages from hurricane Helene.  We are helping people find temporary housing and RVs that are being donated from all over the country.  We are desperately in need of people who understand RVs and all of the different things someone needs to know when they first move into one. Especially winter living and propane safety and maintenance.  Because these units are being donated we do not have people who always understand even the very basics about the campers they are picking up.  My goal in sharing this with you today is asking if there would be a way that we could ask for volunteers within the RV Lifestyle Community who might be close enough to be of assistance to hundreds of families in this difficult situation.” Thank You - Janet Hensley If you are able to help, you can contact her directly at themissjanet@gmail.com . Email from the California Air Resources Board Now, let's get to the follow-up over the controversial issue of what is being called the California Motorhome Ban.  We’ve been extensively reporting on this for the past several weeks, and this week, I want to share an email I received from the California Air Resources Board. Basically, they say there is no “ban” that prohibits the sale of diesel RVs in California. In fact, the spokesperson says “False claims asserting otherwise are outright lies.” But it’s all semantics. The email reads like bureaucratic gobblegook and uses a lot of words and regulatory language to basically say manufacturers must meet all the requirements of the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule. If they don’t meet those requirements, which involve meeting zero emission benchmarks for having zero emission vehicles, then they can’t sell. That, at least according to RV dealers, suppliers, manufacturers and the RV Industry Association - indeed is, for all practical purposes… a ban. The RV Industry Assessment Here’s the industry assessment: “In 2025, California's Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation, aimed at promoting zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs),