RV News Brief | Masks in National Parks (again), Electric Truck Fraud, RV Dealerships Gobble Up Independents & more
RV Miles Podcast
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | MASSs are going to be required in national parks again, even for vaccinated people as the delta variant of COVID-19 |
| 0:06.7 | rips through the country. Wildfires continue to spread as well, pulling a blanket of smoke over much |
| 0:12.2 | North America. RV dealership chains are gobbling up independent dealers. We'll talk about what that |
| 0:17.6 | means for buyers. An electric truck manufacturer has been indicted for misleading investors |
| 0:23.0 | by making up virtually everything about the company's trucks and cobbling together fake prototypes |
| 0:28.7 | out of the parts of other vehicles. The Elkhart Indiana RV capital is making a big expansion |
| 0:34.7 | across the state's northern border into Michigan and a new campground coming to Louisiana is turning |
| 0:41.1 | heads. It's motto, bring your house and share your spouse. It's time for the latest in RV and camping news. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Jason Eperson and welcome to the RV Miles News Roundup where we provide you with all the latest |
| 0:53.9 | news and information about RVs, camping and road trip travel. New guidance from the CDC on |
| 1:01.3 | mask wearing will have masks again required indoors at many national park service facilities and |
| 1:07.9 | buildings operated by other federal land agencies across the country, even by people who are vaccinated. |
| 1:13.6 | Instead of a blanket mask requirement, the new guidance recommends masks in areas where transmission |
| 1:19.2 | rates are high and the White House has decided to make those recommendations requirements in federal |
| 1:25.0 | buildings. Since transmission rates change regularly, the areas where masks are required will too. |
| 1:31.1 | In Utah, for instance, four of the five national parks will require masks indoors. That includes |
| 1:37.1 | shuttle buses and campground restrooms. COVID cases have begun to climb in Utah in recent weeks, |
| 1:42.4 | due in part to the new highly contagious delta variant of the virus, as well as stalling vaccination |
| 1:48.8 | numbers. Travelers should also expect new state and local mask requirements in many of these high |
| 1:53.4 | transmission risk areas. Wildfires continue to rage across the west where according to the |
| 1:59.2 | National Interagency Fire Center, 83 large fires have burned over 1.7 million acres across |
| 2:05.1 | 13 states. Just recently, new large fires were reported in Idaho, Washington and Wyoming. |
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