I'm Jason Epperson. This is RV Miles and it's time for this week's RV and camping news roundup.

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with the code RV Miles 10X. While motorhome values dropped 7% between July and August on the

wholesale market, according to the analyst at Blackbook, that's the first dip in motorhome

values since February, but Togo bulls increased in value in August by under 1%, the smallest gain

since last November. But if you think that means the market for RVs is starting to loosen up,

take a look at Thor Industries' fiscal year and earnings report released on Tuesday.

A record $12.3 billion in sales and over 300,000 units sold. Back in December,

Thor had a $9 billion backlog of orders yet to be built. And one would think if sales were

dying down they'd have hacked away at that a bit. Nope. The current backlog for the world's biggest

RV manufacturer has almost doubled in 10 months to about $17 billion. People are buying more and more

RVs in 2021. The industry generally ships around 500,000 units and expects to ship over 575,000

next year in 2022. On Monday, boondockers welcome will be launching a new website that will be the

first step towards integration with harvest hosts since being purchased by them back in June.

The new website will allow members to search across both boondockers welcome locations and harvest

host locations at the same time. The new site will also feature search by route functionality,

customizable trip boards, redesign member and host profiles, and integrated sign-on for folks

with both memberships. Jacob, long a maker of all types of RVs except class B's,

recently entered the camper van market with the SWIFT which features two floor plans on a

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