RV Price Gouging, RV Recall Blitz, Aging National Park Infrastructure & How AI Can Plan RV Trips
RV Podcast - Stories From The Road
Mike Wendland
4.5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast delivers a hard-hitting reality check for RVers.:
- We break down a viral insider video from a top RV dealer CEO who openly calls out price gouging, overproduction, copycat designs, and why so many buyers end up upside down faster than they expect. If you are shopping, or even thinking about it, this one matters.
- We also cover an RV recall blitz affecting more than 18,000 RVs across multiple brands, including fire risks, fuel leaks, and labeling errors that should have never made it past quality control.
- Plus, a growing warning for RV travelers as aging water systems cripple access at Big Bend National Park and other popular National Park destinations.
- Our take on Love’s expanding RV hookups, convenient but noisy and pricey
- How AI is being used for RV Travel Planning
No spin, no fluff, just straight talk about the RV lifestyle. Listen to the Monday News Edition wherever you get your podcasts or at RVPodcast.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the news edition of the RV podcast. I'm Mike Wendland, |
| 0:06.4 | and it is the week of February 9th, 2026. And if you're new here, welcome aboard every Monday morning, |
| 0:13.8 | 6 a.m. We bring you the top RV news stories affecting all RVers and campers and the RV |
| 0:20.2 | industry. |
| 0:25.4 | And then on Wednesdays, we shift gears for our stories from the Road Edition, where we share interviews with interesting people, |
| 0:27.5 | tips and tricks to make your RV life better, |
| 0:30.6 | answer your questions, and dive into destinations worth exploring. |
| 0:34.8 | You can catch us however you consume podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your |
| 0:39.9 | favorite podcast app. And we're also on YouTube if you prefer to watch and everything lives |
| 0:45.8 | at RV Podcast.com. That's our central hub where you'll find more than a decade of episodes, |
| 0:52.2 | blog reports, videos, and resources for the RV lifestyle. |
| 0:56.3 | So let's dive into this week's news. I've got five stories you need to know about. |
| 1:01.8 | First off, industry reality check. There is a video circulating right now that has some |
| 1:07.7 | top execs in the RV industry squirming a little bit and for good reason. |
| 1:12.8 | National Indoor RV Center's president and CEO Brett Davis has dropped an hour-plus long, |
| 1:19.1 | no-holes-barred breakdown of what's really going on behind the curtain in the RV business. |
| 1:25.0 | Now, fair warning, Brett's video is not light viewing. And so far, |
| 1:29.7 | though, that has pulled in more than 200,000 views and counting, which tells you something, |
| 1:36.4 | this struck a nerve. Davis does not sugarcoat much of anything. He flat out calls out price |
| 1:43.1 | gouging, overproduction, and an industry that, in his |
| 1:47.2 | words, has gotten lazy by copying itself instead of innovating. And this isn't some outsider |
| 1:54.1 | throwing rocks. This is a guy who runs one of the largest luxury RV dealer groups in the |
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