The high cost of finding a pickup truck to tow an RV

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve tried to find a heavy-duty pickup truck to tow an RV you no doubt have experienced severe sticker shock. But the situation has become so alarming that I’d call it scandalous. Too many truck dealerships are adding on bogus charges way above MSRP. In fact, the situation has become so outrageous that auto manufacturers have been warning their dealers to stop the practice because they are damaging their brands! That’s one of the topics we talk about in great detail in this week’s episode 391 of the RV Podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the RV podcast, Episode 391.
0:05.0	And this week, a scandal that we've uncovered,
0:09.0	as we've shopped for a truck to haul our new fifth wheeler,
0:12.0	we're talking about overpriced pickup trucks used to haul RVs.
0:18.0	Welcome, fellow travelers. It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.
0:23.5	Answering your questions.
0:25.0	Sharing tips.
0:26.0	Suggesting great trips and off the beaten path adventures.
0:29.2	And always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about with great
0:34.2	interviews and inside industry information.
0:37.1	Here's your host, award-winning
0:38.6	journalists, Mike and Jennifer Wendland. Hi everybody, I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my
0:45.3	lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer. Hello, Michael. Hello, hello. And this
0:51.6	week, we are going to talk about a scandal that we have experienced firsthand as we've been shopping for a pickup truck to tow the fifth wheel that we're about to get.
1:04.0	And this has to do with overpriced pickup trucks, price gouging, many say, outright profite profiteering at the expense of
1:14.4	people who are in need of a truck for their RV lifestyle because trucks are in short-supplied
1:21.3	dealers are jacking up prices way above MSRP. The industry, the manufacturers, they're not happy about it, but the dealers
1:31.5	are doing as they please, making money while they can. We're going to talk about that coming up
1:35.8	at the other section of the podcast right after we cover a few items here, including the fact
1:42.9	that, well, as we come to you this time from cloudy Florida today, it's a cloudy day.
1:49.0	No sun today.
1:51.0	But we've been down here in Florida pretty much since January, and it's time to head north, and it's still cold up there in the Upper Midwest in the 40s it certainly is
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