Trying to Navigate the Massive RV Industry Tariff Confusion

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on the RV Podcast: What effect are tariffs having on the RV Industry? In our conversation of the week, we’ll hear straight talk from an industry straight-shooter about the massive RV tariff confusion With no warning, a Camping World outlet in Michigan has abruptly shut down, causing massive confusion to the blindsided employees and those whose RVs were awaiting service. When do you clean your RV? Before you leave the campground or after you arrive home? We’ll share some insight from 600 real RVers who answered the question on our social media platform. All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 563 of the RV Podcast

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0:00.0	This week on the RV podcast. What effect are tariffs having on the RV industry? In our
0:06.7	conversation of the week, we're going to hear straight talk from an industry straight shooter.
0:10.8	With no warning, a camping world outlet in Michigan has abruptly shut down, causing massive
0:17.4	confusion to the blindsided employees and those whose RVs were awaiting service.
0:24.1	When do you clean your RV before you leave the campground or after you arrive home?
0:29.4	We'll share some insight from 600 real RVers who answered the question on our social media platform.
0:35.8	All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in episode 563 of the
0:42.2	RV podcast.
0:44.0	Hello everybody.
0:44.9	I'm Mike Wendland and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer.
0:49.7	Hello, my dear.
0:50.5	Hello, Mike.
0:51.4	We are coming to you from our brand new Brinkley Z-3100 fifth wheel.
1:00.1	And we realized we caught some of you by surprise to find us in this in our Saturday video
1:07.0	that we released on YouTube.
1:09.0	And that's kind of our fault.
1:10.4	We thought we had talked it over a
1:11.9	whole lot and we had, but we had done so in live streams with our RV community.com, and we
1:18.0	realize not all of you are members of that community. So by way of explanation, besides the
1:24.2	Saturday video, this came about really quick. We got it.
1:30.1	Like, this all happened within about three weeks.
1:32.1	Yes, it happened really quickly.
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