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ARVC Announces Emergency Webinars with Industry Experts
The National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) has announced a series of interactive webinars focused on helping RV…
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RV Distribution Center Approved by Officials
County officials in Goshen, Ind., approved a plan for an RV distribution center despite concerns with the first impression it…
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Dometic Workers Concerned About Severance
With their jobs about to end as Dometic shuts down its LaGrange, Ind., plant, members of UAW Local 871 said…
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Diesel Equipment Sells Wiper Technologies Division
Diesel Equipment Co., located in Greensboro, N.C., has sold its Wiper Technologies division to Global Products, an Elkhart, Ind.-based company.…
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25th Annual RV SuperSaver Show Canceled
The 25th Annual RV SuperSaver Show has been canceled due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus at large…
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FMCA Cancels Arizona Rally
The Family Motor Coach Association, has canceled its 101st International Rally and RV Expo, scheduled for later this month in…
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TACO Reschedules Spring Meeting to Aug. 18
The Texas Association of Campground Owners (TACO) has rescheduled its annual Spring Meeting and Tradeshow to Aug. 18-19 as a…
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10 Tips for Business Owners Impacted by a Pandemic
COVID-19 has brought business almost to a halt, and we are still in shock about how quickly life has changed.…
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Northwood, Outdoors RV Temporarily Close Plants
La Grande, Ore.-based RV manufacturers, Northwood and Outdoors RV are temporarily closing down their manufacturing facilities. The shutdowns are a…
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THOR Hires Gunpowder for Marketing
THOR Industries has chosen Wisconsin-based PR shop Gunpowder as its North American AOR. This story by Thomas Moore originally appeared…
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Keystone RV Unveils New Corporate Identity
Keystone RV recently unveiled an updated corporate identity and call-to-arms. “For so many of our owners, RVing fundamentally changed their…
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RVDA of Canada Works with Officials on Fiscal Stimulus
The RV Dealers Association of Canada announced that it is in constant contact with federal and provincial officials who are…
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Trends: Camping Numbers Increasing
As shutdowns, cutbacks and other coronavirus-related troubles lead legions of Americans to stay away from hotels and airports, numbers are…
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Indiana Governor Issues Restrictions Following State’s First COVID-19 Death
As Indiana announces the first death from the novel coronavirus in the state, Gov. Eric Holcomb has detailed additional efforts by…
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RVDA to Provide Members Info on Families First Coronavirus Response Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act last week. This economic stimulus plan to address the impact…
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Marcus Lemonis Issues Statement on COVID-19
Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis has issued the following letter regarding COVID-19 and its effects on the company: To Our…
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Webinars to Cover Safety Habits, Training Content
The Mike Molino RV Learning Center and strategic partner KPA will host two free webinars in March. The first webinar is…
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Horizon Global Reports Mixed Financial Results
Horizon Global has reported fourth quarter and full-year financial results for 2019. Net sales for the full year were $690…
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VIDEO: Coachmen Unveils Class A Gas Line
Coachmen recently introduced a new Class A gas line, the Encore, designed to offer customers a proposition and product amenities…
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Washington Passes RV Length Bill
The RV Industry Association has reported that a bill to solve an RV length issue in Washington was recently passed…
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NHTSA: Daimler to Recall 8,595 Sprinter Units
Daimler Vans USA is recalling certain 2019 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Freightliner Sprinter vehicles. The screws that secure the intermediate bearing…
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Patrick Completes Acquisition of Maple City Woodworking Corp.
Patrick Industries has completed the acquisition of Goshen, Ind.-based Maple City Woodworking Corp., a manufacturer of hardwood cabinet doors and fascia for…
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Norco Industries Pays IOSHA Fines
Elkhart RV parts maker, Norco Industries, has agreed to a nearly $10,000 penalty after a state safety inspection found serious…
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Fun Town RV Transitions Party from Stadium
Fun Town RV has relocated its DFW RV Party from the AT&T Stadium in Texas to all Fun Town RV…
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Arizona ARVC Cancels Its Spring Convention
The Arizona Association of Parks and Campgrounds has cancelled its spring convention due to rising coronavirus concerns. “We took a…
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Forest River Sued by Former Employees
Several former employees of Forest River have filed lawsuits in recent months, for claims including sexual harassment and racial discrimination.…
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RVWA Hires Executive Director Sandy Ellingson
One year after the official launch of the RV Women’s Alliance (RVWA), the group has hired its first executive director,…
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Winnebago Names ‘Flying W Dealer Excellence Award’ Winners
Winnebago has announced the winners of the 2020 Flying W Dealer Excellence Award at the “Bound Together” dealer meeting in…
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Campers Inn RV Opens Third S.C. Dealership
Campers Inn RV has opened a third dealership in South Carolina, with the addition of Campers Inn RV of Conway.…
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SBA Offers $2M in Disaster Assistance Loans
The Small Business Administration is offering designated states and territories low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to small businesses…
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Family RV Group Names Ginnan President
Family RV Group has announced the promotion of Robert Ginnan to president, in addition to his current role as CFO.…
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Priority One Launches New, Secure Portal
Priority One Financial Services has launched its new, secure, digital customer portal. Priority One stated it recognizes the necessity for…
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RVIA President Responds to Coronavirus’s Effect on Industry
RV Industry Association President Craig Kirby recently sent out a letter to members of the industry, regarding the novel coronavirus’s…
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Duo Form Relaunches Plastic Cleaner
Duo Form has relaunched its RV kitchen and bath plastic cleaner called DUO PURE. Now available on Amazon and direct…
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CampCalNOW Reschedules Summit to Avoid Coronavirus Impact
CampCalNOW RV Park and Campground Alliance has rescheduled its spring summit to Sept. 29-30 to maximize attendance and avoid coronavirus…
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Flint RV & Camping Show Begins March 20
The Flint RV & Camping Show will take place March 20-22 in Flint, Mich., at the Dort Federal Credit Union…
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Gallery: Winnebago Goes to the Desert
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Winnebago dealers gathered for the manufacturer’s annual dealer days at the JW Marriott Resort in Palm…
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Spartan Motors Sales Increase 32% for 2019
Spartan Motors has reported operating results for the fourth quarter and full-year periods ending Dec. 31, 2019, showing that sales increased $186…
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NRVTA Announces New Certification Plan
The National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) has announced a change to its certification program, which breaks away from the certification…
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Winnebago, Volta Deliver 10% Energy Storage Increase to Select Class B’s
Winnebago and Volta Power Systems have announced a 10-percent energy capacity increase for the Pure3 Advanced Energy System on select…
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RVIA Board Approves Fifth Wheel Dimensions
The RV Industry Association’s board of directors met last week to discuss issues, challenges and opportunities facing the RV industry. The…
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Xantrex Launches Bluetooth Remote Panel
Xantrex has released a new Bluetooth remote panel for its Freedom X inverters and Freedom XC inverter/chargers. This new Bluetooth…
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Customer Experience Expert to Keynote at RVDA Expo
Author and business consultant Jay Baer will present “Coveted Customer Experience: How to Exceed Ever-Escalating Expectations,” during the opening general…
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Dometic Unveils Outdoor Beverage Centers
Dometic has entered the residential market with a new outdoor product range. The first product is the Dometic MoBar series…
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Indiana to Establish Outdoor Rec Office
The Indiana House of Representatives passed a resolution last week urging the creation of a state outdoor office of recreational development. This…
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Deadline for HARVEST Scholarship Nears
The Tim DeWitt HARVEST Education Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2020 to 2021 academic year. To be…
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Searer: Reservations for HoF Induction Dinner Going Fast
Reservations for the RV/MH Hall of Fame’s Annual Induction Dinner are pouring in, according to Darryl Searer, president of the…
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Heartland RV Applies for STOR-MOR Patent
Heartland RV announced it has a pending patent application for its new STOR-MOR Storage system, which maximizes front-end storage space,…
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Woman Arrested for Allegedly Stealing RVs
A Sugar Grove, Va., woman was arrested last week after investigators said she stole two RVs from A&L RV in…
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RVIA to Hold D.C.-related Webinar
The RV Industry Association will hold a webinar Thursday, March 12, about key issues most important to RV manufacturers, suppliers,…
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Mark Wahlberg Eyes Car Dealership, RV Park Planned
Plans are underway for actor Mark Wahlberg to land another car dealership in Columbus, Ohio. This story by Beth Burger…
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Lake Rudolph RV Resort Invests $2M
Lake Rudolph Campground & RV Resort in Santa Claus, Ind., has made about $2 million in additions and improvements for…
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Accudraft Hires Lowder as Senior VP
Accudraft, a manufacturer of paint booths for finishing production, has appointed Brandon Lowder to the newly created position of senior vice president…
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WORX Releases Portable Vacuum
WORX recently released a 20-volt power share portable vacuum, a lightweight solution to a wide range of dry spills and…
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Community: New Horizons RV Builds Custom Fifth Wheel for Medical Company
When HealthCore’s new mobile clinic rolls into underserved communities, it always brings a lot of smiles – but the first…
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Flow-Rite Fills New Marketing, Design Staff Positions
Flow-Rite, a manufacturer of injection-molded fluid control products for a wide range of industries, has fortified its marketing efforts by…
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Fixed-Ops Certification Celebrated This Week
Beginning last Sunday, and running through Saturday, March 14, is RV Fixed Operations Professional Certification Week, as designated by the…
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Campers Inn Acquires Two More Locations
Don Littlefield, principal of the Boat-N-RV family of superstores and the Factory Direct Marine & RV organization (Boat-N-RV) has sold…
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Following Fire, RV Country Opens New Service Center
Fresno, Calif.-based RV Country, an RV dealer group in the West, has opened a new state-of-the-art service center to replace a…
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Trends: Coronavirus Drives Families Toward RV Parks
South Florida resorts are at high occupancy and north Florida resorts are gearing up to welcome RVers from all over…
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Outdoorsy Makes Forbes’ ‘Best Startup’ List
Outdoorsy has been named one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020 by Forbes Media, in partnership with leading statistics…
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Trends: RV, Boats Stocks Decline
Winnebago, Malibu Boats, MasterCraft Boat Holdings Inc., MarineMax, Brunswick Corp., Thor Industries, and Patrick Industries all posted declines last week, some of them double-digit. Harley-Davidson and Polaris…
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Canadian Vinyl Upholstery Supplier Named ‘Best Managed’
Morbern, manufacturer of vinyl upholstery for the marine, automotive, RV and commercial interiors markets, has been named as one of…
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Sound Storm Labs Releases Four Amplifiers
Sound Storm Laboratories, a division of BOSS International Group, has launched four new amplifiers in its Charge Series. The Charge…
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Luxury RV Resort Planned for 2021
Chula Vista plans to open a new luxury RV resort called Costa Vista in San Diego. Costa Vista is set…
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CURT Enters Dinghy Towing Market
CURT has entered the dinghy towing market with a new non-binding tow bar, the Rambler, as well as a complete line…
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THOR Reports Net Sales of $2B, Monitors Coronavirus
THOR Industries has announced results for the second quarter of fiscal 2020, which ended Jan. 31, showing net sales were…
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nuCamp Unveils Redesigned Cirrus Truck Camper
nuCamp recently announced the launch of the redesigned Cirrus 820 Truck Camper. The new 820 has component updates, additional features…
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Trends: Industry ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Coronavirus
The RV Industry Association reported that shipments in January reached 33,000 units, a 29 percent jump from the 25,500 units…
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NHTSA: Recalls Made for Keystone, Jayco, and Forest River
Keystone RV is recalling certain 2020 Hideout, Springdale, and Crossroads Zinger trailers. The spare tire carrier U-bolts may fail allowing…
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RVDA Elects New Secretary and Director
The RV Dealers Association’s board of directors elected Ryan Horsey of Parkview RV Center, Smyrna, Del., as secretary and Larry…
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Fun Town Hosts 2nd RV Party at AT&T Stadium
Fun Town RV will host the 2nd annual RV Party from March 13-15 inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Last year’s…
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Lazydays RV Appoints New CMO
Lazydays has hired Tom Peterson as its chief marketing officer. Peterson joins Lazydays from Youfit Health Clubs, where he was CMO.…
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Jaeger-Unitek Appoints Key Leaders
Jaeger-Unitek Sealing Solutions has made two key leadership appointments with Christie Wester being named as CFO and Tricia Sena being…
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ARVC’s National School Sees Record Attendance
The National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) has reported record attendance at the National School of RV Park…
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Community: Rollin’ On TV, Forest River Team Up to Support Care Camps
Rollin’ On TV and Forest River are teaming up with Care Camps, to help children with cancer and their families by raising funds enabling…
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RV Industry Secures Satellite Win
Congress has permanently reauthorized the Section 119 exemption for RVs that would have otherwise caused millions of RV owners to…
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NTP-STAG Adds Jasco Products
NTP-STAG has added Jasco Products, a leader in home electronics, to its electrical, electronics, and lighting category. Established in 1975,…
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VIDEO: Bandits Steal Two RVs from Skaggs RV
Skaggs RV in Elizabethtown, Ky., recently had two 2020 Keystone Hideouts stolen. The trucks used in the theft are linked to…
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RVIA Releases ‘RVs Move America Week’ Schedule
The RV Industry Association has announced that the annual RVs Move America Week event begins with two days of committee…
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Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Northeast Dealer Consultants
J. Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of Brown & Brown, and Phil and Pamela Bruno, the owners of Northeast Dealer…
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Hugelmeyer: NMMA Boat Shows to Continue
National Marine Manufacturer’s Association President Frank Hugelmeyer recently issued a memo to all members of the association regarding the coronavirus.…
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CTEK Charging Solutions Launches on Amazon
CTEK, a global brand in the care and maintenance of vehicle batteries, recently launched its onboard charging solutions for RVers…
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Trends: U.S. Adds 273,000 Jobs in February
In February, the U.S. added 273,000 new jobs for the second month in a row, but the threat to the…
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RVTI Board Sets Direction for 2020, Focuses on Partnerships
Last week, the RV Technical Institute’s board of directors met to set the direction and priorities for the Institute in…
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Rec Leaders Applaud Senate Efforts to Fix Maintenance Backlog
Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR) members, including the RV Industry Association, recently praised the Senate for introducing a bipartisan bill, the…
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REV Group Sees 2.6% Increase in First Quarter
REV Group has reported results for the three months ended Jan. 31, showing first quarter net sales of $532.1 million compared to $518.7…
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ProLite Names Dealer of the Year
Canadian RV OEM Roulottes ProLite presented Longhaul Trailer Sales with the “Dealer of the Year” award for 2019 during the…
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Coronavirus Slows U.S. Manufacturing
U.S. manufacturing grew at a slower-than-expected pace last month, reflecting concerns about supply chain disruptions as the coronavirus spreads. This…
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Horizon Global Expands Board, Adds Oler
Horizon Global Corp.’s board of directors has increased the size of the board from eight to nine directors, and appointed…
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Furrion Launches Chef Collection with Midnight Glass Finish
Furrion recently introduced the Midnight Glass RV Chef Collection. The full assortment features three refrigerator options, an induction cooktop, range…
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WFCO to Offer Lithium-Ion Solution Options
Power supplier, WFCO, recently introduced lithium-ion solution options for both OEMs and the aftermarket. The following products are lithium-ion compatible:…
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NATM Trade Show Features 223 Exhibitors
The National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) hosted its 32nd annual Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas on Feb.…
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Indiana KOA Adds Lazy River, Deluxe Cabins
The Angola/Hogback Lake KOA Holiday in Indiana will open for the season on March 31. Construction of the new Lazy…
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Walorski Expresses Concern on Tariffs
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expressing concerns over the recent expansion…
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TPMS Now Standard for Riverstone, Cedar Creek
Forest River’s Riverstone and Cedar Creek have announced factory-installed tire pressure management systems (TPMS) on new units built beginning this…
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Canada Made Labor Watchdog with New NAFTA Deal
Late changes made to the new North American trade pact place Canada into the role of an “honest broker” to…
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WhereSafe GPS Consumer Safety Service Available to RV Dealers
WhereSafe, a family safety and asset protection service for consumers, has announced its formal consumer launch. The service is being…
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Fluoramics to Introduce New Products
Fluoramics will introduce three new products at the NACE Corrosion Conference & Expo from March 15-19 at the George R.…
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Spartan Motors’ Royal Truck Body Displays at Indianapolis Show
Royal Truck Body, a go-to-market brand of Spartan Motors, will display at the Work Truck Show (NTEA) in Indianapolis from March 3-6, for the…
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