- Dicor TPO RV Flooring Experiment
- Dicor Corporation demonstrates a stronger composite wall panel
- Campground Host Lives the Good Life
- RVer talks about Damage to her RV and the Campground
- Watch the making of a Pleasureway Class B Motorhome
- Fifth Wheel RV Versus Low Railroad Overpass
- Australian Goes Off Roading With a Travel Trailer
- Motorhome Burns at Flying J Fuel Pump
- How one RVer made his own tiny travel trailer
- Watch Drew Barrymore talk about her RV vacation experience
- WiFi WPS security vulnerability found, major router makers affected
- Belkin Wi-Fi Range Extender Works Well
- HughesNet Will Decommission Horizon 2 Satellite
- Some Impressions of HP’s Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse
- RV Park & Campground Wi-Fi Pushed to the Limits
- Free Wi-Fi in all US Taco Bells by 2015
- Verizon Plans Wi-Fi “Hot Zones” To Ease Burden on Mobile Network
- WiFi Comes to Campgrounds in Ontario
- RVers want WiFi at campsites
- HP makes first WiFi mouse, no USB dongle required
Archive for September, 2007
>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee,WI,USA
Just as baby boomers gear up for retirement, their plans of buying bigger, more expensive motor homes and travel trailers have been slowed by interest rates and nervousness about the economy.
Motor home sales fell between 8% and 12% late this summer compared with the same period in 2006, according to a new report from analyst Craig Kennison with Robert W. Baird & Co.
Travel-trailer sales improved, up 5% to 8%, as consumers showed a preference for smaller, less expensive units.
Baird researchers surveyed 161 motor home and travel trailer dealers for their views on the current marketplace and 2008. One of the top concerns was tighter consumer financing.
Motor home and travel trailer sales are strongest early in an economic growth cycle when interest rates are low and consumer confidence is improving. Sales languish when the cost of borrowing money rises and the economy sputters.
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RV Education 101 has bundled it’s instructional DVDs into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVDs (3 hours of information) that help RVers understand how an RV works, and how to maintain and use their RV. There are DVD sets for motorized or towable units.
>Nova News Now – New Minas,Nova Scotia,Canada
A church leader from Alabama was fined in provincial court Thursday after failing to declare that he was traveling with a gun when he and his wife rolled off the Cat ferry in Yarmouth in their motor home on Tuesday.
The gun that border agents found inside the American tourist’s motorhome was a .357-calibre Magnum handgun. It was located inside an overhead compartment.
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>Dan Hylle knows firsthand the enjoyment that comes from living the recreation-vehicle lifestyle.
Hylle also knows the smells, gnats and frustrations that sometimes come along for the ride.
So when he came across an opportunity to offer a service to clean RV holding tanks, he grabbed it and started All Pro Water-Flow Central Florida.
The business, a partnership-cooperative with Colorado Springs-based inventor Preston Hall, cleans RV and boat holding tanks with a high-pressure water system.
After dealing with the same problem, Hall, the Colorado inventor, decided to take the tools he used in his 35 years as a plumber to his holding tanks.
He found the buildup with a fiber-optic camera, then used a high-pressure water hose, spraying at 1,500 to 6,000 pounds per square inch, to blast it away.
“I’ve never gotten as excited about an business opportunity in my life,” Hylle said.
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