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 DVD’s into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVD’s (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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