No shortage of RVs

Good to hear new models are at the dealers.

I am in VA for work and there are 3 RV dealers around the corner from each other… A Camping World, General RV, and an Airstream dealer….

ALL 3 are PACKED with new equipment , perhaps the CW a bit more than the other 2..

The road that goes between the stores is about 1/4 mile long and that is lined on 1 side from end to end with new RV’s….

Wonder how long it's gonna take for cars and trucks to come back in line

Can't speculate on that, but the other day when driving to the VA clinic on I-75 in Florida, I passed four auto-haulers filled with new trucks and new cars. And that was in a mile or two of highway as I drove it. The haulers were tailing one another, middle of the afternoon.

I agree with you with what I see on dealer lots in northern California and Nevada. Cheers to the good folks.

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Except when it comes to truck campers. For some reason the lots are empty.

We recently checked out some driveables while camping with signs on them about the chip shortage so a lot of them were missing things like heated steering wheels, navigation, automatic sliding doors etc.. They said the price reflected that

That stretch of I-95 north of Richmond of which you speak has been full the whole time. Never a shortage there. I have mentioned that on here before.

It’s spring. That is the time of the year almost all dealerships want to load up on inventory. This holds true for not only RVs but boats, motorcycles, cars and trucks, ATVs, fishing gear, camping gear, pretty much every outdoor recreation item sans snowmobiles. The test comes in August and September . Are the lots full of soon to be past model year rigs or are they nearly empty like they were last year?

wapiticountry wrote:
It’s spring. That is the time of the year almost all dealerships want to load up on inventory.

I think the point is...they have been able to load up on inventory rather than units being sold and out the door as soon as they arrive.

I suspect a lot of the "backlog" the manufacturers are hyping is filling inventory as opposed to actual sales.

Classic technique to help prop up prices. If people think there is still a shortage, they are less likely to drive a hard bargain but it's not sustainable if the lots are all full. Very quickly, dealers feel the cost of keeping inventory that's not selling.