RV shipments on the rise

Copperhead wrote:
Well, 1979 was at the tail end of the Carter administration and we went into a major economic slump. Anyone remember those double digit mortgage rates? One paid a major premium for credit.

Yes and I remember you could get 10+% on a saving account!

Ralph Cramden wrote:

jplante4 wrote:
Well, half of those 539k RVs will be used on July 4th, 2 weeks in August and Labor Day weekend then put away. Avoid commercial FHU parks during the those times and you won't have a problem.

That will last for 2 years (or until HGTV and the Travel Channel define the next "hot" trend) and then 200,000 lightly used RVs will hit RVT and RVTrader.

Exactly jplante.............


Woopdeedoo, The official number for 17 which happens to be 504,600 according to the entity that trumps this sales boom up, the RV INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (RVIA), happens to be found HERE
The 539K number is sales but you cant sell a unit that was not made. Shipments from manufacturer to dealer is the real number. The RVIA by the way is the fine folks who hand out those silver oval shaped stickers. The ones that confirm your RV is oozing with quality construction LOL

They tout shipments increased in 2017 17.2% woooo hooooo. They increased 24.6 percent in 1992 and 21% in 2002 so what. What about 1983? when they increased 39.8%?

Look at it this way.

389,000 RV's shipped in 1978, US population 222 million, 1 RV shipped for every 570 people.
504,600 RV's shipped in 2017, US population 326 million, 1 RV shipped for every 646 people.

Looks like a decline.

Another statistic........... RV ownership as in registered RV's remains at a constant number right around 9 million in the US and has for years no matter how many pieces of junk leave Indiana.

Touting a sales boom is good for sales and even greater for attracting investors when the entire Industry is controlled by two HOLDING COMPANIES that control 85% of market share. Forest River (Berkshire Hathaway) and Thor Industries.

Sooner or later, probably sooner, the entire house of cards will come crashing down. look at the chart in the link above at 1979, 1980,85,89,08,09 etc.

Who cares how many RV's per person. It's RV's per camping spot that matters. The more sold the more used ones on the market. The more used ones on the market the less used ones are worth. Not that used are worth much anyway.

Well, 1979 was at the tail end of the Carter administration and we went into a major economic slump. Anyone remember those double digit mortgage rates? One paid a major premium for credit.

jplante4 wrote:
Well, half of those 539k RVs will be used on July 4th, 2 weeks in August and Labor Day weekend then put away. Avoid commercial FHU parks during the those times and you won't have a problem.

That will last for 2 years (or until HGTV and the Travel Channel define the next "hot" trend) and then 200,000 lightly used RVs will hit RVT and RVTrader.

Exactly jplante.............


Woopdeedoo, The official number for 17 which happens to be 504,600 according to the entity that trumps this sales boom up, the RV INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (RVIA), happens to be found HERE
The 539K number is sales but you cant sell a unit that was not made. Shipments from manufacturer to dealer is the real number. The RVIA by the way is the fine folks who hand out those silver oval shaped stickers. The ones that confirm your RV is oozing with quality construction LOL

They tout shipments increased in 2017 17.2% woooo hooooo. They increased 24.6 percent in 1992 and 21% in 2002 so what. What about 1983? when they increased 39.8%?

Look at it this way.

389,000 RV's shipped in 1978, US population 222 million, 1 RV shipped for every 570 people.
504,600 RV's shipped in 2017, US population 326 million, 1 RV shipped for every 646 people.

Looks like a decline.

Another statistic........... RV ownership as in registered RV's remains at a constant number right around 9 million in the US and has for years no matter how many pieces of junk leave Indiana.

Touting a sales boom is good for sales and even greater for attracting investors when the entire Industry is controlled by two HOLDING COMPANIES that control 85% of market share. Forest River (Berkshire Hathaway) and Thor Industries.

Sooner or later, probably sooner, the entire house of cards will come crashing down. look at the chart in the link above at 1979, 1980,85,89,08,09 etc.

Well, half of those 539k RVs will be used on July 4th, 2 weeks in August and Labor Day weekend then put away. Avoid commercial FHU parks during the those times and you won't have a problem.

That will last for 2 years (or until HGTV and the Travel Channel define the next "hot" trend) and then 200,000 lightly used RVs will hit RVT and RVTrader.

I was wondering if the new tax code that doesn't allow interest deduction on TT's as a second home like in the past would have a negative affect on sales. Must not.

This has been happening for at least 3 or 4 years.
Combination of low fuel prices and more baby boomers retiring.

I’ll try that road, NMDriver. Should be fun.

:) I have 4 acres with 2 full and several water/electric only RV spots. There is also plenty of level ground for storage, BUT the road to the property would scare off any potential renter.

Too bad they're aren't making campsites as fast.