Skilled RV workers.

3oaks wrote:

jplante4 wrote:
There's a limit to the size of the market for high end campers and motor homes. That limit is set by the number of people who can afford it. In order to grow your business, you need to stop catering only to the well-to-do and produce a product that can be obtained by middle class consumers, who have a wide range of choices on what to do with their disposable income. While Thurston Howell III will nickel and dime you over quality, penny wise consumers are only worried about price and bang for the buck. This explains the current state of the airline industry, and the same complaints are happening there. People pick flights by price only, then complain about the lack of leg room.

Manufacturers have no choice but to cut corners. They can't cut energy costs, taxes or cost of some materials (everyone pays the same for a Freightliner chassis). The only way to cut employee costs is to let people go, and when you do that you cut capacity, making things worse. Quality of material and craftsmanship are easy things to cut. It would happen in the airline industry if the FAA hadn't set at least minimum certification standards for airplanes.

If the quality is that bad, consumers should spent their recreational dollar on other things or the higher quality RVs. The makers of the junk will go away.

I disagree with most of your statements. What you offer is excuses to continue sub-par RV manufacturing. Everyone is not as affluent as you and cannot afford to purchase the best of everything. Airline transportation or RVs.

What is lacking in the RV industry is foreign competition. When the U.S. auto manufactures built us junk in the '70s, foreign competitors stepped in with better quality vehicles forcing our own U.S. manufactures to change their ways in a hurry.

I have no idea how you inferred from my post that I'm affluent. I'm driving a 20 year old bus around that I do most of the work on myself. It is however a high quality motor home and not some piece of junk paper bag bus you see at Camping World. And there in lies the problem. You see it here all the time.

"I want a new motor home/camper because I'm too spoiled/stupid to deal with something that someone else has already had".

Well then, if you buy a cheap piece of ****, you get what you deserve. Don't complain about quality if you paid bottom dollar for your rig.


And I had a late 60's Toyota. It was a piece of do-do.