Truck Camper VIN Weight vs Scale Weight

mkirsch wrote:

ardvark wrote:
I am not sure what I find more irritating, the fact we all just continue to accept this nonsense

I for one am quite curious to know what you would suggest we "do" about it. Not buy? Someone else will come along. They're not worried.

While the RV industry is big bucks, only a small percentage of the population own RVs, and only a small percentage of RV owners are concerned about build quality, weight, and accountability of RV manufacturers to their customers, and it's not getting better. Nothing is going to change. It is caveat emptor.

Respectfully disagree. Buyers do need to be mindful, no doubt about it, but how mindful? I have often seen it posted in forums that buyers just have to do diligent research, but how the heck do you research something when the manufacturers openly states they are not liable for anything they put in print? Why not just have a conversation with your dog about which unit to buy?

I also do not agree that buyers don't care about quality. I was an industry insider for years, wrote for both RV consumers and for the dealers, and consumers do care and dealers do know quality control is garbage.

So how about for starters we make a push for every buyer to weigh their rig and we post the weighs versus stickers and we tell manufacturers that is what we are going to start doing and we are going to rate manufacturers based on the validity of their stickers?

Sure it would take a bit of organizing, but one thing I learned about the industry is when someone actually calls them out on something and it happens to one, they all change.

So far we are just sitting and taking it. That seems crazy to me. Maybe I'm the only one.