When a Woman runs a RV Company

RoyBell wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:

RoyBell wrote:
The other factor is that other parts of the world don't need 30' trailers with multiple slides.

Says who? You?

Lots of people towing nice campers over there with non HD trucks - how can that be? Feel free to chime in here Robert.

Heck the bottom of the line Cell Caravan linked blows my cr@ppy Coleman out of the water - which BTW something new breaks every time I use it!

I still have a good time don't get me wrong, but import one of those, and my unit goes on Craigslist.

Says the American mentality that "bigger is better". Every American now needs a 4000 square foot house for a family of 3. The largest SUV they can buy and the largest camper they can buy. European roads are smaller and their trucks not as robust. Their HD trucks are more for commercial use than personal use and designed as such (small cabs, forward design). I imagine their hot market are Class B campers.

In fact, I just googled "european travel trailer" and the majority of the images appear to be sub 30' trailers, in the 25' range. Do the same for American/USA and you get a slew of 30'+ trailers.

Not sure why this comment makes you so angry but Americans are greedy and want the biggest everything. We also have the roads/trucks for big ass campers though so it isn't as big a deal.

Without getting too off subject , large Caravans/Travel Trailers would be a nightmare in Europe, especially Southern Europe. Europeans use a lot of Class C Motorhomes, max length 29ft. Travel Trailers are a lot rarer, Pickups Trucks are very rare. They use the Cab Chassis variants of Vans to tow a lot. This they do pretty effectively. HD Trucks and their varieties dominate European roads all Cabovers, narrow day Cabs, very much more so than the US. Europeans do like BIG, but that varies from country to country, eg Saw " McMansions" in Poland, 45ft Horse Toy Haulers/ Class A's in other countries