This year marks the 100th anniversary of the RV. To celebrate, this years RV rally held by the Good Sam club and other sponsors is expected to attract 4,500 RVs and 10,000 people from nearly every state.
According to TheRally.com, The Rally will be held July 22 – 25, 2010 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. A video on YouTube has more details.
Source: TheRally.com
RV Trader has announced that its online publication, RVTraderOnline.com, is now RVTrader.com.
RV Trader has been the industry’s leader in recreational vehicle classifieds for over two decades. In 1998 RV Trader began its online publication, RVTraderOnline.com. Despite having the term RV Trader trademarked, RVTrader.com was owned by a Canadian company. “The move to RVTrader.com from RVTraderOnline.com is an exciting one for us. In the past consumers went to RVTrader.com looking for the same company that publishes RV Trader magazine. Now they will find it!” said Tim Custer, RV Trader General Manager.
In order to provide the best consumer experience and results for its advertisers, the RVTrader.com URL will redirect to RVTraderOnline.com for an interim period. In 1st quarter 2010 RVTraderOnline.com led the industry in average monthly site traffic with 193% more than its closest competitor. “Our advertisers already receive great results, and several have received honors such as the Top 50 Dealership Award. With the move to RVTrader.com their businesses will be in front of even more qualified traffic that is already loyal to the RV Trader brand” stated Jerald Motil, RV Trader National Marketing Manager.
Recently RV Trader launched several online advertising and dealership management and analysis products. This includes RV clips, an online video advertising opportunity for RV dealers; Lead Manager, a lead response and management tool; and Business Intelligence Reports, providing analysis of dealers’ inventory in areas of pricing, make/model demand, and local market penetration. All of these products will be available at the new URL, RVTrader.com.
According to Omniture, in 2009 RVTraderOnline.com received over 7 million unique visitors, over 40 million individual RV ads were viewed, and it generated over 126 million pageviews. These results led the industry and even better results are expected with RVTrader.com.
Source: RV Trader
MaxxAir Vent Corporation’s home page features details on the Turbo/Maxx, an RV fan that provides all the benefits of a vent cover and a fan, even when it rains.
Photo Credit: MaxxAir Vent Corporation
Removing musty air, smoke and cooking odors, while preventing heat build-up, the Turbo/Maxx offers maximum ventilation with its 12″ diameter, 10-blade fan. The Turbo/Maxx features hinge-opening mounting brackets for easy access, cleaning and service. Simple to install, it attaches directly to an existing 14″ x 14″ standard roof vent, so there’s no need to remove the existing vent.
Source: MaxxAir Vent Corporation
We are still getting lots of great photos! Keep sending them! You can check out the latest on our Flickr slide show.
Judging starts May 31, so send us your photos now at rvblog@traderonline.com and win a Flip camcorder just in time for the camping season.
Continental Tire launched a new RV section on its commercial vehicle tire Web site at www.continental-truck.com.
“Recreational vehicle owners have raved to us for years about the low vibration, low maintenance and long durability of Continental tires. We decided to no longer keep our tires the ‘best kept secret’ in RVing – and to go ahead and put our product listings out on the Web for tire-savvy consumers,” said Clif Armstrong, director of marketing for commercial tires in the Americas.
The new RV section organizes Continental tire offerings for larger RVs by their application – either primarily on highway, or for mixed on/off highway use. The recently introduced HSL1 Coach tire, which includes fuel efficient compounding for primarily on-highway use, is showcased on the site. Other tires recommended on the site include Continental’s HSR1 and HDR.
Source: Continental Tire
RV Trader has released a mobile site that puts more than 60,000 new and used RVs at shoppers’ fingertips. The new RV Trader mobile site is located at m.rvtraderonline.com.
The new RV Trader mobile site allows shoppers to quickly find nearby RVs for sale and RV dealerships. The search tool allows users to search for RVs by type, manufacturer, year, price and keyword. Users can also search for RV dealers and have the option to include a manufacturer in their search which will only return dealers who carry RVs made by that manufacturer. All searches are based on the user’s zip code.
“We are so excited to provide consumers with an additional way to search the largest database of RVs for sale. RV Trader’s iPhone application already received over 5,500 downloads, a product we just launched a few months ago, but with our new mobile site everyone will have over 60,000 RVs at their fingertips,” stated Tim Custer, General Manager of RV Trader.
Once an RV search is completed on the RV Trader mobile site users can then view a detailed description, photos of the RVs for sale, and email the seller or call immediately from their phone. When searching for dealerships users can choose to sort results by distance or by dealership name. The RV Trader mobile site also offers dealership contact options and links to view dealerships’ websites. A map function allows users to locate RVs for sale and RV dealerships on Google maps with access to driving directions. The new RV
Trader mobile site is located at m.rvtraderonline.com.
Source: RV Trader Online
We know you love your Camping Critters, and we have the photos to prove it. We’ve received several great photos. You can see the latest entries on Flickr or in the slideshow above.
Judging starts May 31, so send us your photos now at rvblog@traderonline.com and win a Flip camcorder just in time for the camping season.
The RVIA homepage reports a new survey shows that interest in RV travel remains strong, with nearly half of RV owners planning to spend more time on the road this spring and summer than a year ago.
The latest Campfire Canvass, a biannual survey of RV owners by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), 45.4 percent of RV owners expect to travel more this summer than they did last year; 41.9 percent say they’ll travel the same amount.
More than 8.2 million U.S. households own an RV. RV travel is as popular today as it was in 1910 when the first mass-produced RVs were built.
“For a century, Americans have enjoyed exploring what’s over the next hill and around the bend,” says Richard Coon, president of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. “That pioneering spirit is still alive and well today.”
Source: RVIA
Having a Wi-Fi enabled laptop in your RV can keep you connected to the world while you travel on the road, but finding a reliable Wi-Fi hotspot can be as tricky as parallel parking a Class A RV.
RV.net blog features a story on finding the best Wi-Fi connection when you camp. Many parks offer Wi-Fi service to please their increasing numbers of tech savvy RVers, but your connection can be affected by factors such as distance or another RV blocking your signal.
Source: RV.net.
The Evergreen Recreational Vehicles homepage features a YouTube video on Evergreen’s eco-friendly RVs from WTS Outdoor Adventure and an interview with President Douglas Lantz.
Photo Courtesy of Evergreen RV
EverGreen Recreation Vehicles LLC has already revolutionized the industry with innovative, eco-friendly Ever-Lite travel trailers. The trailers are the first all composite-construction, lightweight, formaldehyde-free, recyclable travel trailers ever produced.
Source: EverGreen Recreation Vehicles