Hershey Opens As Diesel Hits A Record And The Industry Reshuffles
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Hershey Opens As Diesel Hits A Record And The Industry Reshuffles

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202620 min
  • News bulletin
  • Business & money

Diesel hit $6.05 a gallon Friday. That has never happened before. Not in 2008. Not in 2022. Never. I paid $6.29 in Michigan the morning I recorded this. California stations are posting $9.99. Then Thor Industries dropped a leadership shakeup Thursday night and never mentioned the man who has run Keystone for a decade. Sources close to the company tell me Jeff Runels is out, effective that day, and that big changes are coming to Keystone. All of it lands the same week America's Largest RV Show opens in Hershey with 1,500 RVs on the lot and dealers who need to...

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Good morning, good morning everybody. I'm Mike Wendland and this is the Monday RV Podcast News Edition, one of two RV Podcast episodes that we do every week. This one publishes every Monday, 6am, the biggest news stories affecting the RV lifestyle. And then on Wednesday, Jennifer joins me for our Stories from the Road edition where we have interviews and share

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RV lifestyle tips and travel ideas and answer your questions. But now we're worried about how we put this show together because this week it matters more than usual. I'm a journalist by training. I spent more than 40 years working for big city newspapers, television stations, and even a network. And in that business, you learn very quickly that you do not report anything

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you can't source. Jennifer and I came up in the news business and old habits die hard. So we source our stories, we check the numbers, we try to separate what actually happened from what the press releases want you to believe happen and you'll find links to every story we report for every episode at RVPodcast.com. So go to the show notes

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