The Hershey Crowds Were Real. So Is the RV Slump.
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The Hershey Crowds Were Real. So Is the RV Slump.

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202621 min
  • News bulletin
  • Business & money

Hershey drew its biggest opening-day crowd since 2021 while RV shipments stayed down almost 14 percent for the year. We separate the show buzz from the industry numbers and show you where the leverage is if you are shopping this fall. Also: Alliance RV opens its Elkhart Open House to the public for the first time, the BLM reviews a dozen AI data center proposals on public land, the Lippert and Patrick merger hits an antitrust delay, and Elon Musk moves into an Airstream in Memphis. Full transcript and every source link at RVPodcast.com. ...

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Hello everybody, I'm Mike Wendland and this is the Monday RV Podcast News Edition for September 21, 2026. This is one of two RV Podcast episodes that we do every week here. This one publishes 6 am every Monday with the biggest news stories affecting the RV

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lifestyle and then on Wednesdays Jennifer joins me for our Stories from the Road edition where we have interviews and share RV lifestyle tips and travel ideas and answer your questions. Before we get to the news, one date to put on your calendar. Thursday, October 8th.

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I'm teaching our End of the Season RV Shut Down Workshop. It will be live and it will walk you through the complete shutdown process for your rig with particular attention to the plumbing system, which is where an expensive water mistake usually happens.

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