Winnebago Shuts Two Plants: The RV Industry Is Deep in the Woods
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Winnebago Shuts Two Plants: The RV Industry Is Deep in the Woods

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 17, 202621 min

Winnebago Industries is closing two RV manufacturing plants and moving production into other facilities with unused capacity. The company calls it a "strategic manufacturing alignment." We call it what it is: contraction in an RV industry that is deep in the woods. Also in this RV Podcast News Edition: Used RV values are up 11 percent from a year ago, and we took our own advice. We just bought a used small motorhome as a second RV. We are keeping our Brinkley fifth wheel for longer trips, while the motorhome will be used for quicker travel and...

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Hello everybody and welcome to the RV Podcast News Edition for Monday, August 17, 2026. This is one of two RV Podcast episodes that we do every single week. This one of course publishes 6am every Monday with the biggest news stories affecting the RV lifestyle and then on Wednesday Jennifer joins me for our Stories from the Road edition

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where we have interviews and share RV lifestyle tips and travel ideas and answer your questions. Jennifer and I came up in the news business and old habits die hard. So we source our stories, everything you hear today.

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