How do we impact the industry?
Last week I attended the NTP Distribution Show in Austin, Texas. I spent three days attending workshops, visiting exhibitors on the show floor and speaking with dealers.
The general consensus of the show that was it was ‘better than expected.’ I was told from NTP representatives that attendance was slightly down but the mood of the event was upbeat and cheerful.
In speaking with folks at the show most feel the industry is stable but could be better. While I was attending the show I kept an eye on our opinion poll and blog comments posted on www.rvtradedigest.com
I was a bit shocked that 57 percent of RV Trade Digest opinion poll voters said that their dealership “could be better” or was “terrible.”
I then viewed the blog comments left in my “President Obama’s visit to Elkhart” blog post. Eighteen comments were left by readers expressing their thoughts on the economy, the industry and Obama’s administration’s attempt to fix the current problems.
As one of the editor’s of RV Trade Digest I would like to hear more about how we can fix this industry economic issue.
RVIA and RVDA have taken great strides to assist the industry in the current times and we all should rally to help in their efforts.
I would truly like to hear some suggestions on how we all can positively impact our industry in these hard times. Granted, some of the issues that need fixing are out of our control but I would like to get a discussion going on steps we all can take to get through this dilemma.
If you have suggestions please feel free to leave a blog comment or if you would like to send me a one-on-one note feel free to e-mail Jackie@rvtradedigest.com or call 800-547-7377 ext. 1148. You may also contact our Publisher Bob Carnahan with potential suggestions. He can be reached by e-mailing publisher@rvtradedigest.com or calling 800-547-7377 ext. 1682.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Elementry! (in many ways)
Government is too big and intrusive. Wasteful and often counter-productive.
Corupt too! A burden on our economy!
My State(MA)is about to incease the gas tax!
Highest in the nation.
Federal taxes and exspensive regulations are growing faster than ever before! God help us
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
You are obvoisly brighter than our Presedent. I could not have said it better myself. Thamk you for thinking.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I have been reading opinion blogs on the subject of our faultering echonomy and its negitive impact on our industry.sadly most resolutions have called for intervention from government in either positive or negitive actions or some combinations thereof,but i have not read where anyone has placed the blame where it clearly belongs or offered any solution to it.the blame clearly lies with the government to begin with and with the radical views of the enviromentalist movement who votes for and continues to empower these modern pharohs
(pagans) who are responsible for the regulations and punitave tax structure we are now enslaved to.and until thees issues are addressed we will continue to slide downward into an abbyss of virtual slavery to a bunch of tree hugger,petas,and other people who think that they are intitled to controll every aspect of any persons life or property.it is because of theese radicals that we are burdened with the EPA and its other government agencies that have very little or no direct oversight from the voter
I will limit my evedience only to the auto industry because it is so closely tied to the rv and energy industeries,and they are the ones being called before congress and are being forced to kowtow to them in order to save what is left of their once great industeral might.for well over 40 years the government has ben telling the car companies how to build cars.what gas mileage they have to achieve what safty standards to meet etc.as a result they had to produce and sell cars at a loss or at least not a good profitable margin only to keep their fuel numbers in line in order to sell profitable vehicles like pickups and suvs.this is where it impacts our business we need for people to feel good about owning diesel trucks ans surburbans even if they arnt the best on gas mileage.and to sell theese vehicles the car companies had to sell lots of little cars to make up for the big ones. on top of that the government placed a gas guzzler tax on the vehicles that we usualy aspire to own some day like supercars and if it wernt for the truck exemption the our pickups enjoy they to would be punished.in addition the government agreed to pay people to buy what it wants you to buy. the prius from toyota came with a tax credit that means that when you see some one in one they are a recipiant of welfair just like the baby factory who has no idea who the father is or is not willing to take responsibility and get a job.it was not until gas got to be 4.+ per gallon that anyone cared about theese types of cars that wont pull anything except a small popup.the enviromental regulations have hamstrung to domestic supliers of energy and forced us to depend on foriegn sorces for energy even in the face of echonomic disaster and colapse they refuse to allow us to use our own resources that a easy to use,and cost effective.as an alternative they sugest we pay more for undeveloped and costly sources like solar,wind,hydrogen,etc the only thing we know for shure is that theese sources cost more and are not proven to be comercaly viable yet.all these energies might work somday when they can compete on a fair echonomic playing field.at this time if you have to pay some one ,or punish some one for not behaving a certin way in the case of the hybird car vs the surburban.you wont have a viable auto or rv industry in this nation un less it is state owned and subsidized. too much government has led us to this point and it is incapable of solving the problem it can at best push it forward into to future with debt but only at the cost of enslaving future generations in the form of higher taxes,inflation or both.