Thor has never had an unprofitable year--a rarity for an RV company--not even during the downturn in the late 1980s (though Thompson took no salary for two years to stay in the black).
Just ahead, four attractive young people, a camera crew, a luxury RV - yes it's a reality show, but with a twist.
Berkshire saw revenues rise down the list of the companies it holds in businesses ranging between railroads, auto insurance, electronics components and RV-makers.
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The RV industry was--and remains--as fragmented as the auto industry had been before the Depression.
They did everything together -- traveling the open road in their RV, enjoying what their friends called a 50-year honeymoon.
He's been an off-site chief executive ever since he bought his first RV maker in 1977, when he rented a one-room apartment with a single light and a black-and-white TV above a pizza parlor in Butler, Ohio (pop. 921) and commuted every week from New York.
Part of the problem in Elkhart, that I heard about today, was the fact that -- this is the RV capital of America.
This year, Oak Grove City Park is among a handful of northern Louisiana towns offering free RV spaces to evacuees on a first-come, first-served basis.
It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.
Stop in the middle of the virtual road and do a 360 without worrying about being rear-ended by a ubiquitous RV.
And I asked the cashier just that, her texting and me regaling of how my RV exploded in Louisiana, leaving me wallet-less and homeless with second- and third-degree burns on my body, begging for quick cash from friends to find a hospital and shelter.
Shenkman is currently on his second multi-state seminar tour in his RV, and his cause is fittingly called RV4TheCause.
I've got a pretty nice ride -- it's not your normal RV.
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Like contractors who get paid to rebuild homes and buildings, RV makers figure to get a shot in the arm, as new customers looking for temporary housing and a home-based escape route for the next disaster start lining up.
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