The SUV boom has put into millions of driveways vehicles that can tow huge RVs.
Now Thompson is expanding further into the big leagues with the manufacture of drivable RVs.
In addition to its Winnebago brand, the company also sells RVs under the Itasca and Rialta brands.
Some of those temporary homesteaders may end up buying RVs from the likes of sales rep Brian Dunlap.
Factory workers likewise are often paid for how many RVs they turn out, not at some hourly rate.
Indeed, trade association officials project as many as 40, 000 RVs may be needed in the wake of Katrina.
These are more complex to build and sell than the lower-end towable RVs, a market that Thor now dominates.
RVs have refrigerators that run on natural gas or propane(made from natural gas).
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The U.S. is the next market at the end of 2011, and you know we have a lot of RVs.
In drivable RVs, Thor will run head-on into the powerful 46-year-old firm Winnebago, which gets all its sales from drivable RVs.
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For many motorists, that means hours spent crawling along parched beach highways or getting stuck behind slow-moving RVs in national parks.
Keystone is now the country's biggest maker of towable RVs, with 18.2% of the market last year, up from 16.4% in 2002.
The RVs will depreciate, but not enough to offset the rental income.
Most people begin their trips in Mexico, where car camping is easier because many North Americans winter there, usually in recreational vehicles (RVs).
Workers in many of Thor's plants are paid not by the hour, but by how many RVs they get out the door each day.
The fraction of 35-to-44-year-old Americans who own RVs grew to 9.6% in 2001 from 6.9% in 1997, according to a 2001 University of Michigan study.
The price seems high, but RVs are really expensive, and back-up power will just be one more option that Good Sam members will check off.
Furthermore, how long will it be before the EPA assumes greenhouse gas regulatory authority over airplanes, buses, boats, tractors, RVs, lawn mowers, motorcycles and mining equipment?
It's no accident that to get from the campground to the clubhouse visitors who otherwise weren't looking to trade up must pass by a fleet of glistening 40-foot RVs.
Bruce Hertzke, the chairman, chief executive and president of Winnebago Industries (nyse: WGO - news - people ), knows the business of recreational vehicles (RVs) from the plumbing up.
Workampers live in RVs while working in recreational areas such as parks, campgrounds, amusement parks or resorts in exchange for wages and a free campsite in which to park their mobile homes.
Lance Wilson, head of the Florida RV Trade Association, projected that FEMA would need 40, 000 RVs to meet the needs caused by Katrina's wreckage, though agency reps didn't return calls confirming that number.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
Some top dogs travel the country in blinged-out RVs, comparable to a rock star's ride, though as Dean writes in "Show Dog, " Uno the beagle, upon winning Westminster, got his own seat on a commercial plane.
RVs can be invaluable in emergencies--from high-tailing it out of harms way during a hurricane or tornado to setting up shop in your driveway during a power outage, like many on the East Coast did during the blackout of August 2003.
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