RV Dealers Can't Find Enough RVs To Sell

Above, RVs on display at an RV show during plentiful times Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There is currently a RV boom. People are finding that traveling in a recreational vehicle is the safest way to travel during the pandemic and are buying them up like crazy.

The boom would be much, much bigger if dealers had plenty of RVs to sell. But there's a "little" problem.

According to RV Travel, the problem is:

I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a conference call with about 20 large RV dealers and a few other “movers and shakers” in the RVing industry. Boy, it was an eye-opener.

You’d think that everyone on the call would have been doing celebratory cartwheels over the RV manufacturing shipment numbers for the past four quarters, not to mention the fact that dealers literally can’t keep any of those new RVs on their lots.

But the call was filled with cloudy, dark undertones of doom. While I can’t name names at this point, the primary topics on the call were the severely broken supply chain for RV parts, the resulting inventory problems for RV dealers, and the price increases dealers are already seeing on the very few rigs that are trickling in from the manufacturers.

My cousin was one of the lucky ones. She and her husband ordered a Class C motorhome and just had to wait a couple of weeks for it to be delivered to the dealer. That was about a couple of months ago.

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