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The RV Industry in Northern Indiana is always up and down. Plant closings are not anything new there. It's all part of the business. A few short years ago, Elkhart County in Indiana was in absolute destitute condition because of a massive down-turn in RV manufacturing. It was devastating. But it also was not the first time either. Covid turned Elkhart and Goshen into boom towns again when RV manufacturing when insanely crazy. They were spitting out RV so fast,.... well ... you all know about the horrible "quality" issue from the Covid era campers! It's now at an end. The industry is resetting itself, once again.

There is nothing nice about anyone loosing their job, even if the job is a temporary one or a contract assignment for a specified length of time. When the end comes, it's never nice and leaves the employee in a very lost and helpless state of mind. But this is the nature of the RV industry.

Given the right conditions and things will upswing again. What that will take is anyone's guess, but it will happen again, and then another down-swing. That doesn't give comfort to those 300 employees, but they also knew the risks when they became employees.

Actually, no one is secure in any job or place of employment, anywhere!

What this does mean for those of us who are avid camping people, it means there is a down-turn in new sales of campers. A down turn and more and more folks now dumping their Covid era built campers means campground availability is opening up for the rest of us. Although, you'd never believe that if you tried booking a campsite ANYWHERE East of the Mississippi Rive for Labor Day week end!

You have to remember, in order to own and actually use an RV of any type, one has to have "disposable money" to buy the thing in the first place. Then they need "disposable time" to actually use it. After Covid, folks are finding they now have neither any more!