January 21, 2025 • 14 mins
The Florida RV Supershow just wrapped and we discovered some must see trends on the new 2025 RV models. We’re sharing our top three trends, bottom three trends, and one really big whiff that the RV manufacturers missed this year.
We’re dishing on fifthwheel manufacturers like Brinkley, Forest River, Alliance, and KZ. Join us as we share what you need to know about the all new 2025 RVs.
Also check out some of the stuff we talk about in this episode here:
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RV Help - https://bit.ly/40GTXGh
RV Envy - https://bit.ly/4atzyaJ
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We’re dishing on fifthwheel manufacturers like Brinkley, Forest River, Alliance, and KZ. Join us as we share what you need to know about the all new 2025 RVs.
Also check out some of the stuff we talk about in this episode here:
Sure Route (rvweather) - https://bit.ly/3WvmYSS
RV Life Pro - https://bit.ly/3PIuNR5
RV Help - https://bit.ly/40GTXGh
RV Envy - https://bit.ly/4atzyaJ
OpenRoads - https://bit.ly/3TqkpQk
MoRRyde Safe T-Rail for RVs - https://amzn.to/3Wog5CL
Join the community by checking out https://beacons.ai/wanderingrvbabe and follow us on: Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wanderingrvbabe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanderingrvbabe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088301487861 Support us through our Amazon Store: https://podcast.wanderingbabe.com/amazonstore
*Special thanks for our Intro/Outro music to Stock Media provided by stockmusic331 / Pond5
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, podcast listener, thanks for listening to us on your
way to work or you know, to your next camping trip.
This is a YouTube first show, so if you want
the full experience, go check us out on YouTube. Towo
YouTube two, YouTube to do two to to two two.
The Florida RV Super Show just wrapped and we're breaking
down our top three trends this.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Year, bottom three trends and one really big wif.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
They just missed it, they missed the boat here on
this one or the RV one of them too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, now I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
On this side of the camera. Welcome to the Wandering
RV Show. Your source for our stories, our screwups, and
our success is living the full time RV life. I'm
your host, Kara, the Wandering RV Babe, and this is
my driver Ryan. Howdy Howday. Yeah, we are from Texas,
so you know, you gotta get the you gotta get
the representation in there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
The original always was the Howdy, but then there was
the being the Dudo. I don't even know. I can't
speak any of those languages. I have to look them
up and listen to them every single time before the
old show.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Welcome back, Welcome back, We are at the Florida RV
Super Show. We're actually here. We've been here all week.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
This is our last.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Day of the show, even though it does go on
one more day. But man, we've been here all week.
I am tired, and tomorrow is the last day. It's
also the best day sometimes to get really good deals.
But I'm telling you, everybody's gonna be cranky. I'm definitely
gonna be cranky tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
As if she wasn't already.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, okay, maybe a smidge, maybe a smidge. But we
saw a lot of really awesome new things coming out
for twenty twenty five in the world of r v's
and we're gonna break down our top three trends, the
bottom three trends that we saw, and one really really
big whiff that the manufacturers need to make a trend
(01:51):
for twenty twenty five and totally miss the boat doing
it or miss the RV doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We're talking to you. I don't know who you are,
but we're talking to you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The first trend that we're seeing that I'm really really
digging this year is a wider variation of floor plans,
especially in the towables, the fifth wheels, the travel trailers.
We're starting to see more and more of those, just
kind of different floor plans coming back to suit different
families and different needs, rather than like cookie cutter floor
plan that they all have. You know what I'm talking about.
(02:25):
It's the one where you walk in. It's that open
concept feel. You got the kitchen, you got the kitchen island,
and then you got the rear living but everything's kind
of all in one. It's fine. It works for a
lot of people. It's the number one selling floor plan,
but man like switch it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I call it the standard floor plan. Number two of
our positive trends is a lot of full body paint.
Why okay, full body paint, it's already fully body painted.
I think that that is a misnomber of terms. It
is the anti vinyl wrapper, anti sticker thing, but full
body paint well.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But the full body paint also has paint on the
exterior of like the sidewall of the slides as well,
which makes it a lot easier to clean them off
when you go to pull them in, so you're not
getting all that dirt and grime coming back into the
camper when you go to slide your slides back.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In I'm pretty sure it's painted either way, it's just
nicer painted.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's really nice. We're digging the full body paint. The
lack of decals is really nice too, because then those
decals they're not gonna rub off, they're not gonna get
old over time, they're not gonna fade the paint underneath it.
So it's actually really cool to see. And we're seeing
a lot of like interesting paint.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Designs too, wild.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Wild paint designs. There's one, I think it was the
Keystone Raptor four fifteen, and it has this like teal
and black and gray and white paint scheme, but it
looks a little like eighties nineties design esque. I'm totally
digging it. It's like taking me back.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It belongs on one of those like really old like
vans that people use, like that had the shag carpet
in it and like the swivel chairs in the middle.
Like I totally had one, well my dad had one,
and I played in it all the time, and it
totally belongs on that. It was it was great.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What is number three?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
All the apps? We're getting some really really cool apps
that are designed just for our veers. And just for
RV travel.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean there's a few that we can call out.
Sure Weather I think is sure Route, Sure Route rvweather
dot Com. They're working on stuff to make it for
easier for your plan, like where you're going and what
the weather is going to be. Like RV life Pro
is sorry I interrupted me.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm really bad at interrupting him. You'll find that this
happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
RV life Pro, which is I guess trying to make
an all in one solution trip planner, trip wizard type setup.
What else?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And then it's not really an app, but Open Roads
just came out with a toll tag that's kind of
an all in one toll tag. It can take the
place of any of your other toll tags that you have.
So if you're used to traveling all over the country
and having to have a toll tag for this state
and a tot tag for that state, no more. They
got you all in one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And rvhelp dot Com the new like Mobile RV Help,
the mobile RV tech finder website that's there to like
help you see whose local, read reviews, and it's really convenient.
We're still testing it out. It literally just launched on Monday,
so we're like day five of this being open.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Though.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It is gonna take the place of our typical RV
tech locator. So if you go to RVTAA dot org
slash locate, it's now gonna reroute you to rvhelp dot com,
where you can find mobile RV techs in your area.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And I haven't been able to find it again, but
there was at least one company that was talking about
like making this RV search engine where essentially you put
in the different features that you want, like oh, I
want a rear bunk, or I want a front kitchen,
or I want an outdoor kitchen or big outdoor.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
TV, and they'll find all the RVs that check all
those boxes for you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We had married so long. She just finishes my sentences.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's part of my charm.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And my sandwiches and your sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yes, but you finish the chimps.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And now for our number one of the bottom three.
I don't know how this works. Number one elevators. Televators
are dumb. I don't need a televator in my RV. Listen,
if I'm gonna watch TV, the televator's gonna be up
if I want the window, the televator is gonna be down.
If I You're usually not gaining a big enough window
to make it worthwhile to have that little extra bit,
(06:30):
and you're like, now there's two spaces being taken up
by one TV.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's also a greater transfer of just mechanical failure in general,
because now you have yet one more thing that can break.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
In the RV.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
If you're a TV person, then you're probably not gonna
like the elevator. If you're not a TV person, you
don't care anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And now you've just lost storage space because that televator
is there.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Exactly boo to the televators.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Number.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Next gonna be bedside tables.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So we're coming at.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This keep in mind gett reach fifth wheelers from a
fifth wheeler perspective. So that's the majority of the RVs
that we looked at. I'm not sure if we're seeing
Gummay bedside tables in the Class a's or the Class
c's or whatever, but we definitely are in the fifth wheels.
And what we mean by that is you're laying in
bed and your bedside table is all the way up
tall on top of the window. It's like where the
(07:19):
top of the balants should be, you can't even reach
up there.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So if you have to get.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Your phone in the middle of the night, if you
you know, bring a glass of water or something like
that to bed with.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You, or a glass of something else, glass of.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Apple juice, and you want to take a sip in
the middle of the night, you literally have to sit
up to get to that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm I am like a hunt. I'm like ninety nine
percent sure that the reason they're doing this is they're
trying to put in more king sized beds without increasing
the length of the RV. But here's the thing, if
you want a king sized bed, it's only gonna be
a foot of extra space to have a nice bedside table,
although some people are putting them kind of in the front,
so you still can do it and get it out
of the way. Yeah, there's other concepts to accomplish all
(07:59):
of this. Personally, we sleep in a queen sized bed,
so for us it's actually not a big deal because
we would just take the king out, put our own
bedside tables in, and put a queen in. But we
don't like it. For people who want an all in
one solution, that's just ready to go.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And last is certainly not.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Least number three.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, the last trend we don't like, off you go.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's the gap between the high end luxury fifth wheels
like this, again, fifth wheels mostly, but I think it
might apply to travel trailers as well. But the high
end luxury fifth wheels and their higher weight, especially hitch weight,
versus the more easier to tow lightweight like not as
well usually as well built, like not as sturdy. There's
(08:40):
a big gap between those two where you can make
a fairly well built but not as heavy RV. We
have one, we literally live in one, and the gap
is getting so wide. There's very few RVs that are
still fitting in that people who don't want to have
to have a dually but still have enough of a
truck to be able to do more than just I
don't know, to a half tonner as they call them.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, I mean exactly. We love our fifth weel, we've
been in it for over three years.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But what we're finding.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Is the hitch weight and the pen weight on some
of these fifth wheels are so heavy that our one
ton single rear wheel that's really hard to say. We
don't have a Julie, but we do have a RAM
thirty five hundred SRW SRW and we can't toe a
lot of these new fifth wheels that are coming out
because the two damn heavy on the actual payload of
(09:28):
the truck itself.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And the ones that we can toe are super cheaply
made and like not, it's not I don't need it
that light. I don't need it that cheap. I need
an in between where it's like cheap fish cheap, cheap
cheap in certain areas, like I don't need the nicest
cabinet try in the world, but I do want a
good solid surface countertop so that way, like when I'm
cooking or cleaning the bathroom, it is easy to work with.
(09:52):
But I don't need like the highest end finishes and
little metal thingies or whatever, or trim that's going out
of my ear, growing out of my ear.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Growing out of your ear, the trim that's growing out
of his ear. That's kind of gross. Man. Does it
come with earwax?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean they used to use earwax for something. Was
it candle? Somebody tell me in the comments, Yeah, I
don't know. Okay, here's the big whiff, the thing that
should be a trend, but isn't safer rails for getting
into the RV.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, so a lot of fifth wheels have that like
fuld away grab handle, and unfortunately those things are just
jicky as all get out, especially the ones that are
the extended reach. So we're seeing quite a bit of
that in some of the forest rivers. We're still seeing
quite a bit of that in like Jacob and some
of the CAZy models and things like that. Guys, come on,
(10:43):
it's a safety hazard. It's like the rail is kind
of hard to get to, and that thing's just gonna
sheer right off the side of your RV if you've
got kids or anything that are like leaning on it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's not even kids. My sister literally fell off of
the stairs because it just is not sturdy enough to
really do anything. You didn't rip it off, but it's
just not enough, and they've tried extending it now and
so now it's longer and still jicky as I'll get out.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I feel like that actually makes it more unsafe because
there's like more leverage that you can get on it.
So it's just not a good concept. On the other side,
there are some manufacturers that are using the correct newest technology,
the more ride safe t rail. So it's T DASH
R A I L or similar technology.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Is it like mister t I put it in a food.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Maybe that handle can can that grab handle can handle him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But we are seeing Alliance and Brinkley are really starting
to put that into all of their fifth wheels. It's
just so much safer, it's so much more sturdy, and
it still folds away when you go to hook up
to travel.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Let's see. So Brinkley's doing the t rails, but they're
also doing the televators.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Sometimes you got to take the good with the bad.
And really this is all subjective. This is our opinion.
If you agree with us, let us know in the comments.
If you disagree with us, know why you disagree with
this in the comments too.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, I want to call out for the televator thing
because I know somebody's going to make a comment on
it since I brought it back up again. When we're
talking about our issues with the elevator, we're not talking
about the ones that are like in the front or
kind of in an area where you have a nice
big open window or a nice big open space where
it makes sense. We're talking about the ones that are
like the Brinkleys no offense where they're putting them with
a tiny little window, Like you're not gaining that much
(12:24):
space from the elevator. So I just want to clarify,
like we get it when you have a nice, big
open window and you want to be able to look
outside and then maybe one evening when it's raining, you
want to watch a movie. Totally understand. It's those tiny
ones that don't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, the tiny ones too that we're seeing and we're
knocking on Brinkley right now, just because those are the
ones that we're seeing most prevalently. But they also not
only are they in front of a really tiny window,
it's kind of doesn't make a lot of sense, but
they're intended to be used as extra countertop space for
the kitchen as well. Unfortunately, like food, particulate and stuff
can get in those gaps if you do have the
(12:57):
televator closed, and then you really can't easily get down
into that compartment to clean it up, so then you've
got chromes and stuff like that for cruders to come
and find and crawl. It's just it could be a
better design overall.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So there we go.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do you agree with our tream? Do you agree with
our trends? Do you disagree with our trends? Did we
miss one?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Do you want us to talk about any others?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
We totally missed all that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Fine, it'll find, it'll buff out and post. Don't worry,
it'll buff.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Movie magic editor right here. You're gonna make us sound
super polished and super professional. Hey keepers, we'd love to
stay connected. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
at wandering our v bait. Thanks for joining us. Let's
do it again next weekend. Happy camping fight.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We've been married so long.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I just finished your sentences right, get out of the shot.
So let us know. Do you disagree with our trends?
Do you agree with our trends? Did we miss one?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do you want us to talk about any of the
other trends? Did we miss one?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I like that?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Did we miss one?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah? So we'll just do that again
Hey, podcast listener, thanks for listening to us on your
way to work or you know, to your next camping trip.
This is a YouTube first show, so if you want
the full experience, go check us out on YouTube. Towo
YouTube two, YouTube to do two to to two two.
The Florida RV Super Show just wrapped and we're breaking
down our top three trends this.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Year, bottom three trends and one really big wif.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
They just missed it, they missed the boat here on
this one or the RV one of them too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, now I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
On this side of the camera. Welcome to the Wandering
RV Show. Your source for our stories, our screwups, and
our success is living the full time RV life. I'm
your host, Kara, the Wandering RV Babe, and this is
my driver Ryan. Howdy Howday. Yeah, we are from Texas,
so you know, you gotta get the you gotta get
the representation in there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
The original always was the Howdy, but then there was
the being the Dudo. I don't even know. I can't
speak any of those languages. I have to look them
up and listen to them every single time before the
old show.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Welcome back, Welcome back, We are at the Florida RV
Super Show. We're actually here. We've been here all week.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
This is our last.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Day of the show, even though it does go on
one more day. But man, we've been here all week.
I am tired, and tomorrow is the last day. It's
also the best day sometimes to get really good deals.
But I'm telling you, everybody's gonna be cranky. I'm definitely
gonna be cranky tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
As if she wasn't already.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, okay, maybe a smidge, maybe a smidge. But we
saw a lot of really awesome new things coming out
for twenty twenty five in the world of r v's
and we're gonna break down our top three trends, the
bottom three trends that we saw, and one really really
big whiff that the manufacturers need to make a trend
(01:51):
for twenty twenty five and totally miss the boat doing
it or miss the RV doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We're talking to you. I don't know who you are,
but we're talking to you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The first trend that we're seeing that I'm really really
digging this year is a wider variation of floor plans,
especially in the towables, the fifth wheels, the travel trailers.
We're starting to see more and more of those, just
kind of different floor plans coming back to suit different
families and different needs, rather than like cookie cutter floor
plan that they all have. You know what I'm talking about.
(02:25):
It's the one where you walk in. It's that open
concept feel. You got the kitchen, you got the kitchen island,
and then you got the rear living but everything's kind
of all in one. It's fine. It works for a
lot of people. It's the number one selling floor plan,
but man like switch it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I call it the standard floor plan. Number two of
our positive trends is a lot of full body paint.
Why okay, full body paint, it's already fully body painted.
I think that that is a misnomber of terms. It
is the anti vinyl wrapper, anti sticker thing, but full
body paint well.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But the full body paint also has paint on the
exterior of like the sidewall of the slides as well,
which makes it a lot easier to clean them off
when you go to pull them in, so you're not
getting all that dirt and grime coming back into the
camper when you go to slide your slides back.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In I'm pretty sure it's painted either way, it's just
nicer painted.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's really nice. We're digging the full body paint. The
lack of decals is really nice too, because then those
decals they're not gonna rub off, they're not gonna get
old over time, they're not gonna fade the paint underneath it.
So it's actually really cool to see. And we're seeing
a lot of like interesting paint.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Designs too, wild.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Wild paint designs. There's one, I think it was the
Keystone Raptor four fifteen, and it has this like teal
and black and gray and white paint scheme, but it
looks a little like eighties nineties design esque. I'm totally
digging it. It's like taking me back.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It belongs on one of those like really old like
vans that people use, like that had the shag carpet
in it and like the swivel chairs in the middle.
Like I totally had one, well my dad had one,
and I played in it all the time, and it
totally belongs on that. It was it was great.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What is number three?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
All the apps? We're getting some really really cool apps
that are designed just for our veers. And just for
RV travel.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean there's a few that we can call out.
Sure Weather I think is sure Route, Sure Route rvweather
dot Com. They're working on stuff to make it for
easier for your plan, like where you're going and what
the weather is going to be. Like RV life Pro
is sorry I interrupted me.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm really bad at interrupting him. You'll find that this
happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
RV life Pro, which is I guess trying to make
an all in one solution trip planner, trip wizard type setup.
What else?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And then it's not really an app, but Open Roads
just came out with a toll tag that's kind of
an all in one toll tag. It can take the
place of any of your other toll tags that you have.
So if you're used to traveling all over the country
and having to have a toll tag for this state
and a tot tag for that state, no more. They
got you all in one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And rvhelp dot Com the new like Mobile RV Help,
the mobile RV tech finder website that's there to like
help you see whose local, read reviews, and it's really convenient.
We're still testing it out. It literally just launched on Monday,
so we're like day five of this being open.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Though.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It is gonna take the place of our typical RV
tech locator. So if you go to RVTAA dot org
slash locate, it's now gonna reroute you to rvhelp dot com,
where you can find mobile RV techs in your area.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And I haven't been able to find it again, but
there was at least one company that was talking about
like making this RV search engine where essentially you put
in the different features that you want, like oh, I
want a rear bunk, or I want a front kitchen,
or I want an outdoor kitchen or big outdoor.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
TV, and they'll find all the RVs that check all
those boxes for you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We had married so long. She just finishes my sentences.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's part of my charm.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And my sandwiches and your sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yes, but you finish the chimps.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And now for our number one of the bottom three.
I don't know how this works. Number one elevators. Televators
are dumb. I don't need a televator in my RV. Listen,
if I'm gonna watch TV, the televator's gonna be up
if I want the window, the televator is gonna be down.
If I You're usually not gaining a big enough window
to make it worthwhile to have that little extra bit,
(06:30):
and you're like, now there's two spaces being taken up
by one TV.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's also a greater transfer of just mechanical failure in general,
because now you have yet one more thing that can break.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
In the RV.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
If you're a TV person, then you're probably not gonna
like the elevator. If you're not a TV person, you
don't care anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And now you've just lost storage space because that televator
is there.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Exactly boo to the televators.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Number.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Next gonna be bedside tables.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So we're coming at.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This keep in mind gett reach fifth wheelers from a
fifth wheeler perspective. So that's the majority of the RVs
that we looked at. I'm not sure if we're seeing
Gummay bedside tables in the Class a's or the Class
c's or whatever, but we definitely are in the fifth wheels.
And what we mean by that is you're laying in
bed and your bedside table is all the way up
tall on top of the window. It's like where the
(07:19):
top of the balants should be, you can't even reach
up there.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So if you have to get.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Your phone in the middle of the night, if you
you know, bring a glass of water or something like
that to bed with.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You, or a glass of something else, glass of.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Apple juice, and you want to take a sip in
the middle of the night, you literally have to sit
up to get to that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm I am like a hunt. I'm like ninety nine
percent sure that the reason they're doing this is they're
trying to put in more king sized beds without increasing
the length of the RV. But here's the thing, if
you want a king sized bed, it's only gonna be
a foot of extra space to have a nice bedside table,
although some people are putting them kind of in the front,
so you still can do it and get it out
of the way. Yeah, there's other concepts to accomplish all
(07:59):
of this. Personally, we sleep in a queen sized bed,
so for us it's actually not a big deal because
we would just take the king out, put our own
bedside tables in, and put a queen in. But we
don't like it. For people who want an all in
one solution, that's just ready to go.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And last is certainly not.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Least number three.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, the last trend we don't like, off you go.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's the gap between the high end luxury fifth wheels
like this, again, fifth wheels mostly, but I think it
might apply to travel trailers as well. But the high
end luxury fifth wheels and their higher weight, especially hitch weight,
versus the more easier to tow lightweight like not as
well usually as well built, like not as sturdy. There's
(08:40):
a big gap between those two where you can make
a fairly well built but not as heavy RV. We
have one, we literally live in one, and the gap
is getting so wide. There's very few RVs that are
still fitting in that people who don't want to have
to have a dually but still have enough of a
truck to be able to do more than just I
don't know, to a half tonner as they call them.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, I mean exactly. We love our fifth weel, we've
been in it for over three years.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But what we're finding.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Is the hitch weight and the pen weight on some
of these fifth wheels are so heavy that our one
ton single rear wheel that's really hard to say. We
don't have a Julie, but we do have a RAM
thirty five hundred SRW SRW and we can't toe a
lot of these new fifth wheels that are coming out
because the two damn heavy on the actual payload of
(09:28):
the truck itself.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And the ones that we can toe are super cheaply
made and like not, it's not I don't need it
that light. I don't need it that cheap. I need
an in between where it's like cheap fish cheap, cheap
cheap in certain areas, like I don't need the nicest
cabinet try in the world, but I do want a
good solid surface countertop so that way, like when I'm
cooking or cleaning the bathroom, it is easy to work with.
(09:52):
But I don't need like the highest end finishes and
little metal thingies or whatever, or trim that's going out
of my ear, growing out of my ear.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Growing out of your ear, the trim that's growing out
of his ear. That's kind of gross. Man. Does it
come with earwax?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean they used to use earwax for something. Was
it candle? Somebody tell me in the comments, Yeah, I
don't know. Okay, here's the big whiff, the thing that
should be a trend, but isn't safer rails for getting
into the RV.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, so a lot of fifth wheels have that like
fuld away grab handle, and unfortunately those things are just
jicky as all get out, especially the ones that are
the extended reach. So we're seeing quite a bit of
that in some of the forest rivers. We're still seeing
quite a bit of that in like Jacob and some
of the CAZy models and things like that. Guys, come on,
(10:43):
it's a safety hazard. It's like the rail is kind
of hard to get to, and that thing's just gonna
sheer right off the side of your RV if you've
got kids or anything that are like leaning on it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's not even kids. My sister literally fell off of
the stairs because it just is not sturdy enough to
really do anything. You didn't rip it off, but it's
just not enough, and they've tried extending it now and
so now it's longer and still jicky as I'll get out.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I feel like that actually makes it more unsafe because
there's like more leverage that you can get on it.
So it's just not a good concept. On the other side,
there are some manufacturers that are using the correct newest technology,
the more ride safe t rail. So it's T DASH
R A I L or similar technology.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Is it like mister t I put it in a food.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Maybe that handle can can that grab handle can handle him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But we are seeing Alliance and Brinkley are really starting
to put that into all of their fifth wheels. It's
just so much safer, it's so much more sturdy, and
it still folds away when you go to hook up
to travel.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Let's see. So Brinkley's doing the t rails, but they're
also doing the televators.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Sometimes you got to take the good with the bad.
And really this is all subjective. This is our opinion.
If you agree with us, let us know in the comments.
If you disagree with us, know why you disagree with
this in the comments too.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, I want to call out for the televator thing
because I know somebody's going to make a comment on
it since I brought it back up again. When we're
talking about our issues with the elevator, we're not talking
about the ones that are like in the front or
kind of in an area where you have a nice
big open window or a nice big open space where
it makes sense. We're talking about the ones that are
like the Brinkleys no offense where they're putting them with
a tiny little window, Like you're not gaining that much
(12:24):
space from the elevator. So I just want to clarify,
like we get it when you have a nice, big
open window and you want to be able to look
outside and then maybe one evening when it's raining, you
want to watch a movie. Totally understand. It's those tiny
ones that don't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, the tiny ones too that we're seeing and we're
knocking on Brinkley right now, just because those are the
ones that we're seeing most prevalently. But they also not
only are they in front of a really tiny window,
it's kind of doesn't make a lot of sense, but
they're intended to be used as extra countertop space for
the kitchen as well. Unfortunately, like food, particulate and stuff
can get in those gaps if you do have the
(12:57):
televator closed, and then you really can't easily get down
into that compartment to clean it up, so then you've
got chromes and stuff like that for cruders to come
and find and crawl. It's just it could be a
better design overall.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So there we go.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do you agree with our tream? Do you agree with
our trends? Do you disagree with our trends? Did we
miss one?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Do you want us to talk about any others?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
We totally missed all that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Fine, it'll find, it'll buff out and post. Don't worry,
it'll buff.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Movie magic editor right here. You're gonna make us sound
super polished and super professional. Hey keepers, we'd love to
stay connected. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
at wandering our v bait. Thanks for joining us. Let's
do it again next weekend. Happy camping fight.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We've been married so long.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I just finished your sentences right, get out of the shot.
So let us know. Do you disagree with our trends?
Do you agree with our trends? Did we miss one?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do you want us to talk about any of the
other trends? Did we miss one?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I like that?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Did we miss one?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah? So we'll just do that again
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