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EXPLORE YOUR ADVENTUROUS SIDE. Get rolling with an affordable RV loan from Loan Amount APRs* as low as Refinance — Essex Credit, a division of Bank of the West. $50,000+ 3.99% Private Party Purchases Our experienced consultants make getting — $25,000–$49,999 4.29% Purchase Locally or Cross-Country your loan quick, easy and stress-free, so you 4UZ. IT’S OUR CULTURE. APR is fixed for the life of the loan. Other rates with different loan terms can look forward to what’s really important — are available. Rates are accurate as of July 19, 2016. See our Owners of premium RVs built on Freightliner Custom Chassis recognize enjoying your RV. website for current rates and terms, as well as financing for Full-Timers 4UZ as the fi rst three digits of their Vehicle Identifi cation Number. For us, and loan amounts below $25,000. it’s a symbol of pride in our top-quality, American-made workmanship. All those who share that pride are invited to visit 4UZRV.com and check Changing market conditions can affect rates, Start your adventure and out our unique merchandise that captures the spirit of our culture. It’s a pride that’s born and bred in Gaff ney, South Carolina and Driven by You. so act now to take advantage of our low APRs. apply online today. www.essexcredit.com/tiffin Headed to our neck of the woods? Stop by for a tour We also offer financing for Full-Timers. and soak up our Southern hospitality. (866) 377-3948 NEW - USED - REFINANCE * Estimated APR (Annual Percentage Rate). Subject to consumer loan program requirements and credit approval. Certain fees, closing costs, and restrictions may apply. APR applied to the loan is the APR in effect on the date the application is received and is valid until 30 days after the loan is approved. APRs may vary with loan term. For a purchase, RV must be 2008 model year or newer. For a refinance, RV must be 2006 model year or newer. Maximum loan-to-value is determined by the following: credit score and model year, with collateral value being established per NADA Used Wholesale Base Trade-In Value. Maximum loan term based on model year, loan amount, loan type, and lender guidelines. Example of a recreational use RV loan: A 10 year fixed-rate $85,000 loan. Specifi cations are subject to change without notice. Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation is registered Based on an APR of 3.99%, this loan has 120 monthly payments of $860.18 each. to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004. ©2016 Daimler Trucks North America LLC. All rights reserved. Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation is a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America LLC, a Daimler company. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. © 2016 Bank of the West. NMLS ID# 19116 Roughing it SUMMER 2016 VOLUME 13 NUMBER 3 Smoothly July 2016 Volume 13, Number 3 Roughing It Smoothly® magazine is published four times a year by Book Production Resources for Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc., 105 2nd Street NW, Red Bay, Alabama 35582. BPR offices are located at 1403 Cedar Point Way, Monroe, Georgia 30656. Periodical postage paid at Monroe, GA and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send all changes of address to Book Production Resources PO Box 1150 Monroe, GA 30655-1150 8 22 46 This issue of Roughing It Smoothly® has a printed distribution of approximately 26,500 copies, an online distribution of 42,000 copies, and a dealer distribution of 12,000 copies. It was printed by Quad Graphics, Inc., N63 W23075 Departments Features State Hwy. 74, Sussex, WI 53089. Copyright © 2016 by Book Production President’s Corner 4 On the Road with Dave & Terri 44 The 2017 Allegro Open Road 36UA Resources. All rights reserved. Roughing It ® New Technology in Woodworking • Tiffin’s Ultimate Family Camping Machine Smoothly is a registered trademark of Tiffin Shops Enhances Quality Owner Profile 46 Motorhomes, Inc. No part of this magazine Bob and Carol Hill See page 8 may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Tiffin Allegro Club News 6 Publisher, Book Production Resources News You Can Use 60 Editor, Fred Thompson Tiffin Management Team 16 Alaska! And Denali National Park and Preserve Typesetting and Page Makeup, Andy Cargile Tony Lambert Traveling With Your Pets 66 • Copy Editor, Carolyn Thompson See page 22 National Advertising Director, Dale Cathey From the Road 68 Contributing Writers: Fred Thompson, Dealer Profile 32 Norman Spray, Danny Inman, Dave & Terri Transwest Truck Trailer RV Serious Tech Talk 72 Iconic Asheville McClellan, Bob Tiffin, Dr. John Pilarczyk, Mary Findley, Claudia Abbott, and Sally Moore. Dealer Spotlight 40 • Delightful for Over a Century Contributing Photographers: Claudia Abbott, Cover: Denali Fred Thompson, Dave & Terri McClellan, Sally George Eidsness See page 50 Moore, Sarah Beaty, and Rhonda Spray. Roughing It Smoothly circulation jumps to 81,000 printed and online magazines. Over 26,500 Tiffin owners are now receiving tion. Color prints are welcome and we will use Serious Tech Talk The Allegro Open Road 31MA is now shipping to dealers. Built on the Ford chassis Roughing It Smoothly through the U.S. and Cana- them if we have the space. We do not return col- To address your technical questions to Danny 2017 2-D dian postal service. Over 42,000 have chosen to or prints or manuscript. You can also send your Inman, use the postcard bound in this issue, with the V10 Triton engine, it is loaded with standard features at a base price of $155,000. Three read RIS online at the Tiffin website. Our deal- “From the Road” contribution by email to fred- send a longer letter to the address on the post- options put this 31-footer in a class by itself: a residential refrigerator with 4 batteries ($1,160); a ers are distributing 12,000 copies in their show- [email protected] You may attach card, or send an email to RIStechtalk@gmail. 31 MA rooms. Roughing It Smoothly is in its 13th year your images to your email. Images should be at com If you need an immediate answer to a king size bed with memory foam mattress ($870); and a dinette with computer workstation ($725). and is the largest magazine published by an RV least one megabyte in size. On the subject line of service problem, you should call 256-356- manufacturer in number of pages and total dis- the email, please write FROM THE ROAD. We 0261. tribution. do not open emails without subject lines. In each issue you will still find two cards for New Subscribers sending information to the editorial office in Change of Address If you have just purchased a new Tiffin motor- Monroe, Georgia. Using the “From the Road” Please use a standard change of address card home, your name will be added to our mail- card, we invite you to tell fellow Tiffin coach own- from USPS and send to Roughing It Smoothly, ing list automatically. If you purchased a pre- ers about your experiences and the special places PO Box 1150, Monroe, GA 30655-1150. You may owned Tiffin motorhome, send the year, brand, 72"X 80" KING BED TV WITH you have discovered in your travels. If the card is also change your address online by sending your length & floorplan, your name and address, and OPTIONAL FIREPLACE TV not large enough, please type a whole page dou- email to [email protected] First, enter your VIN to Roughing It Smoothly, PO Box 1150, BELOW* ble-spaced, and mail it to Fred Thompson, Book old address as it appears on your magazine label Monroe, GA 30655-1150. Production Resources, P.O. Box 1150, Monroe, (we must remove your old address before we can GA 30655-1150. Be sure to include your name add a new one). Second, please enter your new Advertisers TV ABOVE VANITY REMOVABLE DINETTE TABLE and address, phone number, and email address three-line address including the zip code. We do To advertise in RIS, contact Dale Cathey at 817- TABL BROOM CLOSET in case we need to edit or ask for more informa- not accept phone calls for changes of address. 247-5147. [email protected] PANTRY E STORAGE The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road®, Phaeton®, Allegro®, Allegro Bay®, Allegro Bus®, Allegro Breeze®, Zephyr®, Roughing It Smoothly®, Pusher®, and PowerGlide®. OPTIONAL SLIDE-OUT (* FIREPLACE NOT AVAILABLE WITH SOFA BED IN SLIDE-OUT) EXTERIOR TV SOFA BED 2 ROUGHING IT SMOOTHLY 3 which is 330 feet long and 100 feet wide. PRESIDENT’S CORNER The other half of the building is occupied by the department that assembles all of the finished parts into overhead and gal- New Technology in Woodworking Shops Enhances ley cabinets, fascias on the slide-outs, valances, doors, bedside tables, dinette- Quality of Tiffin’s Cabinets and Paneling com puter workstations, wall modules, by Bob Tiffin and trey ceilings and accents. When the finished components emerge Building a coach at Tiffin Motorhomes is a progression of steps ing nearly 20 years ago when he opened a plant in the nearby on carts from the end of the tunnel, the that begins with the acceptance of a dealer’s order in the Tiffin village of Vina to construct and finish the raised panel doors carts do a U-turn and move at 1.5 feet per Sales Department and concludes in a department that we call and other components which added significant quality to the minute down the alley between the tunnel Final Finish. The production of all departments must be coordi- motor homes’ interiors.