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FCCC_RV Performance Tiffin_Ad.indd 1 12/14/12 10:42 AM Michelin RV ad.indd 1 1/13/12 11:54 AM Roughing it WINTER 2013 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 1 Smoothly January 2013 Volume 10, Number 1 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, GA 30656. Printed in the United States of America. Postage paid at Bolingbrook, Illinois 60440. Postmaster: Send all changes of address to Book Production Resources 1403 Cedar Point Way Monroe, GA 30656. 8 38 42 This issue of Roughing It Smoothly® has a postal distribution of approximately 46,500 copies and a dealer distribution of 12,000 copies. Departments Features It was printed by Quad Graphics, Inc., N63 W23075 State Hwy. 74, Sussex, WI 53089. Copyright © 2013 by Book Production President’s Corner 4 Owner Profile 24 Test Driving the 2013 Breeze 28 BR Resources. All rights reserved. Roughing It The Grand Ole Service at TMH Livin’ in a Cowboy State of Mind • ® See page 6 Smoothly is a registered trademark of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc. No part of this magazine On the Road with Elaine 16 Traveling With Your Pets 27 may be reproduced in any form without the TMH Downsizes the Allegro RED written permission of the publisher. Tiffin Management Team 17 RV Healthy 28 • 33 AA Floorplan Opens New Markets for This Entry-Level Diesel Pusher See page 8 Publisher, Book Production Resources Jack Elliott: A Jack of All Trades Editor, Fred Thompson; Typesetting and News You Can Use 30 Page Makeup, Andy Cargile; Copy Editor, at Tiffin Motorhomes Riding the Rails Carolyn Thompson. Contributing Writers: From the Road 34 Bob Tiffin, Fred Thompson, Norman Spray, Dealer Profile 20 • Riding High on the Cumbres & Toltec See page 38 Danny Inman, Elaine Austin, Dr. John P. Davis Motorhome Mart Serious Tech Talk 54 Pilarczyk, Sylvia Tarnuzzer, and Marlin Saint. Contributing Photographers: Fred Thompson, Cover Mt. Hood, 11,239 ft., Oregon’s The Oregon Trail Elaine Austin, National Park Service, and highest mountain. Photography by Fred • Part II From Ft. Laramie, Wyoming to Twin Falls, Idaho See page 42 Constellation Imageworks. Thompson. Please note the recall in the centerfold of this issue . Many Tiffin owners who have Norcold refrig- well as entertaining reading to our owners. Syl- PO Box 1738, Monroe, GA 30655-1738. You Breaking News . erators involved in this recall have not called in via and Paul Tarnuzzer travel in their Allegro may also change your address online by send- On November 27, Tiffin Motorhomes presented to its dealers Jerry Williamson, Tiffin’s general sales manager, said at the Na- for instructions to have their units checked and Bus and plan to become full-timers in the near ing your email to [email protected] First, overhead cabinet ONE RECLINER W/FLIP TABLE modified to eliminate a potential fire hazard. future. Sylvia, founder of RVHealthy, Inc., is enter your old address as it appears on your for the first time the 2013 Allegro Bus 45 LP on Tiffin’s exclusive tional Dealer’s Show in Louisville. “Our driverdealers side (no tv) were favorably We are sending the Winter 2013 issue to our a certified health coach who understands our magazine label (we must remove your old PowerGlide chassis. “This new floorplan satisfies a market de- impressed and immediately placed orders.” Tiffin began deliver- 72" X 80" king bed entire mailing list to be sure everyone sees this traveling lifestyle and offers great advice on her address before we can add a new one). Sec- u-shaped booth dinette freestanding freestanding dinette entertainment center with one fireplace below tv leather lift mand for the spaciousness offered by the 45-foot class at a dresscabinet/dinette ing the 45 LP within mid-December.leather lift recliner The & flip table coach in entertainment will be featuredrecliners in recall one more time! If you have not responded, website www.rvhealthy.com as well as her week- ond, please enter your new three-line address computer workstation center drawers/nightstand read the ad in the centerfold and call the dedi- ly episodes on RVNN.TV including the zip code. We do not accept level that maintains the pricedrawers/nightstand point of the Allegro Bus brand,” the Spring 2013 issue of Roughing It Smoothly. cated Norcold phone number now. phone calls for changes of address. Serious Tech Talk If you did not send in your free subscription To address your technical questions to Danny New Subscribers overhead cabinet ohc microwave ohc request card . Inman, use the postcard bound in this issue, If you have just purchased a new Tiffin motor- overhead cabinet We will remove the owners from our Spring send a longer letter to the address on the post- home, be assured that your name/address will tv overhead cabinet ohc overhead cabinet 2013 mailing list who did not ask for the maga- card, or send an email to RIStechtalk@gmail. be added to our mailing list automatically. We cabinets drawers below lav zine to be sent to them. Those owners will be com If you need an immediate answer to a receive a new sales report every quarter. If you lav lav chaise sofa bed able to read the magazine online at www.tiffin- service problem, you should call 256-356- purchased a pre-owned Tiffin motorhome, optional motorhomes.com 0261. send the year, brand, length & floorplan, your drawer type dishwasher tv name and address, and VIN to Roughing It A new feature . Change of Address Smoothly, PO Box 1738, Monroe, GA 30655- 60" X 80" queen bed In this issue, RVHealthy joins our list of standard Please use a standard change of address card 1738. Owners who request the magazine re- shelf with hanging rod below shower step columns that bring important information as from USPS and send it to Roughing It Smoothly, ceive Roughing It Smoothly at no charge. washer dryer overhead ohc nightstand nightstand cabinet overhead cabinet booth sofa bed dinette ® ® ® optional tub tv The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road , Phaeton , Allegro , Allegro overhead cabinet ® ® ® ® ® ® ® 4-door fridge Bay , Allegro Bus , Allegro Breeze , Zephyr , Roughing It Smoothly , Pusher , and PowerGlide . overhead cabinet optional tile floor in bedroom eXterior tv PRESIDENT’S CORNER SOLID & DEPENDABLE The Grand Ole Service at TMH by Bob Tiffin When I first started in business in the Fall port closed and the city offered the land of 1972, we were excited about building in five-acre parcels. motorhomes, hiring a new crew, and get- During the eighties we carved out space ting production set up and started. We were for 35 service bays that were located with- Winterested in the design of our new product in the primary plant facility. As you may and how it would look when compared to know, the “airport campground” was over what the competition was building. a mile away. So, on any given weekday, we We knew so little about marketing our would bring 35 motorhomes, 35 tow cars, new product: how should we price our mo- approximately 70 people, and at least 50 torhomes; who would we sell them to; who pets from the campground to the plant. would be our dealers; what states would At 7 a.m. there would be a mad dash from we sell them in. We were concerned if we the campground to the service area in should build the frames with aluminum the main plant on Second Street. We had or steel, or a combination of both. We an average of one accident a day (fender spent a lot of time planning the wiring and benders) with this crowded situation. PURCHASE OR REFINANCE plumbing. We had to select the appliances Since “necessity is the mother of action with APRs* as low as that would go in our new motorhomes.