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Travel Trailer Business

Starting your own travel trailer business initially needs to answer a list of questions like: Would you want to become a travel trailer manufacturer? Would you want to be in travel trailer sales? Would you want to sell new or used trailer; maybe even travel trailers of vintage scale? Would you want to go into travel trailer rental instead? Once these questions are cleared up, you can now safely head on to the direction of your choice.

Travel trailers are one of the most luxurious and most comfortable ways to travel, especially if you are traveling with children or with very frail people.

More and more people are actually using travel trailer campers when they hit the roads. And for anyone in the travel trailer business, this is as lucrative a business as with most auto sales and rental enterprises.

If you want to be in the travel trailer business, you need to first decide what aspect of this business you really want to engage in – and there are a couple of aspects to consider. Would you want to become a travel trailer manufacturer? Would you want to be in travel trailer sales? Would you want to sell new or used trailer; maybe even travel trailers of vintage scale? Would you want to go into travel trailer rental instead?

You must remember that this type of business is rather pricey to begin with and travel trailer dealers have to contend with large costs even before they could launch their own business. This is especially true if you want to become one of the many travel trailer manufacturers in the country. You might want to specialize in one type of trailer production and have it customized according to the clients’ specifications. With this setup, at least, you will be assured that you have a paying customer, before and after the construction of the vehicle.

There are actually many types of travel trailers too. There is the travel trailer lite, also known as the travel trailer lightweight (very compact and usually pulled by a separate vehicle); the travel trailer RVs or RV trailer or travel trailer coachman (motorized camper homes); travel trailer small or travel trailer folding (compact trailers that can be pulled out to afford its riders more space); etc. Needless to say, you need great background in automobile making to succeed in this game.

Travel trailer sale business, on the other hand, works primarily like auto sales, except that you specialize in mobile homes. If you want to engage in this type of business, you would need a lot where you can display your pieces and a great sales pitch to attract and entice potential customers. You would need to contact travel trailer manufacturers and work out a serviceable consignment deal with them. In the case of selling used travel trailers, you need to work out a system where you can acquire cheap but still working used trailers and sell them for a profit.

However, in this time of the World Wide Web, micro-entrepreneurs have actually solved the problem of finding a suitable location to display their wares. Frankly, they don’t. They go to their manufacturers’ lots, take a picture of the coachman or lightweight mobile home that they wish to sell and post it on their websites. They still act as middle men or middle women between client and manufacturer, and still they earn a nice commission after each sale. If you do not have such a lot, you might want to try this instead.

The same goes with travel trailer rentals. There are some coachman owners who wish to rent out their vehicles but do not know how to reach potential clients. Intrepid entrepreneurs, such as yourself, will actually perform the entire Web posting and the lending, while earning a tidy sum in the process. However, there are certain dangers to this. First of all, you need to assure the owner of the coachman that his vehicle will be returned to him or her in the condition it was doled out. Secondly, you need to assure the person lending the vehicle that it will be serviceable and will not cause any major problems.

Both parties will hold you, the middle man, responsible for any problem that ma arise.

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2 Comments

  • jason said on January 21, 2011
    I live in Ontario and would like to enter the travel trailer sales industry. Mainly importing travel trailers from the USA. What is required from provincial and federal gov's? thanks
  • Rajesh Chauhan said on March 24, 2015
    Dear Sir / Madam I am dealer of wholesale Reseller. You do send me wholesale reseller price list & minutes for any countries. As soon possible. Thanks & Regards, Rajesh Chauhan 971563623090

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