As an example, the Patriot Act, can create havoc for some full-time RVers who need loans, secure investments, or to procure new credit cards if they don’t have a permanent physical address. Others may experience unexpected hurdles when purchasing a gun or trying to obtain a concealed weapon permit. Most laws are not intended to create problems for full-time RVers, but due to a sheer lack of knowledge of our unconventional lifestyle, lawmakers can sometimes obstruct our ability to perform necessary functions simply because of the language used when they draft new laws.
Over the decades, Escapees RV Club has taken as strong lead on RV advocacy, working with every level of government to educate politicians and protect the rights of full-time RVers. Often working in conjunction with industry associations and fellow leaders, we continually monitor legislation for detrimental bills and work to oppose laws that threaten the basic constitutional rights of American citizens who have chosen this lifestyle.
Escapees RV Club is purely bipartisan. Even when a detrimental new bill is drafted by a particular party, our educational campaigns always reach across the aisles. Still, there is more to advocacy than defeating detrimental laws or even creating new protective laws. There are the day-to-day habits of every RVer that can enhance or hinder our advocacy role.
As individuals, we can all be key players in the advocacy role by instituting these five habits into our routines.
Advocacy is something that each of us should take a conscious role in if we want to preserve our right to travel across all state lines as often and as freely as we like and still be considered valuable, contributing American citizens. Perhaps most importantly, being courteous and kind is the ultimate habit we should try to master no matter when or where we travel.
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Cathie Carr has been intimately involved in the RV lifestyle for over forty years. She was one of youngest full-time RVers working as she traveled when her parents, Kay and Joe Peterson, launched the Escapees RV Club. She was hired to help with its administration in 1983. Her first major challenge was to create a mail-forwarding service that catered to the specific and unique needs of RVers. Today it is the largest mail-forwarding service for RVers in the nation.
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As fulltime RVers, and Escapees members, we appreciate all of the work you do on our behalf..
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Thank you. That’s very kind.
We need to have something like the lemon law for cars, for RV’s.
Thank you for your post. We continue to pursue lemon laws for RVs; and, we have an on-going discussion with RVIA with that goal in mind.
Beyond the information provided here. I am interested in helping in anyway I can. Thank you for all you do to provide information to all of us!!
Thank you for the offer to help. It’s members like you that make a real difference. From time to time, we do have advocacy issues that require member support. Typically we make those calls-for-action via our newsletters, social media outlets, or via email. As such, I encourage you to monitor those outlets, from time to time.