What's In Store For Road Master Chassis's Now?

[DriVer]

Update:

Roadmaster will continue building the RM Chassis and they have leased space to Workhorse to build the R-Series. There will be 2 separate lines and products coming out of this plant. I will find out more about this later this week while attending the FMCA Convention in Perry, GA.

[DriVer]

There is a rather large 2 page advertising in the May issue of Motorhome magazine on Page 4 and 5 for Roadmaster Chassis.

[chuck4788]

From everything said it appear to only affect Elkhart production. The S chassis are produced in the the same building as the coaches, the other Coburg chassis' are produced in the old SMC Magnum plant in Harrisburg and then transported to Coburg (only a few miles).

The problem with using chassis' produced in Elkhart for Coburg products is transportation costs.

One of the distinguishing things in a high end coaches is the proprietory chassis. I think the IH/Monaco joint venture will focus on expanding the Workhorse market niche rather than replacing the Coburg chassis'.