There was a guy on Reddit recently complaining about how hard it was to keep up with orders for his teardrop trailers. A bunch of people told him he wasn’t charging enough and should raise his prices and use the money to hire someone and also to look for better deals from suppliers (eg, larger orders less frequently).

Link to this guy?

He was unshockingly backlogged six ways to Sunday so if you’re looking for a deal that won’t be it. I can look if you still care.

He's posted to r/DIY a few times I think.

Yeah those look like him.

Those are some very complicated trailers and he’s charging the same or less than simpler ones.

My parents (now ~70yo) ordered an expensive offroad trailer/caravan around the time COVID hit. The regular build time plus delays will put it at almost three years from order to delivery. For people who are not exactly getting more agile each year! I feel for them. They have very limited recourse against the delays also.

They always have been. THey're death traps. Super flimsy.

There’s this notion with many of these solutions that we could rent a few hours from Yellowstone, the parents could get up at the crack of dawn and drive while the kids sleep. Wake up kids, that’s Yellowstone up ahead! But most of these contraptions specifically warn against operating them while occupied. They aren’t built for accidents.

They're basically cut-rate mobile homes on truck chassis.

This vid is a great illustration of both how easy it is to get into an accident, and how much damage even a glancing blow does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRtNajq-Yo

Community has an episode at the end where they trash a camper. It seemed comedy driven at first but the longer I looked at it and campers the more plausible that scene seemed. It’s foam and plywood.

Mercedes writes about all sorts of interesting conversions, like these transit buses.

https://www.theautopian.com/this-1948-gm-old-look-transit-bu...

https://www.theautopian.com/how-a-couple-turned-a-gillig-tra...