Key Takeaways
- •RV Tech Week runs June 1 through 5 across North America, recognizing service technicians in dealerships, campgrounds, and repair facilities
- •This year's theme — "27 Skills. One RV Tech. Every Adventure." — reflects how complex modern RV systems have become
- •The same technician shortage hitting dealerships is running through campground maintenance departments. Peak season is here. Now is the time to find the gaps.
RV Tech Week runs through Friday across North America.
The annual campaign, organized by the RV Technical Institute, recognizes service technicians at dealerships, manufacturers, campgrounds, and independent repair facilities. This year's theme — "27 Skills. One RV Tech. Every Adventure." — reflects a straightforward reality: modern RVs are not simple machines, and the people who service them are carrying a broader skill set than the industry has historically acknowledged or paid for.
For campground operators, the week is a useful prompt.
The Skills Gap Is Your Problem Too
The 27 skills RVTI references span electrical systems, plumbing, propane, appliances, slide-out mechanisms, HVAC, and an increasingly complex layer of digital and connectivity infrastructure built into newer units. That's the diagnostic profile of a modern RV tech at a dealership.
Your maintenance staff faces the same systems every time a guest has a problem at your pedestal, your sewer hookup, or your water connection. The gap between what parks need on the maintenance side and what the available labor pool can actually deliver is real and widening as older RVs age out and newer, more complex units replace them.
Campgrounds that engage publicly with RV Tech Week — a social post, a shoutout to their own maintenance crew — build goodwill in exactly the community they need to recruit from. Technicians talk to each other. A park that visibly respects the trade is a park worth working at.
What It Means
Run a quick internal audit this week. Who on your maintenance staff can handle a 50-amp electrical issue? A propane problem? A slide-out that won't retract? If the answer is one person and that person calls in sick, you have a single point of failure heading into the busiest stretch of the year. RV Tech Week is a good reason to think about that before it becomes a guest complaint.
Source: RVTI — RV Tech Week 2026