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Trailer manufacturers see Haiti's disaster as an opportunity to unload used FEMA trailers that threaten to create a glut of cheap, used trailers on the U.S. market.
Lobbyists for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association have been talking to members of Congress and disaster relief agencies to see if the trailers, which are being sold in large lots through on-line government auctions, could go to the stricken island nation instead.
But even though last month's powerful earthquake left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, America's castoff FEMA trailers are not the solution to the problem.