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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: suziq on September 29, 2013, 01:15:03 PM
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Hi,
How many wives out there do the towing? My husband of late has been letting me do the driving when we are on our trips as he has found that he has lost his confidence in driving. Has anyone else had this problem & if so is it just a passing thing with age or am I going to be the permanent driver. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Suziq
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My wife wouldn't want to; she doesn't even like to drive the Cruza.
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On long trips we share the driving.
On short trips I drive (mutual decision) and she tells me how to drive and where to go.
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No she wont tow..
she is a good driver but doesnt like using the trailer.
she is a good woman, everytime we go anywhere I drive, doesnt matter where..
but lately I let her drive me little distances. Like in to vote the other week, she drove..
but I generally do all the driving and towing.
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Long trips its shared and depending on shorter trips other half drives...Though any time after 2pm seems to be my leg as he wants to have a drink...unless I have given him heads u[ that I'm not up for doing it all or if its a killer drive over 700km or an off-road area that we both aren't familiar with.
Generally I don't mind towing our camper as its a I can still see it through the back of the Prado and it keeps the back end straight when you hit the odd bull dust, odd occasion reversing it i'm not doing to bad. But overall he knows the moment I don't feel comfortable car gets stopped and its his turn - no arguments.
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Although having said what I said, I had to move 2 cars and campers from darwin to KNX, she drove our car and camper and I drove the other old 4wd, we had one daughter each, and she did very well with that trip..
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I make my wife drive as much as possible with the camper in tow, gives her practice on how to tow it.
She never liked to tow before but ive been on her to learn how to do it just incase of an emergency, my teenage son knows how to hook up the trailer so if im ever out of action they can both tow and hook up, shes even getting better at reversing.
Myself personally cannot sit for long periods so my wife has to take over for trips longer then 2 hours, she understands and is very happy to take control.
You could always pull and injury and make your husband do some driving, or find a way to make it fun for him again.
My grandfather drove everywhere, even 6 weeks after a triple bypass and right up till he passed away.
My uncle on the other had makes my aunty drive everywhere and has basically given up on life and everything to go with it so i know what your saying.
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He does most of the driving/towing (although that may change now we have new 200). I get bored too quickly and he is not a very good navigator. So it works for us with him driving and me nav.
I do all the reversing of camper / boat etc.
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I'm hopeless behind the wheel - after an hour my eyes are already droopy!! My wife knows the signs now so when they come she kicks me out and takes over!
She reverses when hooking up - only because my instructions can be followed whereas hers lead to an argument!!
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On long trips we share the driving.
On short trips I drive (mutual decision) and she tells me how to drive and where to go.
;D ;D ;D
:cheers:
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I do the bulk of the driving but my wife does her share on longer trips. just recently we got caught in thunderstorms and flash flooding heading across the Gunbarrel highway and the missus had the time of her life towing through the mud and the floods.
She has had to tow a couple of times I have been crook or injured, so it's good she knows how!
Reversing the trailer is another story though.
Cheers Andrew
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I tend to do most of the driving, mainly cos I enjoy it.
On long trips we will swap every so often, and she has no problems with towing the CT. It doesn't give me much rest though as I'm a bit of a nervous passenger (read: likes to be in control!!) ;D
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We share drive, makes it safer for us and we can do long distances in a day if required without too much fatigue. Its also handy if one gets sick to have two drivers. A person I knew got very sick the other side of the country and the car and van had to be freighted back at an enormous cost as the wife couldnt tow.
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I mainly do the driving due to Jan having a crook right leg, which is why we now have autos, so if need be Jan can drive.
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I'm hopeless behind the wheel - after an hour my eyes are already droopy!! My wife knows the signs now so when they come she kicks me out and takes over!
She reverses when hooking up - only because my instructions can be followed whereas hers lead to an argument!!
We share drives on long run, swap every 2 hours and makes traveling easy. Wife always reverses when hooking up, no more miss directions and i can push towbar to put pin in. Funny how you change little things but it makes life less stressful.
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I'm the worlds worst passenger so I do all the driving.
I enjoy doing the driving and my wife enjoys being the passenger so that works for us :)
She is allowed to drive when we go out and I 'have' to drink, I'm generous like that but it doesn't improve my passenger skills when I've been drinking ;)
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Elly always does the first shift and reverses back to hook up, but I always park the trailer on site and back at home
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We share the driving on long trips but my partner drives the most. If I am not driving then I am usually reading or asleep which the sleeping part is good if you are doing long trips then you can rest then drive. I will back the trailer and prefer to have assistance outside of the car giving directions if it is a smaller space. Towing it doesn't bother me but I will tow the horse float too so used to that. This works well for us not sure on tips maybe just asking if he can do some short stints in the car so you can get your eyes off the road for 20 mins for a power nap see if that gets the confidence up again.
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I'm the worlds worst passenger so I do all the driving.
I enjoy doing the driving and my wife enjoys being the passenger so that works for us :)
She is allowed to drive when we go out and I 'have' to drink, I'm generous like that but it doesn't improve my passenger skills when I've been drinking ;)
I'am with you on that, i will say it out loud "Her driving scares me".
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On long trips my wife does, we share the driving....
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Lol.. Funny this thread has started cause my wife drove all the way from the national meet back to the Gold Coast today..she did a wonderful job, from now on she can drive everywhere.. ;D
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We work with a system that has been going since the first motor car hit the road........
(or the first time a woman couldn't reverse park)
"Women drivers, no survivors"....... ;D
Bring it on girls, i can take ya's all....... >:D LOL
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Jon usually does the towing, but we share on long trips.
Before I met Jon, I was used to towing a larg 3 horse angle float long distances with my daughters and their horses for comps etc, so towing an Eagle is no real biggie for me. I averaged a couple of trips a week towing horses to lessons, comps etc. Nothing beats towing a stroppy horse around :-[
As an aside, my daughter learnt to do a 3 point turn with the manual landcruiser and horse float on the back before she even had her L's. She also learnt to back the float into it's parking spot. Now she's confident to drive anything!
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My wife is ok at driving, the problem is me I'm a terable passenger, I make her nervous!
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I do most the driving. My wife is good driver and have full confidence in her ability. But I get bored sitting in the passenger seat.
I also made sure she was able to drive for safety reasons.
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When it's the ute with the CT, I drive, but the misso can take over at any time.
But when it comes to her car........ I WOULDN'T EVEN DARE!!!! :-X
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I do most the driving. My wife is good driver and have full confidence in her ability. But I get bored sitting in the passenger seat.
I also made sure she was able to drive for safety reasons.
Pretty much the same but I had to coax the missus to take the wheel towing at first and now she's comfortable on the tar but won't on the dirt unless it was an emergency.
I'd say the difference with blokes is we hoon around in cars as young fellers until the point we either come unstuck or scare ourselves badly and in that sense know the limits of speed and traction on different surfaces, whereas the girls don't generally (it's why more boys are born than girls but the numbers are pretty equal by adulthood)
I've also found the missus is not as spatially aware when it comes to overtaking or judging those wide/oversize trucks coming at us and she'll grip the armrest when I've got it all under control and there's no way she'll overtake anyone while towing but simply slow down behind them.
One thing I did demand (much to her initial strong reluctance) is she learned how to drop the LH wheels off the bitumen and over in the dirt deliberately and steadily and not panic wrenching the wheel back suddenly. First solo and then towing to show her how the vehicle is still very stable with one set of wheels on the tarmac still. Too many rollovers/accidents occur with the inexperienced panicking and overreacting if they drop their wheels off the tarmac shoulder so it's important they practice it and feel comfortable with it. Short of that perhaps we should get our girls to do defensive driving courses where they get to push cars around sideways a bit like we do as boys.
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He drives mostly. It's his car and he has this thing about how I drive ... apparently. ;D
But I get to navigate ... I'm the NavWoman you see ... I get to tell him where to go and when! So we are both happy I guess.
Besides ... how could I take 1,000 photos for my blog if I was driving? :cup:
Kit_e
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I should add she pulls up to change over to drive around town or pull into the servo for fuel and as for backing the rig anywhere, forget it.
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I do all the driving since getting the 4x4 she wont get behind the wheel
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Get him to a GP and an optometrist for a once over, some men don't let you know whats going on with health you may find there is something worrying him that can be fixed easily, I do however share the towing.
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On long trips, we take mutual turns changing every 2 hours.
Ideally, I drive in towns etc since I'm more confident towing in traffic than she is, and she is a better navigator. On the open road, both are happy driving.
Only area that she has been reluctant to tow is with reversing.....
Paul
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I do the bulk of the driving, but SWMBO is more than capable in towing and backing the trailer.
I have not compared towing fuel figures, but she consistently get 1 1/2 litres per 100 better fuel economy in the Landcruiser than what I get.
She drove home from Mildura earlier this week and averaged 11.4 per 100.
I will give her the gig next time we have the camper on and see what the results are.
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I do all the driving while my wife generally sleeps on long trips. I am a bad front seat passenger. I am confident that she could tow without any problems, however I don't think I could trust her to stay awake!
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For a very nervous driver normally, my wife does a great job towing when on long trips.
One of her proudest moments was having the nerve to overtake a 4 trailer road train on the way out to Birdsville.
Her ability and confidence doesn't extend to reversing though.
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Only area that she has been reluctant to tow is with reversing.....
It's interesting that so many women worry about reversing campers / trailers.
When I first learnt to drive, my dad took me with the boat trailer (no boat) and taught me to reverse it around the block in a vacant land subdivision area. It was the best lesson ever - there was no pressure, no audience, no risk of damage and plenty of time to practise. Ever since I have been really comfortable with reversing and it's me that reverses the boat down the ramp or the camper into a spot/garage/driveway etc.
Just remembering some of the simple things like 'turn and follow' and turning the steering wheel towards the side mirror where you see the trailer are good lessons to learn. Once you can do these things confidently you tend to forget the mechanics and do it intuitively. This then makes it harder to teach others, especially your spouse!
My advice to the fellas is to take the time to help your wives/girlfriends to learn the nuts and bolts of reversing by breaking it all down into little steps and in a no pressure, no audience environment. It will help build confidence, reduce stress and prevent WWIII in a caravan park. It will also be important in an emergency situation and is a critical part of knowing how a trailer performs under tow.
Hope this helps.
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I drive for a living so when we go away I'm quite happy for my wife to drive. She is fully capable to do so aswell, she also has a MC license and is quite good behind the wheel when we use to two up every now and then in the truck.
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We share, but I prefer to drive, but back to the OP
My mum has driven everywhere for as long as I can remember and Dad was the passenger and now refuses to drive any long distance or further than the shops. even then if mum was going He would go with her. It is a confidence thing but he also refuses to wear his glasses and as a result I believe he has given up driving over the vanity of wearing glasses the silly old coot..
Mum learnt to drive as a young teenager going over the toowoomba range to pick up and drive backs cars Pop bought for the second hand dealer. When she went in for her license the local cop said, about time you've been driving long enough. He did not cross of anything on her license and was licensed for any bike or truck in Australia until at 60 she gave up her bike licenses
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timely post
my bride asked this question yesterday on the last leg of our trip..........she mentioned she has not seen another chicky babe twing either camper trailers or caravans. must admit i rarely see the girls behind the wheel
my bride typically drives the middle section of the days drive.....we normally stopped of a break mid morning and around 1pm for lunch so maybe three hours max. behind the wheel
a few weeks ago she took the camper to north stradbroke lsland, reversed it into the spot and set up the camper....... :cheers: i turned up three days later
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It's interesting that so many women worry about reversing campers / trailers.
When I first learnt to drive, my dad took me with the boat trailer (no boat) and taught me to reverse it around the block in a vacant land subdivision area. It was the best lesson ever - there was no pressure, no audience, no risk of damage and plenty of time to practise. Ever since I have been really comfortable with reversing and it's me that reverses the boat down the ramp or the camper into a spot/garage/driveway etc.
Just remembering some of the simple things like 'turn and follow' and turning the steering wheel towards the side mirror where you see the trailer are good lessons to learn. Once you can do these things confidently you tend to forget the mechanics and do it intuitively. This then makes it harder to teach others, especially your spouse!
My advice to the fellas is to take the time to help your wives/girlfriends to learn the nuts and bolts of reversing by breaking it all down into little steps and in a no pressure, no audience environment. It will help build confidence, reduce stress and prevent WWIII in a caravan park. It will also be important in an emergency situation and is a critical part of knowing how a trailer performs under tow.
Hope this helps.
Agree.
Before we had horses, I had never even towed a box trailer but I had to learn very quickly as the ex soon lost interest in running kids/horses to Pony Club/comps etc. I learnt to back the float by doing it in stages. First just parked it out the front, next did a circle around the house and then did a quick backup to the shed, then leant to back it straight down the drive into the shed. I did it without an audience, and nutted it out myself - no stress!!!!
Also, necessity it a great motivator. If your partner is unwell etc, sometimes you just HAVE to do it.
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We share the driving when towing or not. Like lots have said LB will not reverse the trailer, and prefers not to drive through towns. I know she could reverse the trailer just as well if not better than me if she would give it a go.
I love driving whereas LB drives to get somewhere.
When I was a kid our neighbours were very funny. He insisted on driving everywhere, they had a huge boat and he wouldn't "trust" his wife to tow it. As soon as it came to reversing the trailer he got out and let her do it. He would be screaming directions, she would be ignoring them and would get it in place first time every time.
Bunyip
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Lol.. Funny this thread has started cause my wife drove all the way from the national meet back to the Gold Coast today..she did a wonderful job, from now on she can drive everywhere.. ;D
are you just saying that because you enjoyed driving my 105 series so much, it'd be hard to go back to driving the 80 now? ;D ;D
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I usually break it up between the 3 of them. One for "offroad", one for "the black stuff" and one to back it in............. >:D
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are you just saying that because you enjoyed driving my 105 series so much, it'd be hard to go back to driving the 80 now? ;D ;D
Lol ;D ;D
No mate. I'll have the 80 any day of the week.. Lol 8)
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I do most of the driving, all of the reversing. She directs when hitching up, but it always involves me getting in and out of the car 100 times. I also seem to be delegated the job of filling up at the petrol station. :D
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I'd rather drive over a cliff myself
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I'd rather drive over a cliff myself
LOL. Have fun with that. Once all us chicks have nailed reversing the camper you might be a bit superfluous to camping trips anyway.
* runs and ducks for cover before war breaks out *
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LOL. Have fun with that. Once all us chicks have nailed reversing the camper <snip>
mankind will be long extinct by then. Most struggle with driving forward.
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Hi Suziq
For us, my wife drives about 1/2 of the highway time and not much of the short trips. She's really good at reversing and will jump behind the wheel to show off.
She claims that she hates the off road work, until she drives and has great fun. Then I don't get to drive for the rest of that day.
Whomever drives is up to each individual. I'm sure you'll work it out.
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I'm the worlds worst passenger so I do all the driving.
I enjoy doing the driving and my wife enjoys being the passenger so that works for us :)
She is allowed to drive when we go out and I 'have' to drink, I'm generous like that but it doesn't improve my passenger skills when I've been drinking ;)
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She can do it, and is ok at it and will try the backward thing too, but then again refer DannyG's post!
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If my wife drove we would have to leave 2 days earlier ;D
but marriage is about sharing so i drive to the party and she drives home :cheers:
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Nice to hear that some ladies share the chores of driving.
Mrs Stozz ... I too was taught by my dad. We had a farm so it was important that we could all drive forward, backward and reverse things ... my first drive was our hay truck ... it was my job to ensure they hay bales got up the elevator ... if they didn't ... dad had to get off and move them ... and I got a ear full ... so I learned where my tyres were early in the piece.
I own a box trailer, but it hasn't moved for a few years. Reversing the trailer just "came back to me" after the first try ... like riding a bike ... or getting bales up that elevator!
It's a skill that I think you should not dismiss! Especially since the chance of being forced to use the skill may very well come up in your adventures if things go horribly wrong. If they ever take my bloke away by RFDS ... I certainly want to be able to pack it up, reverse to it, put it on and know I can get it out to him ASAP. Abandoning the camper and ute would be the very last thing I'd want to do.
Kit_e
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She reverses when hooking up - only because my instructions can be followed whereas hers lead to an argument!!
Same applies in this household
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Same applies in this household
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As for the driving, 99.9% me although my wife has offered a few times to take over. Funnily enough, last time we did a big trip (without camper) & she took over, it bucketed down with rain & I had to hop back in the drivers seat
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We share the driving on long trips, but she can't...or won't, get it through her head that sometimes she needs a lower gear because of the extra weight :-\
And like others, hooking up is straight forward and peaceful when she does the driving and me instructing :)
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My husband does most of the driving when towing the CT (which I'm happy for him to do) but I have done a few trips- recently I drove 6 1/2 hours to 1770 because he had done an all nighter at work and was too tired to drive. I appreciate the fact that he knows when to hand the keys over and he knows I'm a good driver too.
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I am the worse passenger in the world, wife loves to sleep, so I drive, she sleeps. Works for me.
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Mrs Snow usually drives the couple of hrs in the middle of a days tripping. She doesn't like city driving with the camper so I do those bits. I do all the reversing, but the thread reminds me that I need let her have go. Usually when parked I won't unhitch the rig if I don't need to, but if I need to hook up camper the reversing camera alleviates the likelihood of a dust up.
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I am the worse passenger in the world, wife loves to sleep, so I drive, she sleeps. Works for me.
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Even when we drove from Port Augusta to home in one day (12 hours) she only drove 2 hours just before dusk so I could have a power nap.
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I will do most the driving but if driving for over 8 hours I ask the wife to take over as 8 hours is the limit with out a beer.
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I think it might be more useful to the OP for those who were initially reluctant to tow mentioned how they were encouraged to tow, or for their partners to explain how they achieved this outcome.
Perhaps suggesting her husband do short stints, say from one town to the next, or the 'last leg' to a town on a longer stretch, might help ease him back into driving.
Hope all goes well for you in this regard.
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I am the worse passenger in the world, wife loves to sleep, so I drive, she sleeps. Works for me.
I do often say "hey you wanna drive" and she says "not while you're awake" and I say "well I can't sleep while I'm a passenger" and so it goes. She's a very good driver, the problem lies with me...
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We both share but i would say it is a 70 ; 30 split with me doing the majority
We have tried practicing but if there is another camper in sight she will not attempt to reverse the trailer into the spot
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I normally drive everywhere , but have been naughty and lost my licence just before our last trip, my wife towed the caravan with the patrol for 6000 km no trouble.
She is keen for me to get my licence back though.
Shane
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Hubby has driven 80 % of our trip around oz So far but i do offer all the time but he hates being a passenger. I did drive most of the Gibb river road as i also occasionally get bored as passenger too which he forgets. I am ok at trailer reversing but its the age old saying practice makes perfect. Even Hubby says he's not 100 % at trailer reversing but getting better considering its our permanent home at the moment.
After seeing an older lady loose her partner suddenly while they travelled oz where she didn't even have a licence and they were on a highway 100km north of Carnarvon WA, i believe everyone needs to at least know how to hook up and drive in an emergency. This lady had sadly been stuck in Carnarvon for 4 months by the time we met her as no money to put her bus on a truck to east coast, no licence to drive herself (she had never been behind the wheel So had no idea where to start either), and her family couldn't help either $ wise. We managed to pull some strings and get a wonderful company to pick her bus and trailer up and pick up the tab as well as fly her home. Moral of the story, at the very least everyone needs to at least know how to pack up on your own and hook up, even if its only to the nearest town. Doesn't matter if you are not that confident. Just need to know you can do it. If you practice it, obviously the better off you are. If you have kids, teach them how to at least put everything away ready to set off.
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My partner saw my post about her on this and told me she bought a reversing camera cos I said mean things about her :cup: :cup: :cup: ;D ;D ;D
I was very excited, and she let me believe it for sometime before she told me she didn't really :'(
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My partner saw my post about her on this and told me she bought a reversing camera cos I said mean things about her :cup: :cup: :cup: ;D ;D ;D
I was very excited, and she let me believe it for sometime before she told me she didn't really :'(
Bugger we got a reverse camera for the dmax when we ordered canopy as I was sure I would not be able to see much and it is my daily driver then had to cancel canopy order after 7 months of waiting for it to arrive lol
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Bugger we got a reverse camera for the dmax when we ordered canopy as I was sure I would not be able to see much and it is my daily driver then had to cancel canopy order after 7 months of waiting for it to arrive lol
that's also a buggar!
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that's also a buggar!
Yes we will get one eventually.
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I used to do all the driving, but since we now usually take the Boss' car she drives. I'm quite happy in the passenger seat with my six pack for the trip! :cheers:
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My partner saw my post about her on this and told me she bought a reversing camera cos I said mean things about her :cup: :cup: :cup: ;D ;D ;D
On some of our work trucks the reversing camera has a microphone in it so you can hear people talking when you put it in reverse. So when you are backing in somewhere and the person directing you says something like "what is this idiot doing" you can hear them through the radio!
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On some of our work trucks the reversing camera has a microphone in it so you can hear people talking when you put it in reverse. So when you are backing in somewhere and the person directing you says something like "what is this idiot doing" you can hear them through the radio!
hahaha , although maybe to save an argument, being oblivious to those types of comments may be best.
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We both take turns on trips longer than two hours.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZMbTFNp4wI
Cloutys made me do it. :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:
ahahhahahahahahha
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I tend to do most of the driving, mainly cos I enjoy it.
On long trips we will swap every so often, and she has no problems with towing the CT. It doesn't give me much rest though as I'm a bit of a nervous passenger (read: likes to be in control!!) ;D
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LOL!
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When we are towing I do all the driving as my Wife doesn’t feel comfortable towing. I have confidence in her ability and know if I got sick she would drive, but no use pushing her is she isn’t comfortable.
Even when we aren’t towing I do 90% of the driving and that’ just because I like driving and she is happy to be a passenger.
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My wife drives all the time with or without the trailer , i drive for a living so it's a nice change to sit in the passenger seat .
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I'm trying to get my partner to drive my Fourby and tow the camper but she to scared but she tells me she used to drive Fourby yrs ago go figure
Cheers
Chris
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the wife does a little driving on the road with the 9MTR van, however she does most of the "parking" with my instructions.
Funny a guy came up to me the other day in a park and was stunned the wife was reversing and parking the van whilst i was providing instructions via the UHF... (i.e yeah left hand down 2mts back!)...
We seem to have it down pat..
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Mine tried to do the towing but I couldn't find anywhere to attach the hitch, tried welding it to her butt however she can run faster than I ;D ;D ;D
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I tend to do most of the driving, mainly cos I enjoy it.
On long trips we will swap every so often, and she has no problems with towing the CT. It doesn't give me much rest though as I'm a bit of a nervous passenger (read: likes to be in control!!) ;D
That's the wife and I to a tee ;D Erin also deals much better with the kids demands from the back seat than I do when I am passenger.
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I tend to do most of the driving, mainly cos I enjoy it.
On long trips we will swap every so often, and she has no problems with towing the CT. It doesn't give me much rest though as I'm a bit of a nervous passenger (read: likes to be in control!!) ;D
OMG I could have sworn Weso wrote this! Lol I even asked him if the post was his when it showed up quoted by another swagger lol
Back to the topic - I do drive to give him a rest but he is a painful passenger and prefers to do most of the driving himself
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On longer trips we both share the driving.Probs 60 to 40. As for reversing I had my first lesson yesterday in the backyard with camper on , did'nt do too bad if I say so myself.
D and S
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZMbTFNp4wI
Cloutys made me do it. :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:
ahahhahahahahahha
Bwahahahahahahahaha. That's a pisser :cup:
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My wife has done an 11 hour stretch from the Holland track all the way back to Perth when I ended up with a rather bad dose of gastro and she did a bloody brilliant job. She's rather relaxed but told me she was $#!!(%g herself the whole way lol.
Absolute and total faith in her abilities and now i can have a rest when required.
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My wife occasionally drives if I need a rest, but not at all when towing.
Mal
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Mrs scarps as a rule is not the main driver and that's a bit more about confidence in towing than anything.
On this return trip from Bris to Melbourne, I've driven Bris to Sydney and mrs scarps will alternate every 2 hrs between Sydney and Melbourne.
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I tend to do most of the driving, mainly cos I enjoy it.
On long trips we will swap every so often, and she has no problems with towing the CT. It doesn't give me much rest though as I'm a bit of a nervous passenger (read: likes to be in control!!) ;D
Same, except I've learnt to resign myself to my fate so that I can have a nap. I figure I'll either wake up or not. Either way, I won't be stressed.
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My wife, Amy, does ALL the driving , literally. My eyesight is shot, so don't have a licence.
We have done two trips around Aust. (+30.000kms each) lots of remote desert trips, and even OTL. All done with a fully laden Cruiser and camper.
Amy is amazing, and incredibly capable. I am very lucky, and very proud of her.
Thing is, she would have never done it if she didn't have to, but as with anything, practice and doing it has meant she can.
G
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My wife, Amy, does ALL the driving , literally. My eyesight is shot, so don't have a licence.
We have done two trips around Aust. (+30.000kms each) lots of remote desert trips, and even OTL. All done with a fully laden Cruiser and camper.
Amy is amazing, and incredibly capable. I am very lucky, and very proud of her.
Thing is, she would have never done it if she didn't have to, but as with anything, practice and doing it has meant she can.
G
Glen she did a fantastic job on the Cape Trip tackling the OTL.
Mark