does your Wife/Female tow?

[Beachman]

Mine doesn’t only because she doesn’t feel comfortable towing a trailer, but if something happened to me I know she would step up and take over the driving duties.

But anything that required reversing, just wouldn’t happen.

[Fun Police]

Mine won't tow or back . Struggles to drive a manual too, so that makes it even harder.

It's just practice, that's all.

She won't even camel toe either

[Diver]

I do most of the driving on short trips but share on longer trips.  Due to a family sickness we left Coral Bay about 1200k north of Perth at 4pm and drove through the night towing a 2 ton boat.  Wife drove from about 1am - 4am.

I do most of the reversing and hook ups although wife is now doing some reversing as the treg is pia. 

For some reason my reversing into the camp site prior to unhitching is always out by 5cm according to her

[Patr80l]

Mine doesn’t only because she doesn’t feel comfortable towing a trailer, but if something happened to me I know she would step up and take over the driving duties.

But anything that required reversing, just wouldn’t happen.

Jokes about camels aside, mine shares the driving equally but hasn't had any practice at reversing.
I think it's important that they have a go and gain experience and skill so they will be comfortable to take over in an emergency.   You don't want the first time she drives in the bush to be at night on a twisty mountain road when adrenaline is rushing through her veins and snake venom is rushing through yours.

[Pipeliner]

My wife shares the driving 50-50 when on a trip towing the camper - she is uncertain when reversing but will do it if absolutely necessary (i.e. if I'm not there!).  When hitching up it's usually she who reverses up to the hitch as I direct her.

[Nay-DMAX]

I am more than happy to tow any of our trailers and the horse float, normal tow ball hitch I have no problems hitching and unhitching including jockey wheel whether it be fold up or remove.  I will reverse any of these sometimes this takes me longer than others.  I will always have a go at hitching or unhitching the camper but I do have some trouble getting the bolt through far enough to get the pin in.  Before I had my license I used to practice backing the horse float at home through a gate way not much wider than the float taught you a lot about how far you need to turn and how to get the trailer to go where you want it to.  I say just give it a go and practice it doesn't really matter how long it takes you or how many times you have to go forwards again if you are not holding anyone up.  Go somewhere that there is a bit of space and practice.

[mrsfirefox]

I completely agree with Nay-DMAX, you need to go to a place with plenty of space and just practice hitching and unhitching, towing and reversing.  There are caravan towing courses available in a number of areas if you google it,  especially if you feel better not having hubby yell at teach you.  Seriously though, I believe it's very important that you wife knows how to tow the trailer in case something happens to you.  On our travels, we've seen a number of women who've been either stranded for a period of time or other people have had to disrupt their travels or work time to help transport the vans when something unfortunate has happened to their usual driving partners.  The women mostly say that they wished they had learnt how to transport before xyz happened.

I hitch and unhitch the trailer as well as tow and reverse our 9 metre caravan.  It's usually me reversing the van into sites while Firefox stands outside and directs as he likes to get it fairly level before unhitching.  Firefox has a handheld UHF that he directs me with "right hand down", "straighten up", "smidge back", etc and that works for us very well.   Most of all, if hubby is going to ask wife to learn, he must be very patient until she gets her confidence up.   Good luck!!

[Socks]

I do. I generally reverse the car into the camper while Weso does the hitching. I also drive while the camper is attached. I haven't really learnt to reverse with it in yet, but can and do reverse straight back while we are setting up. Need to learn how to turn while reversing. I think your wife should - firstly why should you do it all and secondly what happens if something happens to you. She is left stranded and helpless.


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[rochelle]

yep i sure do, i go on trips on my own also so i need to know how to do it,
also very important if you do to "out of the way" places, you just never can predict what can happen,
and i love the fact that i can do it, i reverse better than some men i know :-)
rochelle

[Bunyip]

Reversing is not about strength, height or any other physical attribute, so why shouldn't women be just as good if not better?

i reverse better than some men i know :-)
rochelle

Does not surprise me. We had a neighbor when I was a young kid and the wife had to reverse the boat into the driveway. It was a very narrow street, the driveway sloped down and the spot where they put the boat was narrow and on an awkward angle.

He would get frustrated, exagerate the turn and use to much of the loud pedal. She took her time, was nice and smooth in the wheel  movements and almost never had to pull forward to correct.

I think women are much more patient and if they took the time to learn would be better at reversing trailers. If only LB would give it a go.

Bunyip