philh wrote:
sgfrye wrote:
use wife to spot backing in spots also
My wife is one of the most intelligent people I know. Getting her to communicate what I need to do with the trailer, or understand how it gets placed has been... umm challenging. And she wants me to teach her how to back it up.
LOL yep, my wife operates million dollar radiation treatment computers... never can grasp place your hand on the bottom of steering wheel and turn steering wheel the direction you want rear of trailer to go.... or hand on top turn wheel opposite direction you want the rear of trailer to go.
i can back up our pontoon boat trailer perfectly straigt down into water at boat ramp leaving her only maybe 5 feet to back straight for me to launch boat.. she jacknifes 50 percent of time.
all joking aside she is a great navigator and copilot. on longer camping trip commutes she will take a turn driving and give me a break. she just doesn't back up. i explained a long time ago that she needed to be comfortable driving our tow vehicle because something bad could happen to me on a trip and it would be beneficial for her to be able to drive herself home.