Is 70 the age to stop towing

Cloud Dancer wrote:
I loved my job, did not want to retire, my wife made me do it. I drive her around a lot, call her Miss Daisy.

That's too funny!

I'm so ready to retire I could scream, but the kids keep eating and wanting things like clothing and shelter. The truth is, I want to listen to advice of my elders of doing things while "young" and able. I figure every day that goes by, is one day closer to being in a grave.

I loved my job, did not want to retire, my wife made me do it. I drive her around a lot, call her Miss Daisy.

I just read somewhere that the new standard for retirement will likely be bumped up to age 70. It's sounding like some want us Americans to continue working as long as we're still breathing.

For me, as long as safely capable, I will continue to carry, tow or whatever necessary to continue traveling, exploring and enjoying lfe. When it's time to hang-up the keys, call me a taxi.

I have a cousin who is 87 years old. He just left central Illinois on his way to Arizona for a month. Bought himself a new Ford truck and a truck camper. Left with his 84 year old girlfriend. He;ll be driving 4-5 hours a day and then stopping off at a campground for a day or so. He'll stay in Tuscon with my sister for a week then off to revisit some places of his youth.
He tells me after that he's heading up to Alaska. I asked him how far north will be going into Alaska. He replies "How far north can I go?"
He isn't a typical 87 year old, but he is the only guy I know can do it.
Still cutting down trees, splitting wood, making wine, bio diesel for his car, amazing guy.

Driving the highways on the east coast can get tough. May times I have to tow in 3 to 6 lanes, sometimes traffic goes at 65mph sometimes it's 60 to stop & go and back to 60 which will go on for miles and miles. Tough to maintain a safe distance when people are constantly cutting in front you. I'm allways looking for break lights and checking my mirrows. Many trips I'm hitting the tylenol when I pull in...

Mike

Having just passed my 80th birthday, my wife and I have decided it is time to give up towing our trailer when we return home from Texas this spring, and retire it to my son's family campground for use as our "summer place". The problem in not my ability to drive the vehicle safely but the ability to do all the other things necessary for TT travel like hooking up, leveling, loading and unloading etc.

I will definately miss the travel and especially the many friends we have made in our snowbird travels. It has been a long but great ride! :)
Barney

I'm 72, never had a ticket or accident (does a fence post on the other side of black ice count)? So I consider myself a very good driver, I take towing very seriously and pay attention all the time, no phone or texting (don't know how to text very good anyway). Do like to eat the occasional burger while driving and drink a root beer (not at the same time). I hope to be able to tow for many more years. Like Dixie Flyer, I drive way ahead of myself and am always ready for some knucklehead to cross the line, consider every car around me to be a potential accident, use signals and of course, pray.

Next April I will be seventy-seven years old. I have been blind in my left eye for the past ten years. I drive a 2016 F250 Diesel pulling a thirty-eight foot Montana. In the past five years we have been to Montana, New Mexico. Michigan. Ohio and many other places. I have been driving pulling an RV for the past thirty years My wife commented that I was the safest driver she has ever known. I guess it all depends on one's health, driving skills, learning defensive driving skills and the ability to stay alert to all that is going on around you. Always have your mirrors adjusted so as not to have any blind spots and I let my wife help me with navigation in heavy traffic. The minute I see brake lights come on in front of me I start backing off the speed. Never, never look at what is going on in the opposite lanes when there is an accident there. Always stay focused on the road and I always get in one lane and try to stay there.

Range Maggot Bob wrote:

Supercharged wrote:
I think maybe if you drive a motorhome at 70 you are safe, but pulling anything behind it is not safe.

What in the heck has age got to do with it?!!? You can physically handle something or you can't. Again I ask- WHAT HAS AGE GOT TO DO WITH IT?!?

you make a very good point about physically handle or you can't. If you are driving a Rv in the eastern states like Pa. Ny. Ohio and a few others and then if you took your Rv. Out west like Wy. Nb. Tex. Is. Az. Maybe like 70 on all eastern states and a high number out west with open spaces. Sound good to me.

Like I said before, this does not apply to me because I already have decided to keep doing it until I'm 94 years old. I am, and I will be, an excellent and safe driver, so there. And, I'm neither hyper nor supercharged....:B