DW and backing up
DW has been towing trailers (boat, TT, utility) for nearly forty years. She is an excellent driver and has towed tens of thousands of miles across the USA and Canada in every terrain and weather condi...
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jfkmk wrote:
At least your DW tows the tt forward! My wife refuses to tow the camper at all. Loves camping, just won't drive with anything attached to the hitch.
Ditto my wife. But she can't back the car even with no trailer. Drives forward, no problem. Backward is a disaster. Can't spot to save her life. Insists on standing where I can't see her, and should I by chance catch sight of her, she's waving her arms all over in ways I didn't know they could wave and that make no sense. And that's in spite of every attempt to say "stand HERE, just point in the direction the back end has to go." Lasts maybe 5 seconds and she's back directly behind and waving incoherently. Backing up herself, without trailer? She can barely manage to back out of a parking place. Ask her to back more than a car length and fenders are at serious risk. Her dad taught her to drive, and drove him nuts. He had to make her gloves with a huge "L" and "R" on the backs, and he took her out to a gravel county road nobody ever used but wide to try to back for miles. She used the entire width and needed hours to go a mile. When I first met him, the first words out of his mouth were "don't let her back your car."
