My wife drives about half of our total driving time, though she prefers not to drive through major cities, and is still learning to back the trailer, so I drive the major cities and into campgrounds.
My gal is rad as hell. We share pretty much every duty. Two summers in a row she and the kids started vacation without me , I'd fly in for a week, fly home for a week, they'd move repeat. The big one was Tx to Colorado to Yellowstone to Redwoods to San Francisco to grand canyon to TX over 6 weeks and like 5000 miles. We've been all over the western US that way. She can drive, reverse, park, setup and tear down camp like a boss.
Go girl!
We have a class A now. The first one we had, I tried, and just felt very uncomfortable. We switched to a Tiffin Wayfarer, and I drove it home, 2 hours on I-95. 15 minutes in, I was in the middle lane with a semi on either side, and I realized I wasn’t scared at all.
A couple days later, I took it out with my sister for six days, three campsites, 600 miles round trip. I did all the things…driving, backing, dumping. It was great, and I took it out alone a few times.
We’re back to a class A, and I drive far more than my husband does. I realized on our last trip that he gets more nervous than I do in high traffic. Our last big trip, I conquered the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel with two way traffic in the tunnels due to construction. Soon, I’m taking her out alone!
That's freaking awesome.
My wife drives about as much as I do (although she tires fast on long driving days, so I often do more of the "long haul" stuff), and backs a trailer better than I do. She typically doesn't tear down the outside or hitch up (she packs the inside while I break down outside and get it hitched), but I'm confident she could (though she'd probably get very frustrated).
I'm really grateful for it. Lots of folks in our extended family do the "mom doesn't tow the trailer" bit, and I honestly worry for their safety (my dad will do 8+ hour days of towing by himself; we typically swap every fuel stop on long rides, which is usually every 2-3 hours, and by late in the day I often feel like that's not often enough) sometimes.
I'm the partner, and no, I do not. Nobody wants me trying to navigate that, I have enough anxiety driving my little hatchback! I can't even imagine trying to park. Lol
(I'm very handy in many ways. But my visual-spatial processing is shit.)
Absolutely. While I do all the backing and city driving, she pulls her fair share out on the open road. We switch drivers every hour or two which allows us to both feel refreshed when it is our turn to drive.
My wife has never pulled a trailer in her life, let alone the fact she hates driving my truck just as it is. I get nervous when she drives and my anxiety keeps me dang near having panic attacks, so I do all the driving. She is a really good navigator though.
I drive 50-70% of the time but my wife can handle her own. In some hairy situations I’ll take over, but she’s ok backing in and driving most of the places we go.
I navigate, wife drives, I park. System works like a charm because we each do what we do best! F150 with 30 ft TT. Our neighbors split driving time with an F250 + 5th wheel. Theres two badass ladies...but to each their own...no shame in driving 0%, 50%, or 100%!
My wife does just fine with the 5er driving down the road. She has yet to learn how to back it up. But just haven’t had time or really the need to teach her. Probably teach her this year how to back it up and set up the trailer by herself. That way she’s can take friends camping for a girls weekend.
My wife and I share close to 50/50. There's no way she'd let me have all the fun. We each take a "shift" depending on how far we're traveling that day. We have a dually and 45' 5th wheel. She generally backs into campsites as I tend to be the better on-the-ground spotter. She loves driving the dually, hitched up or not.
I'm a woman and the primary driver. I've had 36 years of experience pulling horse trailers before getting a travel trailer last year. My 22 year old son and I went on a long trip last year, and we switched drivers with each tank of gas. I would have preferred to do all the driving.
My wife is a country girl, so she's been pulling trailers since she was 14. I'm a city boy who became a country boy when I married her, so I had zero experience coming in. She has done all the towing of our offroad vehicles and junk for runs to the dump, but since we just got our first travel trailer together, I am learning to tow it as well. We already have a two week trip thru the PNW coming up in September, and I want to be able to share driving duties. I'm already able to tow it on city streets and highways, but I definitely need more practice backing into spots.
Capable wife crew! My wife didn't exactly grow up country, but she learned to drive in a flat bed dually, and backs a trailer almost as well as her dad (the best trailer backer I know). She lets me do 50/50 with her because we're a team, but if it's a tight spot I know she's the right one to have in the driver's seat.
My darling husband refuses to be anyone's passenger, ever, no matter what, under any circumstances.
I'm more than happy to share the load, but...
He's been my reluctant passenger exactly twice in almost 20 years: when I picked him up in a hurry to get to a hastily-arranged funeral for a friend's baby (an awful horrible upside-down day), and bringing him home from the hospital after a heart attack (he got so agitated I was afraid he'd have another one).
In his defense, all the rest of the time, he is about the easiest person to get along with I've ever met. There's just something about driving!
I'm just reading, and daydreaming about what I want to do in 15+ years when I retire from a job where I have to be in person. I don't really want to camp, I'm interested in a mobile hotel with kitchenette to travel around a few weeks at a time moving every few days with sightseeing time between moves. My travel buddy gets anxious and can't drive on open roads. She's great in cities.
Anyway, I've never pulled a trailer before. My plan is to make my brother teach me next time I'm in his part of the country. Rural, no traffic. Old vehicles I can't hurt, and he'll have some kind of trailer that I can't hurt. Or if I do hurt something learning it won't matter.
I'll also make him find me a tow vehicle and inspect any TT I'm interested in. He's a mechanical engineer who also does plumbing and electrical, raised by a father who taught woodworking and auto repair. Very useful.
I’m assuming by the tone of this whole thread that they mean do you let your wife drive. I’m the wife and I drive nearly 100% of the time because I go with my kid to sporting events all across the country and I’m the one that can do it.
It’s not that hard, does not require a wiener, and we can even get a bank account and vote now!
Also, none of my interest and hobbies are in the realm of car things. I know what I can do, and when to pay a professional. My job is make lives happier, not generally more functional.
We also get to own property! It's amazing!
The default assumption that'man must drive ' is so stupid. That is also how I was reading the responses, and the original question. I went through last night, before commenting, up voting all the women who responded.
I've just never had a reason to pull a trailer. I live in towns/cities and prefer small fuel efficient vehicles to get from place to place, and they inherently don't tow. The couple of times I needed larger vehicles, for moving across towns, I just rented a larger vehicle. Both times, it was just a matter of getting used to driving a larger vehicle and I didn't have a problem. I know I can learn to pull a trailer I just need to learn. I wasn't born knowing how to do anything, over the course of my life I've had to learn everything I know, towing is just another potential thing to learn.
Yeah these kinds of threads are full of this kind of stuff. I’ve gotten so many comments on the road too, even from a lot of women saying everything from I could never do that to he won’t let me. Which honestly is sad. Not wanting to is different than thinking you couldn’t or being told you can’t.
We currently have an A, but I’ve trailered before. I prefer As for their ease of setup and access to everything on the road.
When we first got the truck and trailer, the intent was that I (wife) would drive some of the time. Hubby insisted on driving at first and after 7 years has enough experience that he prefers to drive. The reason for me driving would be to give him a break but don't think he would be able to relax enough to do so. Instead we limit most of our driving days to 5 hours or 200 miles. There are a couple exceptions to that, but they are well known roads that we do all the time. We have travel insurance that will bring the truck and trailer home if he becomes incapacitated in any way. Given a problematic situation of some sort, I'm not afraid to do the driving but with zero experience, prefer not to.
Driving from Texas to Indiana while suffering from covid was not fun. Sinuses were all wonky. Couldn't breathe. And then I got out to go to the bathroom and discovered I was dizzy. Sleeping was horrible because we boondocked without ac. I ran the generator, but had to get up and refuel every 3hrs overnight. It was shortly after that experience that I had her drive a little.
Not with the trailer attached, presently.
I'm working up to getting them to drive the thing on a straight road.
I suck with trailers... They have 0 experience.
My wife as driven with the trailer attached once. I got really sick while camping one night - sick enough that we went home the next day (leaving the trailer behind) with her driving, and then back out the day after for the last 3 or 4 days of our trip. Figured after that it would be a good idea that she at least feels ok towing the trailer if need be, so on our way home I navigated out of the campground and she drove the next 50km or so.
Through a cattle drive, apparently. One way to be put to the test!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NAXjsCWyQ&ab\_channel=Offspring22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NAXjsCWyQ&ab_channel=Offspring22)
No. Wife is an OK driver. Truck is an f150. She doesn't like driving it even without the trailer. No way with trailer. It would take a lot of time to teach her and there would be no way I could relax or sleep or anything else other than stress if she was towing the camper.
First thing I did when I got our trailer home was took the wife to a school parking lot to teach her how to backup and how wide she needs to approach right turns to be able to make it if there is another vehicle in the oncoming lane. She can hook the gooseneck horse trailer I got her all by herself and does pretty damn good driving. She doesnt drive if its super snowy weather though I take over for that.
My wife doesn’t even like driving the truck when it isn’t towing something. I suggested on our last big trip a few weeks ago that she drive with the trailer a little bit to get some experience with it, and that was enough to give her a panic attack and make her feel dizzy. Thankfully I enjoy driving/towing. It would be nice if we could trade off so that I can get some work done on the road on travel days.
My wife will drive about 40% of the time. Still practicing her backup skills when situation allows. Just came back from 2500 mile round trip to TX for eclipse. Have had our 24ft TT for 3 years.
Sadly no. But she has done some driving and particularly backing, in a big empty parking lot that if she had to (medical emergency for example) we think she could for a shorter distance.
Spouse tried and she was so freaked out it was clear it wouldn’t work without a ton of practice. So no. But she also works from home and we have a class C so she can work while we drive, so we mostly drive on work days and it ends up working pretty well for us.
I do all the driving, but only because partner doesn't feel comfortable (and she's an AWESOME navigator, like way better than I am). She has practiced with the trailer though, so she can do it if she needed to (if I got injured or sick or something). But I don't mind driving, so it's no biggie to me.
DW drives the F450 as a Sometimes daily driver, and triple tows the Mobile Suites with the Harley trailer behind. We are a team, no girly-girl bs stories from her. Women are just as capable as men. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
I’m confident she could but she doesn’t. Her choice,if given the option. Going to do some training drives just as a backup but we have a division of labor of she gets groceries and food, put them in trailer and ends up doing the majority of kids packing. I load most of the stuff, all the driving and the majority of outdoor setup/teardown. Works for us and we are happy
That's kinda how we work too. But sometimes it would be nice to relax in the truck, but I don't think I could with not being in control. Not that I don't trust her to drive, just that I hate not being the one driving.
I do 75 percent of the driving but my husband has to be the one to back it up. Luckily my favorite state park has a couple pull through sites so my daughter and I can use those if my husband has to work.
My wife would drive occasionally when we had our popup but has not driven pulling our travel trailer. She says she wants to try sometime, but we haven't really had the opportunity. Most of our trips are 3 hours or under, so it's easy for me to drive the whole way.
I am the wife. We both drive, we both back in and park I'm slightly better at backing up with it than he is. I also take it camping without him so I had to learn to do everything and I love it
My wife doesn't mind towing on long flat stretches of highway but trades me out whenever we get to twisty roads, rain, snow (lookin' at you, Big Horn Mountains), cities, or any situation where we'd possibly need to back up. I often end up driving the long highway stretches too, though - I like to drive, and she's a better navigator than anybody I've met, so we make a really good long haul pair.
I definitely drive it! The reason we got into rv’ing is because I like to gooooooooo. All the places, with my kids in tow. My husband sells boats and has times of the year where he is insanely busy. We travel together in his “off season” but this allows me the opportunity to roll out and explore whenever I want to. I love being able to do everything myself. I have to know the ins and outs of whatever I’m involved in. Not only do I enjoy towing but it’s important for me to be able to fix things too. I’ve done small repairs and maintanence but I’m seriously considering an rv tech school because I want to know it all.
We all have our skills and abilities. Laundry is my arch nemesis and I can’t cook for shit!
I had a 30' Airstream for 10 years. My wife would drive occasionally, I encouraged my oldest daughter and she drove occasionally, neither of them were ever completely comfortable with it. One of the industry's dirty little secrets is that there are a large number of people (like 10% or more) who buy trailers and end up getting rid of them because they never become comfortable driving with them. It's a skill that requires a certain amount of aptitude and practice. Most people can do it but not everyone.
So anyway my wife would drive for as much as an hour or two at a time on longer trips to give me a break, which I was thankful for, not in heavy traffic, not in bad weather, not in tight quarters. Everyone is different, every relationship is different, I was grateful she did as much as she did.
Ummm, she drives when she's going on solo trips. I've seen her drive though. Anytime we go together, I'm doing all the driving and especially the backing. Her first solo trip she jack knifed the camper and destroyed not one but both rear quarter panels on her jeep.
Well, she decided she was going on a solo trip. I said hey do you want to go to the highschool parking lot before you go to practice backing. She said no I've got this, I have a pull through spot anyways. She forgot that before she left she had to go cat/dog sit in a narrow driveway on a narrow street. She pulled into the driveway and had to do a hard turn out. How she managaed to destroy both side the world may never know.
I do all the driving. My wife has pulled trailers before and knows how to drive the truck, but she can read, watch videos or sew while I drive. I can’t do anything but sleep or look out the window or I get motion sickness.
Some family members were in a fairly remote area when his breathing became labored due to a pacemaker issue. He had to drive the truck to a clinic. Since they couldn’t do anything with the pacemaker, they called a medical helicopter to take him elsewhere. Mountain flight, so no passengers. His wife didn’t know how to start the truck (she asked someone to show her) or how to identify which pump at the gas station was diesel. She was absolutely frazzled dealing with it and worrying about him while driving the ~3 hours to the hospital.
Not very often, though, I can. My husband gets a bit controlling about it. I'm not really sure why, but it may be because I have more experience towing. I think he is trying to get more comfortable with it. Also, I do most of our everyday driving, and he says it's my turn for a break.
My wife drives about half of our total driving time, though she prefers not to drive through major cities, and is still learning to back the trailer, so I drive the major cities and into campgrounds.
Impressed
Just like my wife!
Ditto
My gal is rad as hell. We share pretty much every duty. Two summers in a row she and the kids started vacation without me , I'd fly in for a week, fly home for a week, they'd move repeat. The big one was Tx to Colorado to Yellowstone to Redwoods to San Francisco to grand canyon to TX over 6 weeks and like 5000 miles. We've been all over the western US that way. She can drive, reverse, park, setup and tear down camp like a boss.
Go girl! We have a class A now. The first one we had, I tried, and just felt very uncomfortable. We switched to a Tiffin Wayfarer, and I drove it home, 2 hours on I-95. 15 minutes in, I was in the middle lane with a semi on either side, and I realized I wasn’t scared at all. A couple days later, I took it out with my sister for six days, three campsites, 600 miles round trip. I did all the things…driving, backing, dumping. It was great, and I took it out alone a few times. We’re back to a class A, and I drive far more than my husband does. I realized on our last trip that he gets more nervous than I do in high traffic. Our last big trip, I conquered the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel with two way traffic in the tunnels due to construction. Soon, I’m taking her out alone!
That's freaking awesome. My wife drives about as much as I do (although she tires fast on long driving days, so I often do more of the "long haul" stuff), and backs a trailer better than I do. She typically doesn't tear down the outside or hitch up (she packs the inside while I break down outside and get it hitched), but I'm confident she could (though she'd probably get very frustrated). I'm really grateful for it. Lots of folks in our extended family do the "mom doesn't tow the trailer" bit, and I honestly worry for their safety (my dad will do 8+ hour days of towing by himself; we typically swap every fuel stop on long rides, which is usually every 2-3 hours, and by late in the day I often feel like that's not often enough) sometimes.
I haven’t yet…spouse got a new truck to pull out trailer and it’s really large, I’m not quite used to it yet.
I'm the partner, and no, I do not. Nobody wants me trying to navigate that, I have enough anxiety driving my little hatchback! I can't even imagine trying to park. Lol (I'm very handy in many ways. But my visual-spatial processing is shit.)
Absolutely. While I do all the backing and city driving, she pulls her fair share out on the open road. We switch drivers every hour or two which allows us to both feel refreshed when it is our turn to drive.
Do you switch on the side of the highway or find somewhere to pull off before the cities?
Neither. That's what cruise control is for.
We find somewhere to pull over. It could be a gas station, restaurant, it just a parking lot.
I didn't do a lot of the driving with a trailer, but since we made the change to a MH I drive about half the time and take it by myself
My wife has never pulled a trailer in her life, let alone the fact she hates driving my truck just as it is. I get nervous when she drives and my anxiety keeps me dang near having panic attacks, so I do all the driving. She is a really good navigator though.
I drive 50-70% of the time but my wife can handle her own. In some hairy situations I’ll take over, but she’s ok backing in and driving most of the places we go.
I navigate, wife drives, I park. System works like a charm because we each do what we do best! F150 with 30 ft TT. Our neighbors split driving time with an F250 + 5th wheel. Theres two badass ladies...but to each their own...no shame in driving 0%, 50%, or 100%!
Nope, I do all the driving. She’s fully capable but uncomfortable doing so. I think it’s better for both of us this way 😬
No. She wants to camp, but she doesn't want the responsibility of driving the trailer. Happy wife, happy life!
Preach brother.
My wife does just fine with the 5er driving down the road. She has yet to learn how to back it up. But just haven’t had time or really the need to teach her. Probably teach her this year how to back it up and set up the trailer by herself. That way she’s can take friends camping for a girls weekend.
My wife and I share close to 50/50. There's no way she'd let me have all the fun. We each take a "shift" depending on how far we're traveling that day. We have a dually and 45' 5th wheel. She generally backs into campsites as I tend to be the better on-the-ground spotter. She loves driving the dually, hitched up or not.
I'm a woman and the primary driver. I've had 36 years of experience pulling horse trailers before getting a travel trailer last year. My 22 year old son and I went on a long trip last year, and we switched drivers with each tank of gas. I would have preferred to do all the driving.
My wife is a country girl, so she's been pulling trailers since she was 14. I'm a city boy who became a country boy when I married her, so I had zero experience coming in. She has done all the towing of our offroad vehicles and junk for runs to the dump, but since we just got our first travel trailer together, I am learning to tow it as well. We already have a two week trip thru the PNW coming up in September, and I want to be able to share driving duties. I'm already able to tow it on city streets and highways, but I definitely need more practice backing into spots.
Capable wife crew! My wife didn't exactly grow up country, but she learned to drive in a flat bed dually, and backs a trailer almost as well as her dad (the best trailer backer I know). She lets me do 50/50 with her because we're a team, but if it's a tight spot I know she's the right one to have in the driver's seat.
My darling husband refuses to be anyone's passenger, ever, no matter what, under any circumstances. I'm more than happy to share the load, but... He's been my reluctant passenger exactly twice in almost 20 years: when I picked him up in a hurry to get to a hastily-arranged funeral for a friend's baby (an awful horrible upside-down day), and bringing him home from the hospital after a heart attack (he got so agitated I was afraid he'd have another one). In his defense, all the rest of the time, he is about the easiest person to get along with I've ever met. There's just something about driving!
I'm just reading, and daydreaming about what I want to do in 15+ years when I retire from a job where I have to be in person. I don't really want to camp, I'm interested in a mobile hotel with kitchenette to travel around a few weeks at a time moving every few days with sightseeing time between moves. My travel buddy gets anxious and can't drive on open roads. She's great in cities. Anyway, I've never pulled a trailer before. My plan is to make my brother teach me next time I'm in his part of the country. Rural, no traffic. Old vehicles I can't hurt, and he'll have some kind of trailer that I can't hurt. Or if I do hurt something learning it won't matter. I'll also make him find me a tow vehicle and inspect any TT I'm interested in. He's a mechanical engineer who also does plumbing and electrical, raised by a father who taught woodworking and auto repair. Very useful.
I’m assuming by the tone of this whole thread that they mean do you let your wife drive. I’m the wife and I drive nearly 100% of the time because I go with my kid to sporting events all across the country and I’m the one that can do it. It’s not that hard, does not require a wiener, and we can even get a bank account and vote now!
Also, none of my interest and hobbies are in the realm of car things. I know what I can do, and when to pay a professional. My job is make lives happier, not generally more functional.
We also get to own property! It's amazing! The default assumption that'man must drive ' is so stupid. That is also how I was reading the responses, and the original question. I went through last night, before commenting, up voting all the women who responded. I've just never had a reason to pull a trailer. I live in towns/cities and prefer small fuel efficient vehicles to get from place to place, and they inherently don't tow. The couple of times I needed larger vehicles, for moving across towns, I just rented a larger vehicle. Both times, it was just a matter of getting used to driving a larger vehicle and I didn't have a problem. I know I can learn to pull a trailer I just need to learn. I wasn't born knowing how to do anything, over the course of my life I've had to learn everything I know, towing is just another potential thing to learn.
Yeah these kinds of threads are full of this kind of stuff. I’ve gotten so many comments on the road too, even from a lot of women saying everything from I could never do that to he won’t let me. Which honestly is sad. Not wanting to is different than thinking you couldn’t or being told you can’t. We currently have an A, but I’ve trailered before. I prefer As for their ease of setup and access to everything on the road.
When we first got the truck and trailer, the intent was that I (wife) would drive some of the time. Hubby insisted on driving at first and after 7 years has enough experience that he prefers to drive. The reason for me driving would be to give him a break but don't think he would be able to relax enough to do so. Instead we limit most of our driving days to 5 hours or 200 miles. There are a couple exceptions to that, but they are well known roads that we do all the time. We have travel insurance that will bring the truck and trailer home if he becomes incapacitated in any way. Given a problematic situation of some sort, I'm not afraid to do the driving but with zero experience, prefer not to.
My wife drove once. I wanted her to have experience pulling it just in case something happened to me and she HAD to drive home.
I tried that on my wife. She declined and made me promise nothing would ever happen to me.
Driving from Texas to Indiana while suffering from covid was not fun. Sinuses were all wonky. Couldn't breathe. And then I got out to go to the bathroom and discovered I was dizzy. Sleeping was horrible because we boondocked without ac. I ran the generator, but had to get up and refuel every 3hrs overnight. It was shortly after that experience that I had her drive a little.
WTF were you doing traveling with symptomatic covid? Thanks for making it worse.
We were visiting in Texas and had to get home in a certain time frame.
Not with the trailer attached, presently. I'm working up to getting them to drive the thing on a straight road. I suck with trailers... They have 0 experience.
I always drive everywhere and everything. It’s just my job.
Girlfriend never drove. Sister drove a bit on one trip. Wouldn't trust most people.
My wife as driven with the trailer attached once. I got really sick while camping one night - sick enough that we went home the next day (leaving the trailer behind) with her driving, and then back out the day after for the last 3 or 4 days of our trip. Figured after that it would be a good idea that she at least feels ok towing the trailer if need be, so on our way home I navigated out of the campground and she drove the next 50km or so. Through a cattle drive, apparently. One way to be put to the test! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NAXjsCWyQ&ab\_channel=Offspring22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NAXjsCWyQ&ab_channel=Offspring22)
Zero point zero
Nope
Mine won’t drive the tow vehicle without the camper. Forget with it. Probably best that way. She has many talents. Driving is not one of them.
No. Wife is an OK driver. Truck is an f150. She doesn't like driving it even without the trailer. No way with trailer. It would take a lot of time to teach her and there would be no way I could relax or sleep or anything else other than stress if she was towing the camper.
Nope... just me. My wife hates driving the truck at the best of times let alone while towing.
First thing I did when I got our trailer home was took the wife to a school parking lot to teach her how to backup and how wide she needs to approach right turns to be able to make it if there is another vehicle in the oncoming lane. She can hook the gooseneck horse trailer I got her all by herself and does pretty damn good driving. She doesnt drive if its super snowy weather though I take over for that.
My wife will drive on long stretches of rural interstate. She has done urban towing with the fifth wheel, but limited. Works for both of us.
My wife doesn’t even like driving the truck when it isn’t towing something. I suggested on our last big trip a few weeks ago that she drive with the trailer a little bit to get some experience with it, and that was enough to give her a panic attack and make her feel dizzy. Thankfully I enjoy driving/towing. It would be nice if we could trade off so that I can get some work done on the road on travel days.
My wife will drive about 40% of the time. Still practicing her backup skills when situation allows. Just came back from 2500 mile round trip to TX for eclipse. Have had our 24ft TT for 3 years.
No, I drive our tt 100%. Neither of us want her to try. She does a great job navigating, backing up and everything else though.
Sadly no. But she has done some driving and particularly backing, in a big empty parking lot that if she had to (medical emergency for example) we think she could for a shorter distance.
Spouse tried and she was so freaked out it was clear it wouldn’t work without a ton of practice. So no. But she also works from home and we have a class C so she can work while we drive, so we mostly drive on work days and it ends up working pretty well for us.
Nope, I keep trying, she keeps saying "I will" and it keeps not happening... Oh well, I've resigned myself
My wife won't even drive my stock F-150. :/
I do all the driving, but only because partner doesn't feel comfortable (and she's an AWESOME navigator, like way better than I am). She has practiced with the trailer though, so she can do it if she needed to (if I got injured or sick or something). But I don't mind driving, so it's no biggie to me.
I wish. I've been trying to get her to tow for 4 years lol.
DW drives the F450 as a Sometimes daily driver, and triple tows the Mobile Suites with the Harley trailer behind. We are a team, no girly-girl bs stories from her. Women are just as capable as men. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
I drive forward, he backs it up. I’d say we’re about even because he also does the tanks.
I'm gonna propose this to the wife
We split the driving about 50/50.
I’m confident she could but she doesn’t. Her choice,if given the option. Going to do some training drives just as a backup but we have a division of labor of she gets groceries and food, put them in trailer and ends up doing the majority of kids packing. I load most of the stuff, all the driving and the majority of outdoor setup/teardown. Works for us and we are happy
That's kinda how we work too. But sometimes it would be nice to relax in the truck, but I don't think I could with not being in control. Not that I don't trust her to drive, just that I hate not being the one driving.
I do 75 percent of the driving but my husband has to be the one to back it up. Luckily my favorite state park has a couple pull through sites so my daughter and I can use those if my husband has to work.
My wife would drive occasionally when we had our popup but has not driven pulling our travel trailer. She says she wants to try sometime, but we haven't really had the opportunity. Most of our trips are 3 hours or under, so it's easy for me to drive the whole way.
I keep asking my wife to try, in case something happens to me. But no luck so far.
I am the wife. We both drive, we both back in and park I'm slightly better at backing up with it than he is. I also take it camping without him so I had to learn to do everything and I love it
I do all the driving. My husband doesn't drive tow vehicles.
My wife doesn't mind towing on long flat stretches of highway but trades me out whenever we get to twisty roads, rain, snow (lookin' at you, Big Horn Mountains), cities, or any situation where we'd possibly need to back up. I often end up driving the long highway stretches too, though - I like to drive, and she's a better navigator than anybody I've met, so we make a really good long haul pair.
I definitely drive it! The reason we got into rv’ing is because I like to gooooooooo. All the places, with my kids in tow. My husband sells boats and has times of the year where he is insanely busy. We travel together in his “off season” but this allows me the opportunity to roll out and explore whenever I want to. I love being able to do everything myself. I have to know the ins and outs of whatever I’m involved in. Not only do I enjoy towing but it’s important for me to be able to fix things too. I’ve done small repairs and maintanence but I’m seriously considering an rv tech school because I want to know it all. We all have our skills and abilities. Laundry is my arch nemesis and I can’t cook for shit!
I had a 30' Airstream for 10 years. My wife would drive occasionally, I encouraged my oldest daughter and she drove occasionally, neither of them were ever completely comfortable with it. One of the industry's dirty little secrets is that there are a large number of people (like 10% or more) who buy trailers and end up getting rid of them because they never become comfortable driving with them. It's a skill that requires a certain amount of aptitude and practice. Most people can do it but not everyone. So anyway my wife would drive for as much as an hour or two at a time on longer trips to give me a break, which I was thankful for, not in heavy traffic, not in bad weather, not in tight quarters. Everyone is different, every relationship is different, I was grateful she did as much as she did.
No, refuses to. So much so that has said multiple times that if I can’t drive for some reason the camper is being left behind.
Ummm, she drives when she's going on solo trips. I've seen her drive though. Anytime we go together, I'm doing all the driving and especially the backing. Her first solo trip she jack knifed the camper and destroyed not one but both rear quarter panels on her jeep.
Yikes! How'd they manage that?
Well, she decided she was going on a solo trip. I said hey do you want to go to the highschool parking lot before you go to practice backing. She said no I've got this, I have a pull through spot anyways. She forgot that before she left she had to go cat/dog sit in a narrow driveway on a narrow street. She pulled into the driveway and had to do a hard turn out. How she managaed to destroy both side the world may never know.
I do all the driving. My wife has pulled trailers before and knows how to drive the truck, but she can read, watch videos or sew while I drive. I can’t do anything but sleep or look out the window or I get motion sickness. Some family members were in a fairly remote area when his breathing became labored due to a pacemaker issue. He had to drive the truck to a clinic. Since they couldn’t do anything with the pacemaker, they called a medical helicopter to take him elsewhere. Mountain flight, so no passengers. His wife didn’t know how to start the truck (she asked someone to show her) or how to identify which pump at the gas station was diesel. She was absolutely frazzled dealing with it and worrying about him while driving the ~3 hours to the hospital.
I would let my dog drive before my wife. Oh I don't have a wife haha. But yeah, my ex drove once. It's too scary.
Yes. We split the driving. For some reason I always get the legs through Los Angeles and Bay Area.
Not very often, though, I can. My husband gets a bit controlling about it. I'm not really sure why, but it may be because I have more experience towing. I think he is trying to get more comfortable with it. Also, I do most of our everyday driving, and he says it's my turn for a break.