the biggest problem with many of the wobble box brigade is ignorance . they don’t get the balance right , the number of them with the car sitting with the nose in the air like a speedboat is worrying . they don’t seem aware that there is a weight specification for the hitch , tail heavy and the tail wags the dog , nose heavy makes the steering too light . not much different to loading a trailer properly . things will probably improve when the grandad rights expire and everyone without an lgv license will take a towing test , but that’s a long way off .
rigsby:
the biggest problem with many of the wobble box brigade is ignorance . they don’t get the balance right , the number of them with the car sitting with the nose in the air like a speedboat is worrying . they don’t seem aware that there is a weight specification for the hitch , tail heavy and the tail wags the dog , nose heavy makes the steering too light . not much different to loading a trailer properly . things will probably improve when the grandad rights expire and everyone without an lgv license will take a towing test , but that’s a long way off .
Possession of an LGV licence certainly won’t be a guarantee of improved driving standards.
rigsby:
the biggest problem with many of the wobble box brigade is ignorance . they don’t get the balance right , the number of them with the car sitting with the nose in the air like a speedboat is worrying . they don’t seem aware that there is a weight specification for the hitch , tail heavy and the tail wags the dog , nose heavy makes the steering too light . not much different to loading a trailer properly . things will probably improve when the grandad rights expire and everyone without an lgv license will take a towing test , but that’s a long way off .
I have a little device that weighs the nose of the van and it needs to be about 70-80 kgs and i pretty much know what goes where in the van to achieve this and most things need to go towards the rear of the van and i’m convinced some people don’t do this.
rigsby:
the biggest problem with many of the wobble box brigade is ignorance . they don’t get the balance right , the number of them with the car sitting with the nose in the air like a speedboat is worrying . they don’t seem aware that there is a weight specification for the hitch , tail heavy and the tail wags the dog , nose heavy makes the steering too light . not much different to loading a trailer properly . things will probably improve when the grandad rights expire and everyone without an lgv license will take a towing test , but that’s a long way off .
When I got my HGV license 25 years ago, I passed the test on the road and a few driving exercises at the test centre including reversing and braking, BUT nobody has ever taught me ‘officially’ to balance loads out, the correct use of straps, how to rope and sheet and a whole plethora of other stuff. The same is probably true of most HGV drivers - we all learnt those things with experience and perhaps with a bit of helpful input from other truck drivers along the way. I regularly see badly loaded trucks on the motorways, but that just down to individuals not having knowledge, or not being bothered, yet they are supposed to be ‘professional’ drivers. 
Yep you get the odd numpty towing a caravan, same as you get numpty truck drivers, numpty bike riders and even numpty pedestrians. Like Bald Bloke I also check the noseweight with a specialist gauge, as do lots of other caravan owners. Surprisingly I want a stable tow and to get there in one piece. 
Caravan Club recommends a nose weight of abt 50 kg but bad loading by the newbies is a big factor in wobble box disasters, and as for these ■■■■ motormovers, if you cant drive a caravan backwards you shouldn’t be allowed to drive one forwards IMO.
Specialist weighing device 
ordinary household scales from the bathroom with a block of would under the towing hitch 
If I see a caravan over taking me I tend to knock a click or two off to let them past.
I can control my own vehicle. No idea what they will do so I let them past to get away from me.
As a caravanner myself I found it bemusing when I see folks plodding along in amongst the lorries at between 50 to 56 mph, I tend to stick c/c on about 62 mph which in reality is probably about 60 and pass at a comfortable speed. This to me just makes me more relaxed.
Radar19:
If they park in the HGV parking bit then I will just park in front of them.
Just make sure he isn’t a big basart
hiabman:
eagerbeaver:
Ive just been talking to a fella who is looking forward to the next bank holiday,because he is going to his caravan in North Wales.
He tells me that its a ’ static ’ caravan,and he pays £3800.00 per year to have it at this particular site.I cant quite work out who is more insane. The person who connects their vehicle to a fibreglass potty shed,and takes it to chavsville,or the person who has a larger plywood version, who pays to have it in chavsville all year round??
Theres no shame in not being able to afford a proper holiday.
Blimey.
What a judgemental dimwit.
(Static) Caravan dwellers aren’t chavs. Such a viewpoint suggests a narrow mind and a delusion of grandeur.
Buck up.
They are odd though. I know of people who holiday in Ingoldmells. I’d rather stay at home than spend a week slumming it at a trailer park. The only thing worse would be holidaying in Yorkshire with all the Bennys.
bald bloke:
As a caravanner myself I found it bemusing when I see folks plodding along in amongst the lorries at between 50 to 56 mph, I tend to stick c/c on about 62 mph which in reality is probably about 60 and pass at a comfortable speed. This to me just makes me more relaxed.
+1
bald bloke:
As a caravanner myself I found it bemusing when I see folks plodding along in amongst the lorries at between 50 to 56 mph, I tend to stick c/c on about 62 mph which in reality is probably about 60 and pass at a comfortable speed. This to me just makes me more relaxed.
Stick a big BM on the front, foot down and give cause to wobble a few artics, git yer own back 
raymundo:
bald bloke:
As a caravanner myself I found it bemusing when I see folks plodding along in amongst the lorries at between 50 to 56 mph, I tend to stick c/c on about 62 mph which in reality is probably about 60 and pass at a comfortable speed. This to me just makes me more relaxed.Stick a big BM on the front, foot down and give cause to wobble a few artics, git yer own back
Yeah what I could do is just as I’m about to pull in after overtaking a wagon make the van wobble a bit and see how white the driver turns. 
Tris:
They are odd though. I know of people who holiday in Ingoldmells. I’d rather stay at home than spend a week slumming it at a trailer park. The only thing worse would be holidaying in Yorkshire with all the Bennys.
Funny thing is though, how many truckers accept dossing in a truck cab, in a rubbish strewn layby that stinks of stale urine?
My caravan has a toilet, shower and wash basin so I can leave it in the morning all clean and smelling sweet. How many trucks have all these luxuries?
LIBERTY_GUY:
Funny thing is though, how many truckers accept dossing in a truck cab, in a rubbish strewn layby that stinks of stale urine?
Hmm a very good point. How many of the very drivers who slag off people who holiday in caravans will spend 5 days a week,40 odd weeks a year living in a cramped little shiny tin box?
My wife and I have a static caravan we use when ever we feel like it. Peace,quiet and tranquility. Each to their own about what they prefer holiday wise but neither of us would swap our caravan to
go to somewhere full of ■■■■■■ up Mancs in England tops who get louder every day and are so busy “enjoying” themselves by drinking non stop that they cant see/dont care that they are ruining
everyone elses holidays
eagerbeaver:
Ive just been talking to a fella who is looking forward to the next bank holiday,because he is going to his caravan in North Wales.
He tells me that its a ’ static ’ caravan,and he pays £3800.00 per year to have it at this particular site.I cant quite work out who is more insane. The person who connects their vehicle to a fibreglass potty shed,and takes it to chavsville,or the person who has a larger plywood version, who pays to have it in chavsville all year round??
Theres no shame in not being able to afford a proper holiday.
that’s actually a good point,for £3800 a year you could afford a good holiday abroad and more
Why would I want to pull a caravan on my days off when I pull a trailer 5 days a week?
Nope, it’s hop on a plane for me, we’ve got 1 holiday planned already (2 weeks in Helsinki) and another to somewhere else in September
truckman020:
eagerbeaver:
Ive just been talking to a fella who is looking forward to the next bank holiday,because he is going to his caravan in North Wales.
He tells me that its a ’ static ’ caravan,and he pays £3800.00 per year to have it at this particular site.I cant quite work out who is more insane. The person who connects their vehicle to a fibreglass potty shed,and takes it to chavsville,or the person who has a larger plywood version, who pays to have it in chavsville all year round??
Theres no shame in not being able to afford a proper holiday.
that’s actually a good point,for £3800 a year you could afford a good holiday abroad and more
Very true but that’s one holiday, with a static or a tourer you can use it all year
What you don’t seem to be able to grasp is that some people don’t want to go abroad for their holidays, speaking for myself I do like to go abroad and this year it’s back to France, La Rochelle to be exact, in our caravan, happy days 
raymundo:
Caravan Club recommends a nose weight of abt 50 kg but bad loading by the newbies is a big factor in wobble box disasters, and as for these ■■■■ motormovers, if you cant drive a caravan backwards you shouldn’t be allowed to drive one forwards IMO.Specialist weighing device
CC recommends 7% noseweight. Motor movers , wouldn’t be without them, on many continental sites it is nigh on impossible to get a 7.5m caravan into a 8.5 m hedged pitch so that it faces out without them.
Who gives a toss about the Caravan Club, a pretentious middle class smug woolly jumper brigade that has to define they are different to the real travelling community by saying we are not like them.
They both drag caravans.