Driving course????????????for wifey

It is a partner confidence thing, she says I will criticise her but I don't when in the car, so why when in the van? I was up at the farm, and said move it over to the other side of the yard but she would not do it. However now with the threat of the van going at my birthday she has changed the view about it.
I will try very hard to get the weight down to below 3500kgs but it means ALL of the extras going, extra gas bottles, extra batteries, hydraulic levelling, awning, oven, extra seat , spare wheel, spare fuel can tool box, solar panels. food storage, minimum clothing, drop down bed is heavy, no water on the move keep below 80 litres of fuel, safe, sitting area table is very heavy, and every other heavy item I can think of. Just to get it down below the magic weight. Everything that makes it good to live in must go.. . I need a weighbridge certificate well below that weight to get DVLA to downplate it, maybe having to drive alone to save 65kg and worse still the towbar weight is 63kg but wihout it there can be no trailer to carry all the things needed to make it usable again, but at a gross train weight 6200kilos, It is stupid to need to do it as the GTW is way over the van weight but legal??????????? Easier to sell it and give up and take a huge financial hit. I do not want a lighter van as that would entail buying another and paying again, from a seriously depleted savings pool.
 
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Why not renew your C1 licence, (I take it you are coming up to 70yrs young ) I renewed mine ok, had to do a stint on the rolling road at the hospital as have some medical problems, but so far so good. :rolleyes2::cool1:
 
She will have to drive it with you next to her when you can no longer drive it, so point that out to her and see if she will at least try driving it once, before the inevitable, with you beside her, pointing out you can at least take over if there is any sort of problem, or if you can't keep stum. :) I lack confidence when driving, I'm fine if hubby next to me (unlike a lot of wives), and very rarely drive even the car these days but as car had a fault the other day, I drove car to garage and hubby drove mh, coming home we swopped over and I drove the mh, it was fab, I forgot how much i enjoyed driving it, much nicer than the car.
 
Loads of good advice from everyone :)

They say you should never take driving lessons from your partner for all of the reasons stated, and it's probably true in a most cases.

You're right, Yorkieowl. As they say - if you don't use it you lose it.

I'm feeling a little nervous about driving a big A class van back from Essex to Durham in the next week or so, with the added challenge of LHD!
No chance to practice beforehand, either. However, I've driven biggish vehicles before, and also driven abroad. No doubt will get the hang of it pretty quickly - necessity! I just need to avoid the A14 when driving back up north, rofl :)

Good luck, Graham, I hope you can persuade your wife to have a go. As for the money side of it, can you seriously not downsize if necessary?
Wealth & risk-taking is all relative; we've just bought a van I really can't justify spending the money on. It has taken nearly all our savings so we have no leeway if anything else crops up that needs a large payment.... but what the heck! Life is full of risks so we've just gone for it. Can't come back and do it when you're dead! ;) :)
 
LHD, no problem, take it steady, you can get in much closer to the hedge, and if in doubt just stop, and treat every other driver on the road as a complete idiot (apart from me that is :lol-061: ) after a while you will always want to drive.. ENJOY :drive::camper::have fun:;)
 
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