Should some drivers simply stay at home?

Perhaps a separate driving test and licence for those moving from ordinary car to motorhome?
A disaster waiting to happen - and when it does he will proably be totally clueless that he caused it!

The poor old fella, he has probably never had an accident.......but probably caused thousands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I once saw an old bloke driving like this so I stopped him.

Turned out he was having a Diabetic attack which causes people to lose some faculties. A very common occurrence. His wife might've been trying to talk him into stopping...

Perhaps instead of criticising him, you should've tried to chat him at one of the traffic lights...not hard to do...after all he was 65....unless you thought he'd belt you up :-)

Then, if he wasn't having an attack of some sort, you could then give him a verbal tirade on the side of he road...instead of whining here :-)

Thanks, Mikee. I'm 64 1/2. But I take your point about drivers who are not up to it, and, even worse, may not realise that they can't cut the mustard. Present company excepted, of course!!! As a caravan tow-er, I can see an excellent case for a licence requirement to drive around in a 5 tonne, 40 ft rig.
Bot do us a favour, and go easy on the age bit: I'd like another year or two before I am consigned to a gopher.

G/Day All

This Thread reminded me of what happened on Sunday, we were driving back from Teewah Beach, heading down the M1, we were towing the Caravan and sitting on about 90-95kph, this car pulls up beside us and the woman winds down the window and starts yelling at us, I immediately thought there was a problem with the van, Nah she was trying to get directions, and then the driver sped off, I thought maybe I misunderstood her, she might have been trying to tell me something, Yep I pulled over of the road, checked the van, nothing wrong, and it took us about 10 minutes to get back on the road again, with the heavy traffic, does this happen to all of us old farts over 60 lol lol.

Cheers

What is so special about that incident ? On the M1 around the Gold Coast you see people changing multi lanes with no indicators forcing people to take evasive action all the time !

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Hmmmmmm, me thinks we should all stay calm and keep our gripes to ourselves about old or inexperienced elderly drivers. One day we are ALL going to be in that boat and I dare say wouldn't be too pleasant if some young buck wound his window down and told you to stay off the road.

I agree that anyone, regardless of age, not used to driving and towing something unfamiliar should have some training but geeeesh, you have to practice on the real roads sometime.

Patience is a virtue !

Cheers.

We came upon a beauty last month between Broome and the GRR. A similar vehicle with teeny awd in tow was doing 80Km on the Great Northern Highway. Traffic coming meant that we could not overtake. So into some gentle curves we went. Whoops better slow down to 70Km. Several KMs later a chance to overtake and whoops we latte (we saw mum making it int he back!!!!) and IT swerves over just a tad but enough for me us to drop back. Still doing 70K - cant spill the hot coffee.

Then up comes a single lane bridge (someone must know this bridge) and we drop back to 50K. Careful he may fall off you know!!!. If we had a chook you could have stopped and sold tickets to a raffle with the drivers behind and drawn the raffle, while this "person" crosses the bridge.

Why oh why!!!!!

And please caravan towers. When I towed years ago it was an unwritten rule (just being nice) that once you had a few behind it was time to stop and let them past. Not now it seems.Well get up over 80-85 PLEEEAAASSSEE.

Still we had a ball allover the Kimberley. It really is a top place.

You dont have to be old to drive as described. Im a trucky working on the Atherton Tablelands and have to deal with very poor and inconsiderate driving practices from all ages and sexes, many times a day. This time of year this is normal for up here as the southerners congregate up here for the warmer wheather. The fitting of 2 way radios to most of the campers and caravans, would solve so many problems and make things safer. Col

Unfortunately, the type of thing you speak of occurs daily & due to human nature is unlikely to change. One can be angry, annoyed & so on, but the only
real action you can take is to drive defensively...try to anticpiate a problem &
therefore avoid being involved. Some older drivers can be a pain, but stats
show the young are still the ones filling up the cemetaries before their time.
Nothing will change until our mindset changes, aggression while driving being
the biggest offender. I agree that some sort of driver training may be useful,
but how do you make distinctions between rigid motorhomes & articulated
towers of vans of certain length or weight.....oldbaz.

Ever stop to consider that the traffic in brisvegas and surrounds like logan is very confusing to out of towners ,even to Brisbane residents the constant road works ,diversions ect make driving a pain and a total nightmare in peak hr,[should read 5am to 11am + 2pm to 8pm ].