If this is the first time you have towed or is it town a caravan. I would try to pick a quiet time of day. You will find that the car will not accelerate as quickly as it does solo and stopping distances will be much longer.
Don't worry too much about holding up other traffic . If you feel there is a long queue behind you pull in to a lay-by and let the traffic pass.
Drive steadier especially down hill, leave more room, look around more. Tell your passengers that if you don't reply to them immediately its because your concentrating more on your driving.
Leave plenty of time for your journey. Watch out for white van man, a Merc HiTop doing 90 down the fast lane of the motorway makes my van move far more than any coach or Artic.
I always drive far more gently with the van on this includes pulling away cornering and of course stopping, for instance instead of using the 2 second rule when following another vehicle, leave a 4 second gap.
Remember that the speed limits are different when you are towing a caravan. Where before you could drive at 60 or 70 mph, now you can only drive at 50 or 60 mph
|
