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Quote: Originally posted by MadMum1972 on 31/7/2013 I have never been to Scotland and would love to try there some time but the journey puts me off. The children were very good - it is me who gets fed up stuck in traffic, lol!

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Even the best of us find ourselves in an awkward spot now and then. It's understandable this could frighten a driver but I wouldn't let one bad experience put you off what could be a lifetime of enjoyable caravanning.

I hope you'll update this post in a couple of weeks and tell us you drove down to Devon & and a lovely holiday with your caravan.

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Don't worry, these things happen, especially if you have lorries creating a pressure wave in front of their windscreens/radiator grilles (the air has to be displaced to the sides and over the roof) combined with strong cross-winds.

When you get the car passed the front of the lorry but the caravan is still alongside it, that's often when the worst of the wobble can happen due to the air being pushed out of the way of the front of the lorry and displaced directly into the front and front-left side of your caravan.

Just take your time overtaking, no need to accelerate hard passed a lorry, just do it a speed that feels safe.

Us female tow-ers are few in number, but don't let this one incident stop you from doing something you've loved up till now. Your kids will be miserable if you sell up and so will you because you'll feel like it's beaten you. I know you worried that you put them in danger, but it's extremely unlikely that a snake would actually result in an accident unless the driver panics, which you didn't.

Get back out there and enjoy the rest of the summer