Towing in Wind? Advice

It's not the general wind strength which causes challenges, it's the strength of the gusts.   Best advice is if you are uncertain or uncomfortable with weather conditions don't venture on to the public highway.

K

Check the weather bulletins(locally) if they say-'dangerous for high sided vehicles' that includes LV's. It's best to delay your journey than potentially wreck your LV & damage the Car. The News on TV during 50-60mph winds invariably show flipped Trucks on the roads. Hubby may be the best tugger in the World but He can't control Nature.

hi i am due to go away on Saturday but if the winds are going to be 50 mph i will leave till Sunday not worth the risk and i used drive HGV class 1 that's my advice 

We were once in Scotland and we were concerned about the remnants of Hurricane Katia which was due to make landfall the day we were due to leave! We decided to delay our departure for a day so that we wouldn't be towing in such conditions. Trouble was that the next day was perfectly calm but the day we eventually left was very, very windy. Whilst it was uncomfortable in exposed places, by taking it easy we were fine. I think you need to look at as comprehensive weather forecast as you can find to see where the likely path of the wind is going to be. If it looks as if you will be towing through the eye of the storm maybe readjust your plans.

David

Is it better to travel in the eye of a storm? as the winds are on the perifery not in the eye

Difficult predicting if this'll move in your direction at the right speed, however

We once spent a half night on the Lleyn peninsula with the tent straining one way, then all went to sleep during the calm which must have been the eye, as I later got up & moved the car to t'other side as a windbreak, and the tent spent the following hours straining the other way. Our then tiny daughters slept blissfully through it all!

Far more recently, this year, we towed across the Forth Bridge hoping we were in front of the predicted storm, but it was still worryingly interesting, as the HGV in front was definitely swaying. We took comfort that they hadn't closed the bridge -  yet - and also in having a pop-top with the top down, so it's much less prone to catch the gusts.

I was delayed by an hour yesterday on the M40 between Cherwell and the A34 Bicester junction following a collision between a car towing a caravan and two other cars. They were all in the outside lane with front end damage and, whilst it was difficult to be certain, it appeared to be probably due to jack-knifing. Given the blustery conditions yesterday, I was surprised to be passed by a fair number of tuggers rattling along with little regard to the conditions.

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