SEPTEMBER 2019
     

Angry Paul comes out fighting after near-miss

NOT ALWAYS US WHO ARE
 AT FAULT: CARAVANNER

By Dennis Amor
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CARAVANNER Paul Klat has come out fighting after a former truckie joined the growing call for special caravan towing licences.

And the angry traveller has produced photographic evidence to prove it is not always caravanners who are fault.

"I love the superior intellect that tells a bloke everyone else is the problem," he told Caravanning News.

His photographs taken near Wisemans Ferry in NSW clearly show a truck and dog trailer crossing double white lines on a narrow road as it approaches Mr Klat's rig head-on.

"Here is my Toyota with a 'van in tow being pushed off the road," he explained.

"I radioed him to say that had an accident occurred he would have blamed my caravan for going straight at him. Dead men tell no tales so he would have been dead right.

"Due to me going hard left and him going hard left as well, it gave a lot of camera shear and I could not get his number plate. But it is I who needs an endorsed licence ...right?"

Truckie-turned caravanner Patrick Glassborow recently argued that special caravan towing licences were becoming essential.

"A licence is definitely needed for caravan drivers, without question," he said in the Big Rig newspaper.

"By definition it can't be the same as any other licences and must cover their weights, their loaded weight distribution and emergency handling actions when needed."

Mr Glassborow believed minimum standards must be met before inexperienced caravanners were allowed to hit the highways, possibly endangering other road users.

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