Caravans!!!!!

Why are these bloody things allowed on the road? Or more pertinently why are drivers who have no idea how to drive towing them allowed on the road? Coming back from Islay on Monday we encountered two very different types of driver towing caravans; the first was being towed by someone who knew precisely the problems caused by these mobile chicanes and who pulled over to let us pass, not only that but to his own disadvantage as he pulled over right at the bottom of a hill which I would have been prepared to follow him up as I knew that there would probably be an overtaking opportunity at the top. The second we encountered on the approach to Callendar, by which time BW was driving, this one we had to follow, very slowly (only on very rare occasions getting up to 40mph) virtually to Stirling, as we passed this abomination we found it being driven by a young woman (and not the ancient couple that we had expected to see in the car) who obviously had no clue that she was holding up a line of traffic stretching back a long way; I would not complain if it were not for the fact that there were ample opportunities for her to pull over in order to let the traffic build up behind pass, but did she, NOT ON YOUR LIFE! it is now a legal requirement for agricultural vehicles to pull over and let traffic building up behind pass, so why should this not also be the case for caravans?

On a lighter note, as we came through Crianlarach, BW driving, we came up behind one of these mobile home (camper van) type things; BW lets out a groan of frustration obviously thinking that she is going to have to wait a while to overtake it. But none of it, we fast come up behind a mini-bus and at the first opportunity the guy is out and off, it was a while before BW could overtake the mini-bus, and even driving like Jensen Button it took her a while to catch up the mobile home again, but there was never any chance that she was going to be able to overtake it as this thing was being driven by a very confident and competent driver, plus the fact that it was quite a high performance custom built jobbie. He eventually caught up the aforementioned caravan and after a while just gave up and pulled into a parking space and let the caravan get well ahead. Oh if only there were more of these on the road, especially if they were driven in such a competent and confident manner… Well, it gave us both a laugh!