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What year did you start driving? If it was the last 10 years, chances are you were listed as a licensed driver in your parents household.
The only time someone won't get named as a driver is if they have a license but no car and live alone.
It may depend on the state. In Florida, this has been a requirement for decades. The OP’s daughter already has a learner’s permit so the insurance ship has already sailed. At this point, she might as well get a full license. There is no need for her to drive.
I see it this way Lowonluck. The guy entrusted you with his new truck. You then let an unlicensed person drive the truck while "practicing". You'd be buying me a new truck, one way or another.
There is wore in the works then pick up and damage.
After four years he is still the fiance who pays a household allowance and wants OP to quit brown bagging her drinks. The house needs a roof and siding and a/c is apparently not working right but live-in hvac guy cannot get it to work. His truck is in her name because he pays cash? I have paid cash for vehicles. Car dealers do take money.
Truck, wreck aside. How can OP have her father who according to her is half blind and deaf be the licensed driver with her daughter and her history of driving? Where is the sense of responsibility to her own family and to others?
BTW - we live in truck country and 59k is a run of the mill pick up.
Technically it is mine, because it is legally registered to me but it’s his in that he pays for it and covers the expense for it.
We are not talking a little truck, I would need to not be seat belted in to be able to grab the steering wheel. Also I did that in my car a few weeks ago and her driving instructor said we should not be grabbing the steering wheels. She almost hit an ambulance. We were trying to get into the driving school.
She is terrible at driving but I can’t imagine she is alone. Surely other parents have navigated this driving thing.
All I am hearing are excuses after excuses. The bottom line is, YOU let her drive, SHE wrecked the truck, now HE is out. HE had no decision in the process, YOU took it upon yourself.
Time to put on your big girl panties and realize you messed up, and he is paying for it (literally).
It must have been quite humiliating to the daughter to be waving excitedly at her friends then run off the road and crash in front of them. She'll be the butt of driving jokes until she graduates.
I don't think your following Dave Ramsey like you say .... he doesn't let you buy a 59k truck until your a millionaire, in which case, this wouldn't be such a big deal ..
he says to buy used reliable cars, less than half your anal income.
not brand new cars less than half your income.
To be fair, the truck is half of his annual income. We have a fairly high household income. But we also don’t co mingle funds.
I would rather own the truck myself that he drives, than co-sign for him to get it.
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