Where are the courses held?
Caravan Motor caravan
England
Chipping Warden, Northants circle6circle6
Consett, Co Durham circle6circle6
Devizes, Wilts circle6
Evesham, Worcs circle6
Henfield, W Sussex circle6circle6
Kimberley, Notts circle6circle6
Norwich, Norfolk circle6circle6
Preston, Lancs circle6
Devizes, Wilts circle6
Stoke Climsland, Cornwall circle6
Winchester, Hants circle6circle6
York, N Yorks circle6circle6
Scotland
Broxburn, W Lothian circle6circle6
Wales
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire circle6
Pembrey, Carmarthenshire circle6
Ruthin, Denbighshire circle6circle6
Details about these courses are shown on The Caravan Club
website
www.caravanclub.co.uk. Telephone enquiries to the
Events Department on 01342 336808 or 336779. Each
Caravan Manoeuvring Course costs £80 per person and runs
for approximately 6
1
/2 hours – from 9.15am to 4.45pm, with
lunch and tea breaks. Lunch is not included, so please bring
your own food. The Practical Caravanning Course lasts 10
hours over 1
1
/2 days and costs £95.The Motor Caravan Driving
Course costs £95 per person and is a one-day course lasting six
hours. It is carried out at commercial driving centres on various
weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Driver Training School near Henfield, classroom. You start by coupling and difficult cornering in reverse exercises.
ABOVE
West Sussex, first took me and my fellow uncoupling a caravan and then, with caravan The key to completing the latter is to
CLOCKWISE,
two students through the caravanning safely hitched up, you negotiate a tight work in pairs. While the driver carefully
FROM TOP LEFT:
Tony Waterfield
basics. These included hitching-up, how turning course in a forward direction. Then reverses the outfit, his or her partner should
shows how to hitch
to load a caravan properly (the majority of it’s time for straight-line reversing. be giving vocal instructions from by the up a caravan;
the weight should be low down and over As with anything you don’t do regularly, caravan. Careful manipulation of the
instructor Bernie
the caravan axle), speed limits, towing concentration and patience are required to steering wheel, constant checking of the
Jones helps adjust a
towing mirror; a
weight ratios (The Caravan Club ensure you get the hang of reversing a car mirrors and gentle feathering of the
model outfit helps
recommends that a caravan weighs no and caravan. You need to turn the steering accelerator should, hopefully, see you Tony get his
more than 85% of the car’s kerbweight) wheel in the opposite direction to the way manoeuvre the caravan into place without
message across;
and how to drive an outfit correctly – by your instincts tell you – turn to the left to too much of a fuss.
instruction in the
way of slides, lectures and training aids in make the caravan go right, and vice-versa. Complete this exercise from both near
‘classroom’ before
manoeuvres are
the classroom. After a quick refuelling stop for lunch, it and offside and you can hold your head up
undertaken; keep
Then it was outside for the fun part of the is back into the open air for further high, confident that you are ready to face your eye on that
day – the practical, the chance to put into manoeuvres. First of all, levelling the the real world as you arrive at your pitch for
mirror...
practice what you’ve learnt in the caravan using your car, then the more your first overnight stay. GM >>
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