Video

VIDEO: Top tips for safer caravan reversing

Peter Ashby demonstrates the best way to reverse your tourer

by Chris Jefferies

Reversing is one of the most challenging aspects of towing a caravan – a difficult manoeuvre that can easily go wrong for even the most experienced tourer owner.

Indeed Ed Cross explains that the most common insurance claims Towergate Insurance has to deal with is minor knocks and scrapes as a result of reversing caravans onto pitches.

In this video, he offers tourer owners some advice on the range of gadgets available to help with reversing before going on to talk about courses that are available and offering some advice on how to reverse successfully.

We then meet Peter Ashby of Golden Castle Caravans who gave us some tips on how to reverse in both straight lines and around corners.

However Peter did not just tell us – he backed this up by giving a demonstration of the best way to reverse by doing so with a Sterling Eccles Sport hitched up.