Trailer Towing Level One
A 4-hour hands-on training course designed to teach essential trailer towing skills, hitching, braking, and safe maneuvering techniques.
Additional Course Information
Learn essential towing skills and behaviours, safety checks, hitching, brakes and braking, braking procedures, and trailer handling techniques. Includes certificate & reporting.
Designed to teach essential towing skills and behaviours, including basic principles, hitching, safety checks, brakes and braking, backing procedures and more. Students are provided a manual. Successful graduates will receive a wallet card. The sponsoring corporation will receive a written report on each participant's readiness to tow trailers and further recommendations if the participant was unsuccessful.
Syllabus
- Basic trailer towing principles
- Pre-trip safety checks
- Hitching and unhitching procedures
- Trailer brakes and braking techniques
- Loading and securing cargo
- Driving tips and recommendations
- Turning and manoeuvring
- Basic backing principles
- Backing procedures and practice
- Safe use of a guide/spotter
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