Incompetence reflects on us all.
Ok what I am about to say will cause offence in some circles but my point is that we all become victims of the surge in interest in caravaning. Every bank holiday or peak time weekend turn on your radio and there's almost always a report of an overturned caravan causing traffic hold ups. On this very site there are people warning us of their bad experiences due to poor understanding or a lack of common sense For the sake of us all please please please learn the basics, take a few courses and become competent before you embarass yourselves or worse. Speeding while towing will hurt, lorries going past will destabilise a badly loaded caravan, using an adapter to reduce 13 pin electrics to a seven pn socket will disable functions, a motor mover is not a substitute for learning to reverse. learn to load and balance the van, Carbon monoxide kils, I've ben a camper/caravanner for 45 years as a child with my parents, and as a parent and beyond. I've never been involved in an accident, suffocated, or caused problems for others simply because I take time to understand the rules, read the instructions and value the lives of my family. We don't need an NVQ in caravaning just plain old common sense.
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I take most of your points, but fail to see the problem with using a motor mover- as a person who caravans on his own, I don't have the luxury of another person to stand on the pitch to direct my reversing quickly and accurately, or to help me manhandle
the caravan for final positioning, or to ensure total accuracy of positioning when hitching up again. For all of these reasons, plus having had back problems in the past, I do my fine manoeuvring on site with a motor mover.0 -
Some good points however it is worth noting that common sense is not that common these days!!
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We are seasoned caravanners who are just getting back onto the road, a motor mover is a must for us, although we can both reverse a caravan. However getting into some of the continental pitches where they are wider towards the back, is so much easier when
you have a mover. We no longer have the strength to manouvre the van. At the same time we want to continue enjoying the caravan....a motor mover is a must for us.0 -
i am an ex farm worker who wrecked my spine on the farm i can reverse my van onto a pitch accurately but the mover was fitted so i can get onto tighter pitches and my drive at home which is on a busy main road my wife can not tow the van as she only passed
her test a few years ago. I maybe wagons do draw you under them when they pass if your van is wrongly loaded but my is correctly done with heavy items over the axle and on the floor, but there slipstream due to there size also draws you in .As to the overturned
vans causing holdups speed yes but also manouvering too sharply will make your van snake or a sudden gust of wind from a speeding van going by, these have happened to me but i have got an alko coupling on my van so i slow down and let that do the work with
no probs so yes you have put some noses out of joint0 -
I think the point about "motor movers"is right. I have one fitted and i use it "most" of the time. The main point that (i think) is being raised is that you should be able to reverse your caravan (if needed) in an emergency. My mover is a god send especially
in those tight French sites as my caravan would be a handful to move back and forth 50 times.0 -
Motor movers are good if one or both of you has back trouble
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