Caravan Towing | Australian Driving Institute
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Caravan Towing 

ADI’s caravan towing and awareness program is designed to develop towing and manoeuvring skills by aligning techniques to Worlds Best Practice. This program is most suitable for drivers towing a caravan throughout Australia. 

Learning Outcomes 

  • Understand the importance of towing a caravan safely

  • Know the hazards and risks associated with towing a caravan

  • The ability to apply safe towing methods in accordance withWorlds Best Practice and Australian Road Law

  • Safely manoeuvre a caravan

Course Content 
The Australian driving institute caravan towing courses and training

  • Vehicle and Caravan Inspection / Power Checks

  • Distribution of weight

  • Compliance of vehicle and caravan

  • Seating, steering, mirrors

  • Hitching and unhitching.

  • Safety chains and shackles

  • Reversing and manoeuvring; varying exercises including some

  • Complex manoeuvres

Course Information 

  • Ratio: 1 Instructor : Up to 2 Participants 

  • Duration - 4 Hours

  • Requirements - Participants to supply their own Vehicle and Caravan

Additional training pathways

ADI also offer a one day Road Safety Program including Caravan Towing for our clients wanting to develop their Caravan Towing and manouevring whilst also developing their defensive driving techniques. 

This full day allows for up to 3 participants to attend  

Road Safety Program + Caravan Towing 

ADI’s Road Safety Program and Caravan awareness is designed to develop preventative driving  and towing skills and road safety awareness by aligning techniques to Worlds Best Practice. Our

Instructors train and then seamlessly assess each participant to a required standard to identify competency and capability. This program is most suitable for drivers who drive and tow throughout Australia.

Learning Outcomes 

  • Understand the importance of driving and towing safely

  • Know the hazards and risks associated with driving and towing

  • The ability to apply safe driving and towing methods in accordance with Worlds Best Practice and Australian Road Law

The Australian driving institute caravan towing courses and training
Course Content 

  • Cabin Drill

  • Seating, steering, mirrors and trailer

  • Vehicle and Caravan Inspection / Power Checks

  • Road Craft

  • Travelling distances, safety buffers, driving to conditions, speed limits

  • Low ground clearance, high centre of gravity

  • Braking – early, linear, threshold and split surface

  • Line and cornering principles, entry speeds and corner balance

  • Trailer balance, correct gears, load shift

  • Unsealed surfaces

  • Correct gear selection, area of best grip, surface changes

  • Suitable speeds for cruising, cornering and intersections

  • Safe positioning, threshold and emergency braking

  • Overtaking

  • Correct positioning, forward observations & hazards

  • Planning for long load, oversize and road trains

  • Positive overtaking procedures & repositioning

  • Caravan Towing

  • Distribution of weight

  • Compliance of vehicle and caravan

  • Hitching and unhitching

  • Safety chains and shackles

  • Reversing and manoeuvring; varying exercises including some complex manoeuvres

Course Information 

  • Ratio: 1 Instructor : Up to 2 Participants 

  • Duration - 8 Hours

  • Requirements - Participants to supply their own Vehicle and Caravan

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