IN HOUSE Lantra Trailer Handlling
Lantra Trailer Handling course and certificate
Description
This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to handle trailers safely; either as work-related training or for leisure/recreational use (such as caravans, boats, and horse boxes).
The training course will consist of theory and practical sessions, followed by assessment.
Course sessions include:
• Trailer towing safety and the law
• Common causes of accidents
• Hitch types and towing combinations
• Coupling/uncoupling procedures
• Trailer maintenance
• Nose weight measurement
• Trailer handling and reversing
• Braking exercise
• Assessment.
Who should attend?
This course is for you if you are or will be required to tow a trailer.
As you'll appreciate, this course contains some practical activity that will require a minimum level of fitness.
If you have any concerns, please speak to the Provider. What will be covered? At the end of this course you will be able to:
• understand the legal requirements for towing a trailer on/off road
• appreciate the main causes of accidents and how to avoid them
• understand the main principles of ‘safe towing’
• identify the maximum towing weights of specific vehicle/trailer combinations, and apply them to the type of use they are being subjected to
• measure nose weight, and correctly set up a vehicle/trailer combination
• couple and uncouple the trailer correctly and safely
• understand the importance of trailer maintenance
• carry out full pre-driving checks
• drive the vehicle and trailer (unit) through a series of turns and reverse into a restricted area.