Imperium Specialist Training
Trailer Towing: Off Road
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About
This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to tow trailers off road safely; either as work-related training or for leisure/recreational use (such as caravans, boats, and horse boxes).
The finer details
This training course has been developed to support you to develop your to trailer towing skills and/or satisfy health and safety legislation regarding the safe use of trailers at work. For example, anyone needing to tow trailers off road as part of their work or leisure purposes.
The amount of instruction you will require will depend largely upon your previous experience and sessions will be adapted to meet your needs. Course duration will depend on experience and will be from one to four days.
The training course will consist of theory and practical sessions, followed by assessment. Course sessions include:
- Recap: Trailer handling and reversing
- Recap: Coupling/uncoupling procedures
- Trailer handling and reversing – practice a reversing exercise
- Braking exercise
- Towing off road
- Assessment.
If successful in meeting the required standards assessed, you will be awarded a certificate of competence and a Lantra skills ID card for your chosen certificate option(s).
Delivery method
Training (with Assessment) Competence with Modules
Course description:
Further Information
Training (with Assessment) Competence
Duration Notes: The expected duration for the course is one day, however, please note this may vary according to factors such as level of experience, modules or attachments selected, or the ratio of Instructors to Learners.
The following recommended durations have been developed as guidance to assist Providers:
One day – operators with good previous experience and/or current or recently expired trailer towing certification.
Two days – for operators with limited or no trailer towing experience.
One day is equivalent to seven hours’ contact time. Timings may be increased depending on Learner experience.
Delivery Method: Training (with Assessment)
Prerequisites: This course is suitable for any suitable towing vehicle, for which both the Learner and Instructor are adequately prepared/licenced to operate.
Who should attend?
- This course is for you if you are or will be required to tow a trailer off road. 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 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
- Carry out full pre-driving checks
- Drive the vehicle and trailer (unit) through a series of turns and reverse into a restricted
area - Understand the risks associated with towing off road and apply the knowledge in practice
Other areas of interest
Delivery method
Training (with Assessment) Competence with Modules
Course description:
