How many people cannot reverse their caravan ?

"PSV and HGV drivers fill me with awe at how good they are reversing and slow manoeuvring"

thank you, on my bucket list when i retired was to get my Psv licence and drive coaches, my favourite route was Aberdeen to Inverness via the coast road, Peterhead, Macduff, Buckie etc, try reversing a 56 seater coach round the hair pin bend in the bottom of Buckie because some idiot coming down the hill will not give way. I drove coaches for 2 years.

have the luxury of a mover now on the caravan and having spent £1k plus for the privilage i use it as often as possible, although on at least 2 occasions i have reversed someone elses rig onto pitch because they were making such a hash of it, havent lost the knack.

When you're at home or pitching at a campsite you've got the time to unhitch and use the motor mover, but if you've taken a wrong turning and you've traffic coming in the opposite direction, then it pays to be able to reverse quickly with the caravan attached. The first time that I had to was on a narrow road with a 40 tonne truck coming the other way. There was no way he was going to reverse so I had to, almost 100 yards into the nearest passing point.

When I owned a caravan, motormovers weren't invented. You either learnt to reverse or sought the help of others to position your van when it was a bit tight . I agree with Arch and Lutz everybody should be able to do it or else they should not be on the road.

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No shouting, screaming or excessive handwaving.

We use a pair of cheap 2 way radios and I get told exactly what I'm doing wrong!!!

I know! Even when MrsSF places herself in the right position I have to remind her to look up after a very near incident with an over hanging branch. Banksperson🤣 has to have their wits and eyes everywhere! My reversing camera is a good indicator of how that helping person is doing and how I need to 'advice’ them!

We’ve never had a Motor Mover, considering it’s an expensive piece of kit we don’t need.  But as a farmer my OH has been reversing trailers of all descriptions for over 60 years. But yesterday confessed he was the one who knocked the guttering off a shippon, while reversing the cattle trailer.

I must admit I am quite good at reversing the caravan have even been complimented on it a few times on site. We live at the end of a cul de sac so when we come home with the van I have to drive right up to the end then turn 90 degrees and revere it to our drive over the years I’ve become quite good at it so on sites I normally manage. We do have a mover fitted though which is handy once the van is on the drive because we park it in the corner of our drive right next to a wall so the mover is great for this also handy on site to manoeuvre it around the pitch if need be

I'm a farmer's boy so could  reverse just as easily as going forward from an early age but on site tend to use the mover to save the grass on the opposite pitch.  Touring Scotland at the moment and would be a bit  stressed if I couldn't reverse into a passing place,  doesn't seem to  bother  some of the numpties.

The best bit is the driver of the 40tonne truck is probably better at reversing than you are. As an HGV driver he will know that it s not as easy to reverse a short trailer than a long 40 ft one