Hi from Stroud

you just need practice .... no one will laugh if you take a load of attempts to reverse onto a pitch, it'll just give an audience something to watch😉 . Sometimes I can reverse ..... sometimes I can't! 😂 You can guarantee that MrsJF will be standing on the only spot on the site where you can't see or hear you .... and that will be YOUR fault. 😂😂

Yup. I'm afraid nothing I read pointed this out. The car really doesn't like me riding the clutch while trying to push a 1400kg caravan backwards uphill 

auto box would have been a lot better I suspect.

I learned to drive, a long time back, when I was in the army, got used to driving small lorries with trailers, so I can reverse, but sometimes it can be too tricky, or just go all wrong, and sometimes I do actually get the van right on the peg.   Most times, for speed and not to block the site road, I get the van somewhere on the pitch, unhitch, then use the mover.

And as David said, some pitches can be impossible to get onto unless you have a mover.

Having a twin axle, and needing to park it hitch first on our sloping drive, a mover is essential.  We use quite a few CCC sites, and when sites are busy and not many pitches left, the choice of pitches often involves the more awkward to access ones.

So, since you have a mover, my advice is to make good use of it.

I have lost count of how many times I have seen people struggling to reverse onto a pitch, or struggling to get the van hitched up, then looked closely at the van and seen they have a mover!    WHY???

Unless it is broken, use it!

Recently, at a CCC site, I saw that a couple were having a big problem getting onto their pitch, it was a rather awkward one at the end of a cul-de-sac, so I went out to offer help.  I noticed they had a mover, so asked if it was broken.  The answer was no, but that they had forgotten how to use it, starting with how to engage it, as it was over a year since they had been able to get away.

Once they had found the tool to engage it, and the remote, I was able to remind them what to do.