Levelling the caravan

You can do either, though in practice, if you have a mover fitted, it might get in the way in one direction or the other.

Personally I would reverse on to leveling ramps as the hand brake will engage almost immediately, pulling the van onto the ramps the van will roll back a couple of inches before the brake engages.

Hope you are not confused by the different responses.

in our experience, if there are two people it is better to pull forward onto the ramp.  The driver keeps their foot on the foot brake while the second person checks the side-to-side spirit level, and puts a chock behind the wheel before the driver applies the handbrake, so that the caravan doesn’t slip down the levelling ramp.

You can then unhitch and level up front to back with the jockey wheel.

Then put the legs down.

Hope that helps. (We don’t have a motor mover, but DO have 30 years practice including 11 years as wardens...and we also manage to line up our Alko lock at the same time...not bragging or anything!)

Although we’ve tried ramps, we’ve never found them as easy as 1,2 or 3 boards stacked. At just over 1” thick for each board your levelling should never be more than .5” out. A bit of care to place your wheels in high/low points on the pitch helps, as does a garden trowel for adding/ reducing gravel height on hardstandings. Understanding how much lift you are getting from a ramp, from the driving seat of a tow vehicle, is harder than estimating the thickness needed from a board stack from the position of a spirit level bubble. Or at least it is for us.

But as suggested above, movers might get in the way ...... mine did on my last caravan hence us having to reverse up the ramp ..... a chunk missing from the top of my ramp bears testament 😁

Current van the mover clears the ramp.  The previous van it didn’t which made the decision for us.  Currently sometimes we pull onto the ramp and sometimes we reverse.  Sometimes there is a good reason for the choice but normally it’s random.   Not sure about line up the Alko lock. In my experience you can have a level van  or a wheel lock aligned but not both.   If you decide to jack the van up to line up the lock.  Leave the van hitched as it stabilises the van. 

don't think there's a set way, we do which ever way the pitch runs.

Different thihkness boards much easier than ramps.Also easeir to line alco up.

Thanks everyone, think there is no real right way, but I do like to reverse, as path finder says the hand brake engages immediately 

thanks again all, Gary 

I use a number of 3'' and 1.5'' blocks each about 4'' wide and 12'' long. If more than 7.5'' required I go elsewhere.