Motor mover or not.....

But unless you practice reversing you'll never get any better. ☺

Definitly think of your car clutch. You do not want to be in a position of having the clutch part out to keep the speed down when manoeuvering. Full out and engaged can be quite fast  in a tricky position!

As for hitching up we drive up close and then just a small amount on the motor mover aligns

Please remember that the weight of the Mover will eat up a good chunk of your payload, you do not want to be overloaded.  Can you get a weight upgrade on the van?  If so, I would consider that essential.

When we had a caravan we lived on a reasonable slope and I dreaded arriving home after the usually long drive home, however DH managed it ok for many years.  What finally did for us was reversing the van onto  a small pitch from a small site road in a crowded Italian campsite after a horrendous journey from the Mont Blanc tunnel in pouring rain. All made worse by being watched!  DH said 'never again'.............we got the mover and never looked back.  (just to say movers are not just useful for parking at home)

We had a problem with the clutch on our car when my OH got in an awkward situation back at the storage yard after our maiden voyage with our caravan.  He pulled into an area down a slope where the road got progressively narrower because of the impatience of a fellow site owner in the statics area, and couldn’t get back up again.  Had to be rescued and the van towed around a very narrow track by site staff.  That hastened our fitting of a motor mover.  A couple of months later, one Saturday afternoon in December, we were on our way to a site and the clutch went near jct 10 of the M25.  Not a pleasant experience hanging around on the hard shoulder for a couple of hours before having the car put on a low loader and the caravan towed back home, fortunately via the storage site, by the RAC.

With movers you can, provided you have enough clearance round it, spin the caravan around within its own length.

I have never regretted purchasing mine .

Just get a proper auto ..... 😉

When hitching up I get towball under hitch using camera or EmilysMum & then lower caravan onto hitch ..... 😎

only on a single axle 😉

We almost always used to hitch up in that manner, except at the storage site, unless the van alongside was out. However, although I used to like to reverse it onto the pitch if it was quiet, as the practice is always useful. If the site was busy,  particularly kids about on bikes, I always used the mover. Needed it on to line up the Alko wheel lock in any event.

I can’t get that Alko wheel lock right. Line it up perfect  put handbrake on chock the wheel front and back, release mover and handbrake and the wheel always move that little bit and makes it so the Alko lock won’t fit.