Caravan courses for beginners
Getting Started
If you are caravanning or towing for the first time we offer a 3hour experience session,
On a 3 hour session we will cover the skills needed for reversing a trailer, attaching and detaching a trailer safely and a short drive on the road to cover the basic awareness when towing on the road. This is a great session for people who would like some training but do not need to do the DVSA test. eg older people getting into caravanning or people who need to tow occasionally for work or pleasure and are within the permitted weights of their current drivers licence
Times and Availability.
These sessions can normally be done Monday - Saturday 3 - 6 pm (light permitting)
Price = £115 vehicle and trailer included
Training will be conducted with our usual Ifor williams 10x6 box trailer
About Us
Qualified Instructors
As a Fully Qualified DVSA instructor teaching Learner drivers for fifteen years in the Coventry and Rugby areas, And seven years teaching Car and Trailer, Coventry Trailer Training will now take you on to the next test level, the car and trailer test B+E, whether its for general trailer use for work, horsebox towing or towing your caravan we will train you.
Our Training
Coventry Trailer Training offers fast track intensive trailer training courses to help you pass your car and trailer test.
The B+E test is conducted in a DSA large goods vehicle driving test centre and lasts about one and a half hours. A very high standard of driving is required to pass this type of test, which Coventry Trailer Training can prepare you for.
For the car and trailer, horsebox or caravan (B+E) towing test we advise between 2 and 5 days training to get you to the DSA test standard depending on your experience, and driving standard.
Course content - Starting the day at our safe off road site practising the reverse exercise and uncoupling and recoupling the trailer safely. Then we progress onto road driving to reach required standard of driving while towing, with the driving test at the end of the last day. Our courses cover all that is required for you to pass the B+E test.
We have a suitable box trailer which meets the DSAs requirements for the test. Box trailer loaded with 600kg
We are well located for customers from Coventry, Rugby, Stratford, Warwick, Leamington, Kenilworth, Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, Leicester, Solihull, Tamworth, Weedon, Daventry, Northampton, Banbury, Kettering, Wellingborough, Redditch, Worcester, Birmingham, And the Midlands
We are based at The Oak, Coventry Road, Baginton, CV8 3AU (B&B with good food!)
Licence Law
Did you pass your driving test on or after 1st January 1997 if so :-
You are required to pass an additional driving test in order to tow large trailers above 750kg and gain entitlement to category B+E*
This includes horsebox and caravan towing.
*category B vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes MAM and with up to 8 passenger seats maybe coupled with a trailer up to 750kg MAM (allowing a combined weight up to 4.25 tonnes MAM) OR a trailer over 750kg MAM provided the MAM of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle, and the combination does not exceed 3.5 tonnes MAM.