Trailer Towing Lessons and Test

[jinxy]

Hiya

I am wanting to do my trailer towing test, I don't have a 4x4 yet but will hopefully be getting one in the near future and want to be ready to get out and about as soon as I do have one. Where in North Yorkshire offers training without your own car? How much are lessons roughly? What do you actually have to do in the test?

Thanks

 

[scrumpygus]

Hi im not in your area but i can tell you that i did my B+E test and it was roughly £600-£700 for an intensive course inc test fee and that was using the instructors car and trailer.
In the test when i started i had to reverse through cones to the other side of a car park and land the back of the trailer in a box a few feet wide. Then i did an emergency stop then i had to drive around for roughly 40 minutes then when i returned to the test centre i had to unhitch the trailer, check around it drive away and then re-hitch and that was it. I hope that helps you.

 

[amiacat]

Not in your area either (sorry!) but when I did my lessons and test a few months ago it cost £90 for a 3 hour lesson, I think I had about 5 of these. The test was something like £200 (including hire of instructor's car and trailer). I didn't do an intensive course, just had as many lessons as i felt necessary, and your instructor will guide you on this too.

At the test centre I did the same as sandg1 says (although I did all hitching/unhitching before I went out on road). Your instructor will give you lots of helpful hints about how to do the reversing correctly. The hitching and unhitching is straight forward, and the examiner will ask you some basic safety questions about the car (tyre tread, water coolant etc.) and the trailer (lights working, load secured properly etc.). There are lots of questions they can ask but the examiner will just pick a few. The most important thing to remember is to ask the examiner to help you check that your lights are working after you've hitched up again, failure to do this will mean you fail your whole test!!

The driving part is fine, but you do have to drive on every type of road ie. rural, urban, dual carriageway and motorway. You also have to do a downhill start and an uphill start, and an angled start (which basically means you have to pull away from behind a parked car). I had to do all these things and from what my instructor told me you should be examined on them all, it's not like the driving test for a car where they only get you to do 2 out of 3 manouvres (or at least they did in my day!).

Sorry to waffle on! Hope you do well!

 

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http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5098214/Main/5098194/