Course Overview:

“Have you trained your workers to tow utility trailers safely? Do they know how to competently back them up? This training is for anyone who is required to tow a trailer for work purposes including:

• Landscaping and groundskeeping crews
• Engineering and roads personnel
• Construction crews

**Important: This course is for utility trailers that do not have a braking system. This course is a pre-requisite for our Heavy Duty Trailer Towing Course.** Our Light Duty Utility Trailer Towing and Backing course combined is a half-day, competency-based, practical program conducted in groups, in a closed area. This course includes a formal “driver quality assurance” assessment with a written report for training records.”

The Course Curriculum Covers:

“The practical component is a competency-based course focusing on the reduction of backing incidents by developing strategies to reduce backing and building requisite skills to back confidently and safely when required. Using vehicles normally operated at their work locations, participants will be able to demonstrate competency in the safe vehicle operation of trailer towing including:

• Hitching and unhitching
• Parking and securing the unit
• Slower speed maneuvers:
• Understanding and managing off-track of the towed unit
• Reversing with mirrors:
• Straight line and offset backing
• Sight side backing into parking spot/loading bay
• Blind side backing and backing with a guide
•  Introduction to Jackknifing “