Should I Buy a Caravan Motor Mover?

You have purchased the touring caravan, you have spent weeks looking over the route on your maps, the car's jammed full of everything your family might need on a two week holiday, the cats been given to granny to look after, the open road is calling you. All that has been left to do at the last minute is attach the car to the caravan, who hard can it be?

It is typically at this point in the caravan holiday that everybody realises the weight of stuff they've packed into the caravan to go on holiday. “It was a lot easier in the showroom” is what you can hear most people say the first time they try and hitch up their new caravan after filling it with holiday clothes for a family of four. If you think that’s heavy wait until the return journey home when you’ve bought half of Europe’s beer and wine and a souvenir from every town you visited.

You eventually swallow your pride and ask some neighbours to help you, but they won't be able to help when you get to your holiday destination, what will you do there when unhitching and setting up or hitching up to come home? Again you'll swallow your pride and ask others around you to help, but it doesn’t have to be like that. There is a simple piece of equipment that can make the whole process of hitching and un-hitching caravans really easy.

The Caravan Motor Mover is something that is used everyday at the caravan showrooms but is seldom mentioned when your buying your new or used caravan. Now I don't think it's an intentional ommission by the caravan sales staff but with so many add extra features I guess its not put on the importabce list. For many however a caravan motor mover can be the difference of having a great holiday or worrying about how they will start and end the holiday.

There's a few different manufacturers of caravan motor movers, Powrline, Truma, Reich, Rhyno to name a couple of them, but in theory they all have the equivalent function, to move your caravan for you. There are models that will move double axel caravans weighing up to 2500kg just every bit as easy as moving single axle caravans weighing a great deal less.

Contemporary caravan motor movers all include some type of smooth stop and start to preclude your caravan pitching forward or backwards. They function with efficiency and all ground types even snow, grit, gravel and even the muddy grass of your caravan site, you should never find yourself in a position were you can not move your caravan. They'll pull your caravan up slopes and easy them gently down hills just equally as safe.

Running off a 12v battery, caravan motor movers operate by compressing a rough roller against the caravan tyres and slowly (30cm/min) turning. The rollers can be controlled at the same time on each tyre to pull in a straight line or independently to permit the caravan to turn. All single and most double axel caravan motor movers will revolve the caravan on its own axes, cutting back the space needed to manoeuvre the caravan.

A caravan motor mover is such a good addition to your caravan they should be equipped as standard in my opinion. Regrettably they're not but it's something I advocate you invest in as soon as you buy your caravan.