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Tow Ready / LBM Training Academy
Safe Trailer Hitching & Safety Checks
Connect with confidence. Check before you tow.
A practical two-hour course covering safe coupling, uncoupling and pre-journey trailer checks for private users, clubs and businesses.
What you will cover
A clear, repeatable approach.
- Safe positioning and preparation
- Practical coupling and uncoupling checks
- Breakaway or secondary-coupling arrangements
- Jockey wheels and electrical connections
- Tyres, lights and visible trailer condition
- Weight-limit and load-security awareness
- Knowing when a combination is not ready to tow
Who it is for
For anyone responsible for coupling, checking or using a trailer.
Trailer owners, tradespeople, clubs, businesses and private groups using suitable towing vehicles and trailers.
This course focuses on hitching and safety checks. It is not a driving-licence qualification or an on-road towing and reversing course.
Training is led by an automotive professional with practical vehicle-inspection and transport experience, including IRTEC Advanced Technician and IRTEC Assessor credentials. Tow Ready does not award an IRTEC qualification.
Ask about dates or group delivery.
Tell us whether you prefer a weekday, evening or weekend session, or ask us about training at your own venue.