Tips to keep your caravan insurance company happy!

If you want to keep your caravan insurance company happy (and by “happy”, we mean by lessening your chances of making a claim on your caravan cover), then read on!

Touring caravans
When drivers become frustrated and angry, the situation may quickly become dangerous.

Touring caravan safety may therefore be affected by your behaviour. It’s advisable to recognise the characteristics of your combined vehicles and drive them within the confines of both good caravan towing practices and the manufacturer’s safety guidelines.
As an example:

  • ensure that your car meets the minimum specification for towing a caravan of that weight and size;
  • don’t overtake other slow vehicles in situations where extended delays in passing are likely (eg. uphill) leading to jams behind you;
  • avoid crowded city centres where tight turns and very narrow streets may be encountered unexpectedly;
  • obey road traffic directions and instructions relating to caravans;
  • try to avoid towing your caravan around in high winds.

So, these are some seemingly obvious ways in how driving carefully can help reduce your claim risk and therefore keep your caravan insurance company happy.

But what else can you do?

Reversing
There’s not really any way of describing entirely in words, how to safely reverse a trailer, motorhome or touring caravan!

What is important is that you try to avoid doing this for the first time when you’re in a cramped space and holding up other furious drivers behind you.

Therefore, it may make sense to practice your reversing technique extensively in a quiet and spacious location (eg. a closed supermarket car park) before you need to do it in anger!
While these may all seem like common sense tips, once you are behind the wheel of a motorhome or towing a caravan, these things may go out of the window if you are lost and / or there are lots of angry drivers behind you.

So, by making a concerted effort to be a bit more road-aware, you may reduce the chances of you making a claim on your caravan cover and keep your caravan insurance company happy!

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