Weight & Towing Masterclasses

Weightcheck

“Dave Lewis owns and operates Weightcheck Brisbane, a mobile weighbridge service specifically designed to check the weight compliance of caravans and tow vehicles. Weightcheck also provide weight compliance reports for all kinds of trailers, boats, 4wd’s, motorhomes, and camper trailers, as well as Weight Certificates for registration purposes. Dave’s vast technical experience in weighing procedures and weight compliance, provide a valuable insight into the many problems experienced by caravan owners in keeping their rigs compliant”.

Total Towing Setups

Gary has been involved with the caravanning and towing industry for 20+ years and knows all things towing. Total Towing Setups is there to give you the advice and the products you need to help give you the confidence that your tow vehicle and caravan or camper trailer is set up correctly for getting on the road, specializing in Weight Distribution Hitches and Sway Controllers but can help with all your towing products.

So if you want to know more or just get a refresher to make sure you are doing things the right way then we are sure you will get some useful information so come sit in on one of the presentations.

Getabout / Tow-Ed

The Tow-Ed brand name has been in Australia for 17 years. Jeff as owner of (DGE) has been working with Getabout / Tow-Ed for 10+ years now. Jeff has been providing training within different industries for 30+ years and the last 10+ has seen his pet love working with trailers now full time. Jeff owns many types of trailers including 5th rig himself, so his back ground has been spread. His relationship with CTIAQ and other industry personal just brings more knowledge and experience to the driver training as well the legal requirement to always undergo personal development as a Cert IV trainer.

Timetable

10:00AM: Towing Masterclass – Weights, Vehicle Set up & Combination safety on road

Dave from Weightcheck provides a comprehensive explanation of all the compliance requirements related to mass and weight, detailing where each applies.

Gary from Total Towing Setups addresses all the key issues related to correctly setting up your tow vehicle / recreational vehicle combination to ensure safe operation on the road.

Jeff from Tow-Ed covers the “Safety Seven,” emphasising the importance of conducting a health check while on the road.

12:30pm: Loading effects on the caravan

Something very different with audience involvement, The Talking towing team will provide our audience volunteers a chance to place a number of items in our demo caravan whilst maintaining a correct 10% ball down force change as measured in real time.