Fancy owning a caravan? Not sure about the business of towing? Mystified by all the issues involved? Topics like this and hundreds of other subjects are explained in a book called the Caravanning Handbook, published by Haynes. This lavishly illustrated guidebook is presented in Haynes’ Glovebox series.

It contains over 300 pages of hints, tips and advice about caravans and caravanning. Anyone contemplating the purchase of their first caravan will find it an invaluable sourcebook. But don’t regard it just as a book for ‘first timers’. More...

If you leave a caravan parked for winter and don’t move it at all for several months, the sidewall sections of your tyres are under a heavy load. To avoid cracks, always move a caravan a few centimetres one way or the other every few weeks to share out the stress zones.