RV 101® - Tow Your 5th Wheel Like a Pro Online Video Training Program

Everything you need to know about towing your 5th wheel trailer like a pro, in one easy to understand course

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Tow your 5th Wheel like a Pro Video Training Program

Our RV 101 online video training programs can be viewed from computers, tablets, and smartphones. This training program will teach you how to tow your fifth wheel trailer like a pro. The program includes written material, full-feature video instruction (with some downloadable segments), tips & tricks, fun RV University play & learn crossword puzzles and a short quiz upon completion of each chapter.

Now you don't need to drive across the country in search of a driving or towing school to learn professional driving and towing skills. And you don’t need to pay extravagant fees or join annoying clubs that inundate your email inbox with never ending offers.

Just enroll in this information packed online RV training program, and when you are through you will be towing your 5th wheel like a pro.

Video hosts Mark Polk (RV Education 101) and Lorrin Walsh (Professional driver & author of Tow Your 5th Wheel Like a Pro book) provide you with the tools you can apply to help you become a professional driver. This means the development and execution of unique driving/towing techniques and skills needed to become a safer and more confident driver.

This training program is your complete guide to professional driving and towing techniques for every level of experience. It takes commercial driver’s training techniques and converts them into easy to understand terms and techniques. We take you behind the wheel to learn topics like how to select a tow vehicle, weight terms and definitions, 5 th wheel hitching and unhitching, getting ready for the road, maneuvering skills, driving techniques, braking techniques and how to back the 5 th wheel trailer.

Towing a fifth wheel trailer, especially for the first time, can be very intimidating. Lots of people have been towing fifth wheel trailers for many years without a real understanding of the dynamics and driving techniques that apply to a tow vehicle and trailer. When most people learn to drive they are taught the hows- and not the whys. Learning the whys, or mechanics of driving and towing gives you the tools and skills that can be used with any vehicle and any driving/towing situation.

Chapters covered in the Tow your 5th Wheel Like a Pro video training progra

Chapter 1: Selecting a Tow Vehicle

Chapter 2: 5th Wheel Hitches

Chapter 3: Getting Ready for the Road

Chapter 4: Maneuvering Skills

Chapter 5: Backing a Tow Vehicle

Chapter 6: Towing a 5th Wheel Trailer

Chapter 7: The Art of Braking

Chapter 8: Mind Set

Downloads in this course:

Weight Terms & Truck & Trailer Worksheets PDF

Pre-Trip Checklist PDF

Customer Testimonial: I LOVED the videos I got from RV Education 101. The instructions are excellent and easy to understand. I can't recommend them strongly enough. I am a solo, female, new RVer who just bought a HitchHiker Premier. My intent is to RV full-time once my house sells....Patty Schild-Mills


Your Instructor


Mark J. Polk
Mark J. Polk
Who is Mark Polk and why is he qualified to teach RV technical content?
Mark is an RVer and has a very extensive background in the RV industry. He began at age 15, washing RVs at a dealership in North Central Pennsylvania. It wasn't long before he was working as an apprentice RV technician under the guidance of the RV service manager.
His maintenance plans were interrupted when he enlisted in the military. Mark completed airborne training in 1979 and served with some of the most elite U.S. Army Airborne units, including Service Company 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 82nd Signal battalion, 82nd Airborne Division and the 16th Military Police Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps. He spent the next 18 years with the U.S. Army eventually retiring as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 Automotive Maintenance Technician.
In the military, he managed large fleet maintenance operations, and had to teach young soldiers how to maintain and operate ‎expensive vehicles and equipment. These soldiers came to him from very different backgrounds, and their prior experience with heavy equipment and mechanical skills were similarly varied. Mark had to learn how to ‎communicate with all of them clearly, concisely, and effectively, and he found he had a ‎talent for teaching. The Army agreed, and eventually he was asked to produce written ‎instructional materials, including driver training manuals and operating procedures for motor ‎pools.‎
When he retired from the Army in 1996, he went to work for an RV dealership in ‎sales and service. He talked to customers about their needs and desires and helped them select ‎the right RV for them. He inspected used RVs for trade-in, he serviced customer RVs, and he ‎educated customers on how to operate and enjoy their vehicles. As an RV owner himself, throughout the years, he has owned and used all the classifications of RVs (travel trailer, motorhome, pop up, 5th wheel and truck camper). He even restored, from the ground up, a 1967 Yellowstone travel trailer. It was clear to him there ‎were limited resources available to RV owners who wanted to learn more about how to operate and maintain their RVs. Owners’ manuals provide limited information, and most consumers ‎find them confusing. Anecdotal information learned around campfires from other RV owners is ‎incomplete and can be unreliable.
Mark realized he had the knowledge and teaching ability ‎to fill that gap, and so in 1999 he began writing articles and books about how to choose, buy, ‎maintain, repair, and operate a variety of RVs. To date, he has produced more than 500 educational ‎videos, and authored 15 e-books, 3 paperback books, and more than 1,600 articles educating millions of RVers. His best-selling book, titled The RV Book, has sold over 53,000 copies to date.
‎Mark's first priority is the safety of his audience. To Mark, ‎this means anticipating the risks and challenges RVers will encounter when following his ‎instructions, ensuring that the information he provides is complete and accurate, and providing ‎enough information so his audience can make informed decisions about when to tackle ‎maintenance tasks themselves and when to take their vehicles to professionals.
His second ‎priority is his audience’ empowerment. He sends his students out on the road with confidence that they are equipped, prepared, ‎informed, and ready to enjoy themselves.‎Producing material that achieves those goals is a very difficult thing to do. RVs come in ‎a bewildering variety of different types, makes, models, and vintages, and when Mark writes ‎about tasks such as winterizing an RV plumbing system, (as we know there are many ways to winterize an RV), his instructions need to walk his readers through the process ‎regardless of what RV the reader happens to own.
Like his soldiers, his RV students come to him ‎with widely disparate levels of expertise, experience, talent, and motivation, and his instructions ‎must speak to all of them. Mark’s writing and video presentations are accurate and comprehensive. It is also clear, ‎concise, and easy to understand. He breaks complex, intimidating tasks down to easy steps.

Chief Warrant Officer Three Mark J. Polk was awarded a first place US Army maintenance award from General Shelton.

Mark started RV Education 101 in 1999

  • Writer/ Columnist/ Contributor for numerous RV consumer & RV trade newsletters and magazines (RVBusiness, FMCA, RV News, RV Companion, Pop-Up Times, RV Free Wheelin’, Trail Blazer, RV Executive Today and RV Magazine,)
  • RV Technical Writer for several newsletters and blogs, (Go RVing blog, KOA Kompass Newsletter and Blog, Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), RV Net Expert Blog, RV University This Week, Camping World e-newsletter, RV Travel, RV Trader, Rollin On TV website, HGTV and Geiko Insurance blog)
  • Script and host television segments for Rollin On TV
  • Scripted & hosted television segment titled RV Savvy for four seasons (52 episodes) with RVTV on The Outdoor Channel and three Canadian TV Channels.

Course Curriculum


  Tow your 5th Wheel Trailer Like A Pro Introduction
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  Tow Your 5th Wheel Like a Pro Full Feature Video Segments
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  Chapter 1 - Selecting a Tow Vehicle Supporting Material
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  Chapter 2 - 5th Wheel Hitches Supporting Material
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  Chapter 3 - Getting Ready for the Road Supporting Material
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  Chapter 4 - Maneuvering Basics Supporting Material
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  Chapter 5 - Backing a 5th Wheel Trailer Supporting Material
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  Chapter 6 - Towing a 5th Wheel Trailer Supporting Material
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  Chapter 7 - The Art of Braking Supporting Material
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  Chapter 8 - Mind Set Supporting Material
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We don't want anybody to be unhappy with this course. If you are not satisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will offer you a full refund if we cannot solve the problem.
How do your online video training courses work?
Our online video training courses are broken down into individual chapters. Each chapter includes a full-feature video segment and written text on the chapter's topic. The course also includes related articles written by your instructor, helpful tips & tricks and fun play & learn RV crossword puzzles. You will not find RV training like this anywhere, all at an affordable price.

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