TOYOTA GUIDE TO TOWING

Towing Trailers Carrying ATVs, Snowmobiles and Motorcycles Trail-riding, be it on snowmobiles, ATVs or motorcycles, is a group sport. In determining your towing needs, you might want to make room to accommodate friends and their toys. That means planning to carry more weight than the sum of all your toys and gear—and maybe getting the Sequoia or CrewMax Tundra rather than the DoubleCab.
You have to get the truck and trailer hooked up. Backing the truck and aligning the ball with the hitch coupler takes two people, ideally, but with enough practice or with Toyota’s optional back-up camera and video display, you can do it by yourself.
Have a friend stand by the trailer and direct you with hand signals until the hitch ball is directly beneath the coupler, and lower it onto the ball. Sounds easy, right? If no one is around to help, start by backing toward the trailer, then stop, get out and see where your hitch is in relation to the coupler. If you back up in roughly 3- to 4-foot intervals at first, you can get your truck pointed in the right direction. Then, as you get closer to the trailer, make the intervals shorter, periodically stopping and getting out to check your progress. Before long, you will have inched the hitch into place beneath the coupler.
If you still have trouble doing it by yourself, here’s a neat trick. With your trailer hitched up, hop in the driver’s seat and look back through the rear window. Then, try to pick a point on the front of your trailer that lines up with, say, a spot on the tailgate of your truck. In the future, when those two come together, you’ll know you’re in position. Mark those spots with tape until you get good at it. Once you’ve lowered the coupler onto the ball, lock it in place and raise the tongue jack to its highest position. That ensures you have the most ground clearance, which can be crucial on hilly terrain common to off-road riding areas. Once you’ve raised the tongue jack, crisscross the safety chains under the coupler and connect.....

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