VIDEO: Backing up with a trailer has never been easier

You thought you were good at backing up, until you saw you saw this video of the world’s best practitioner. Pedestrians and motorists in a small Norwegian town were recently surprised – shocked, in some cases - by the driver of a Volkswagen car with a trailer attached who insisted on backing up wherever he went. And he went everywhere, too.
February 10, 2016 Read time: 1 min
You thought you were good at backing up, until you saw you saw this video of the world’s best practitioner.

Pedestrians and motorists in a small Norwegian town were recently surprised – shocked, in some cases - by the driver of a Volkswagen car with a trailer attached who insisted on backing up wherever he went.

And he went everywhere, too.

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