Presents the

“Safe-Trailering Rodeo Competition”

at the

National Student Safety Program Annual Teen Leadership Training Conference

Radisson Paper Valley Hotel - Appleton, Wisconsin

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Competition

School teams composed of high school students and one adult/advisor will compete on being the best and safest at using a trailer to transport goods.

Prizes will be awarded to the best team in each phase and the team with the best total score.

Competition Phases

Teams of three students and one adult/advisor will compete in the following phases:

1. Hooking up a trailer to a vehicle.

2. Loading a trailer to avoid sway.

3. Backing up a trailer.

Team Requirements

Each school team must have one student driver and one adult driver.

Prior to competing, team members must watch "Safe Trailering: Part 1" and Safe Trailering: Part 2" videos and read the "A Student Guide to Safe Trailering" brochure. These materials are available online or by sending a request for a DVD to: .

· “Safe Trailering” Video Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=kZkjOGIP85o

· “Safe Trailering” Video Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=UZ8DRC_fWSg

· Instructor's Book: uhaul.com/files/equipment/Safe Trailering_Booklet.pdf

· Student Brochure: uhaul.com/files/equipment/Safe_Trailering_Student_Guide.pdf

All of the "Safe Trailering" materials are available free of charge to public- and private-school driver-education instructors, and to student and parent groups. These are FREE materials. No one is authorized to charge a fee for them, or to use them to collect data.

Information

For more information, Contact Tom Prefling, Director of U-Haul Communications, at

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U-Haul was established by WWII veteran L. S. “Sam” Shoen and his wife, Anna Mary Carty Shoen, in the summer of 1945 as a trailer rental system after their move from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. They learned just before the move that trailer rentals were not available to help families transport personal belongings. They started the business by purchasing used trailers and eventually began building their own trailers on the Carty family ranch in Ridgefield, Washington. By the end of 1949, it was possible to rent a trailer one way from city to city throughout most of the United States and by 1955 throughout most of Canada. Today, U-Haul has a network of more than 15,950 locations in all 50 United States and 10 Canadian provinces.