Can you back up with a toad 4 down

Rollnhome wrote:
How to back up a motorhome with towed vehicle hitched.

yep, they didn't have the toad running for power steering. why does backing up the toad harm it if it is being pushed by the motorhome and yet you can back up the toad as much as you want to under it's own power? guess there is some magic involved and the steering mechanism knows what is causing it to go backward. but yes, a friend at work had a second cousin who heard that somebody had gotten a broken arm from doing this. :s
bumpy