Take a page out of the motorhome playbook: Get yourself a rear view with a backup camera. This doesn't have to be an expensive or difficult proposition. Walmart has a wireless backup camera with monitor currently selling for less than $90. The beauty of the wireless part of it is that it's a much easier install, and no need for additional "connectors" when you go to load or unload your camper. Of course, you'll probably want to see the toad at times when you're not backing up, so instead of using the backuplight circuit to provide the power, some clever camper owners mount their backup cams above the camper rear entry door and tap power from a rear marker light. Want to see behind you? Just turn on the running lights, powering up the backup cam.
One TC owner has another clever wrinkle: He's got an additional camera that mounts anywhere on his truck with a suction cup. When it's time to load the camper, he "sticks" it on the pickup, aimed in such a way that he can easily watch the progress of his "docking procedure" without breaking his neck. Here, of course, you'd want a connector setup to tap an appropriate source of power and disconnect easily when you're done.
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If you want a rearview camera you need to get one that has cables and connectors to it. I bought one of these license tag cameras and monitor from Heartland America for $99.00, and sent it back because it does not work well at all. It had lines running through the monitoe and it would just go blank for some unknown reason. some times it would be all right, but most of the time you couldn't tell anything about what you were looking at Ralph
Just the other day we heard on TV that some states are going to make it a law to have them on all auto,trucks ect. This is has come about because so many young children have been hurt or killed by drivers get into their auto,car ect and back over a child.
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