Back up camera for truck and even on a fifth wheel??

Just finished doing this exact mod on my trailer yesterday. Got the kit from Rear View Safety and couldn't be happier with it. It came with a heavy duty disconnect kit and cable and I mounted it at the hitch next to the weight dist hitch bars. Mine came with two cameras, a huge 7 inch color monitor with sound, and all the wires, cables, nuts and screws I needed. I can see behind me now, and it made it super easy to back down a curvy 800 ft driveway and up a hill!

One of the best things I have purchased in a long time!
I got mine from HERE

I thought it was a bit pricy when I ordered it, but now that its here and I saw how heavy duty it was, I understand why.

We have one from Rear View Systems. The camera mounts on the license plate bracket, so you don't need to drill holes in your rig.

Here's a good way to install a backup camera for the truck. It's an Edge Insight CTS monitor. I installed a $12 backup camera I got off of Amazon on the license plate frame (it gives a beautiful picture), ran a wire, and plugged it into the back of the monitor. When I put the truck in reverse, the monitor automatically switches to the camera view. Then when you take it out of reverse, it goes back to the custom gauge configuration you have chosen and set up, which is what is shown in the pic.

The monitor plugs into the OBD2 port under the dash, and you can pull any items of a myriad of data that the ECM has off there and display it. TFT, Trans Fluid Temp was especially important to me, also ECT, Engine Coolant Temp, and with the addition of an exhaust manifold probe kit, I got EGT, Exhaust Gas Temp. You can mount the monitor anywhere you like.

I put one on the back of my 24' trailer which is towed by the 31' motorhome. I ran the cable up to the front and bought a Magellan gps that had a big 7" screen that would also accept video in. The video in on the GPS used a different ring of the input plug than normal, but that was probably to make sure that only 'their' cords would work. Just buy an apple 4 ring plug that adapts to several RCA connectors. Find the one that works, it's that simple.

Anyway, next I put a switch to send some 12v to the camera in back. Now, when I flip that switch, the camera in back of the trailer appears on the GPS screen. I can also see the back of the motorhome, since that 3 camera system was untouched.

To make things even more complicated, since I like to tinker, I added a camera inside the trailer, with infrared lighting, to watch the fragile load, which is very close to the edges of the trailer. That also has a dedicated switch, so that it will also interrupt the gps screen when I flip the switch, and show up on that nice 7" screen. GPS continues to work, with voice commands, during this. I think the model was a 170 Magellan (not sure), and it has it's quirks, but was pretty cheap, a hundred and something.

Dual camera kit with quick release plugs was gotten from Ebay, and I'm sure it's Chinese, but it works so far. It came with a coily cord to go between trailer and back of RV.

I wire tied the cable along the bottom of the frame, tucking it away from harm's way whenever possible, and ran it up through a rubber plug in the driver's area, that was very pliable and easy to fish the line through. Then just added an extra fused output for the switches.

I like it, and for a couple or 3 hundred bucks or so, why not? More information is better, especially when the transmission is in reverse.

I had wanted to do that on my fifth wheel but never did. On my old class C five years ago I had bought a cheap Chinese unit off of eBay. It was wired as opposed to wireless. It worked really well. Be sure to get night vision capabilities.