Tracking miles of trailer?

[RonRN18]

I take possession of my first travel trailer on Thursday and getting quite anxious about playing with everything. One thing that I've been thinking about for a while is whether there is any easy way to track miles of a trailer from an iPhone. I'm a real gadget person and have already purchased several devices to help in managing the trailer, including the BlueLogic LevelMatePro, Victron BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitoring system, and HaulGauge which communicate with my iPhone via Bluetooth. Unlike a motorhome, where the odometer of the motorhome will tell you miles traveled, the odometer of my truck tells me how far the truck has traveled, not how many miles the trailer has been towed. I've seen some "asset tracking" devices that send data via a cellular telephone network, but unfortunately, they all require a monthly service fee, which I am not interested in. I've seen some trailer hub odometers, but I only seem to see ones for semi-trailers, not travel trailers. Does anyone know of anything else for tracking miles on the trailer?

[Grit_dog]

Ermagersh!

Why all the fuss about trailer miles?

[trail-explorer]

https://www.rvsolutions.us/

[AutomationIsCom]

Once you hook your trailer up you will be able to create a custom “trailer” and it will track miles that way. Just don’t select it for other trailers (I.e crate a screen for every trailer)

[Latner]

drsteve wrote:
I have never been asked by an insurer how many miles I planned on towing my TT.

X2

[allen8106]

I just use the truck odometer to track my camper miles and input the information into a spreadsheet. I do this so I can monitor tire wear, bearing re-packs and wheel alignments over miles driven.

[Acdii]

I have 5 different trailers and the F150 Smart Trailer feature is great for keeping track. Only downside is if you trade in, or something happens to the truck and you forget the mark down the accumulated miles. You also need to have a trailer actually plugged in to access each trailer to get those miles.

Been there, Done that. 🙂 The 2018 I have now will detect when connected and disconnected, but not know which trailer is connected, so one must be diligent in remembering to verify the trailer setting matches if there is more than one.

[profdant139]

Ron, what kind of trailer are you getting? Just be advised that you may use it a lot more than you thought you would -- you live in Camping Heaven (near the northern Sierra), and don't be surprised if you are gone almost every weekend. Enjoy!

And back on topic, I manually track the miles I've put on my trailer tires -- just estimating the miles per year, knowing what trips we took and how far we went.

[Boomerweps]

I use a manually entered camping app to track campsites, mileage and costs. Cool feature on the F150s. If I ever get one, I will use it.

[drsteve]

I have never been asked by an insurer how many miles I planned on towing my TT.

[GrandpaKip]

We keep a log with mileage, where we were, dates, time leaving and arriving, and notes about the campsite. I don’t really worry about side trips without the camper, because we don’t usually venture far from the campsite.
I also would not be concerned with tire wear. They will usually look fine and time out first.

[harley_hitchike]

this is a digital meter programmed to tire size rvsolutions.us

[librty02]

I have 31238 miles towing my trailer with my 2011 F150 Because the 150 tells me so 🙂
So far 2764 miles added to the 31238 because my 2018 F150 tells me so...

[Arcamper]

My 14 Ram has a automatic trailer odometer also.

[sgfrye]

rrupert wrote:

RonRN18 wrote:

philh wrote:

RonRN18 wrote:
Does anyone know of anything else for tracking miles on the trailer?

My 2018 F150 tracks trailer miles 🙂

I have just purchased my 2016 F150 and have not yet hooked a trailer up to it... I think I can use my truck too. If so, an easy solution. Since you posted this, I looked it up and see that I have to manually tell the truck when I disconnect the trailer, but otherwise, it will track the miles. Cool.

The truck will sense when the trailer is disconnected.

dang... didn't know either. im a pen and notebook mileage logger. gotta get my 2017 f250 manual out.