Originally Posted by
Champlain Islander
The hardest part is taking a cross country truck hunting trip. When we go to Colorado elk hunting there are normally 3 of us and we have a truck cap all loaded with guns and gear. There is no hiding what we have packed since the cap has windows. The trip takes 3 days so that includes 2 nights in motels...normally somewhere along the Ohio/ Indiana border and then the next night in Kansas. We lock the cap but it isn't feasible to remove everything and bring it into the room so we just park at a good name motel under a well lit spot and hope nobody messes with our truck. Never had an issue..knock on wood.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Secu...riveway+chimes
These are not a PERFECT answer but it's pretty good and it's pretty cheap. I've put one of these in the floor facing up under the steering wheel and carry the reciever/alarm in to the hotel room before. Pretty much zero false alarms and no one is getting in or out of the car with out the alarm inside the hotel room with you going off. You could install the same sensor inside the truck cap over or ON the rear door facing forward toward the cab and it would not be readily seen from outside yet the slightest effort to open the rear doors would trip it as well as any attempt to access by breaking a side window. With it pointed toward the cab I can't see how you would get any false alarms.
Many of them come with TWO sending units so you can also use the extra as a motion alarm INSIDE your hotel room while you are asleep. They have a high and low volume setting on the alarm.
I use them several places at home full time as well as the permanent alarm system. I paint them black for use at home. Set one on the rear motorcycle tire facing down to the tire, set on on an irresistible 5 gallon can of gas. Any ordinary run of the mill thief has got to see if that thing is full soon as they spot it. Plus I've actually got a set just for the drive way.
You can just leave a screw when you set one up and then they are easy to move around any time your needs shift. For instance I had one about 3 feet from a chipmunk hole digging under the garage and had his whole family wiped out in a couple days with out just sitting there all day watching for him to come or go.