Do you bring spare keys with you on the road?

[fixajet]

extra key hidden somewhere on the truck. extra key hidden somewhere on the outside of the trailer.
Murphy's law says someday you will need one or both of these and you will be glad you hid them.

 

[IBEW Sparky]

Have a truck/trailer set up. I was thinking it would probably be a good idea to put a spare set of trailer keys in my truck glove box and was thinking maybe a spare truck key in one of those realtor style lockboxes clipped to something unoffending in the undercarriage.

Anyone do something similar or have a better plan(besides don't lose your damn keys!)? Do you keep your truck keys and trailer keys on the same key ring or keep them separate? Spares?

We have several sets with us whenever we travel. We each carry a set of keys and each set contains truck keys, all RV keys, and a house keys. We keep a set of RV stashed on the RV for emergency use. My daughter also has a set of our RV keys in case of an emergency.

 

[Eleven99]

Yup!

 

[Captcolour]

And never lock the handle lock on the RV. Just lock the deadbolt. The handle lock can be locked when you close the door, then your keys are inside. Can't happen with using the deadbolt only.

 

[goducks14]

I have RVlocks on our TT. Both doors. Don't need keys for the TT but we have them. If we leave on our bikes we take our master set of TT keys with us. Truck keys stay in the TT if we're out riding our MTN bikes. Obviously when we leave the site out road trippin we're in the truck so we have the truck keys but leave the TT keys in the TT since we have RVlocks.

 

[Toy4Rick]

We drove all day to northern CA, stepped out of the side door of our Class C and all the doors were locked... panic set in as the engine was running and the animals were inside... after thinking of locksmith, breaking a window, I found the RV keys in my pocket...

I now have a spare set of truck and RV keys in a lockbox...

It's a no brainer

 

[reubenray]

We drove all day to northern CA, stepped out of the side door of our Class C and all the doors were locked... panic set in as the engine was running and the animals were inside... after thinking of locksmith, breaking a window, I found the RV keys in my pocket...

I now have a spare set of truck and RV keys in a lockbox...

It's a no brainer

My 2023 truck is keyless, so the keys to the truck and the trailer are in my pocket at all times. I also now have a keyless entry lock on my trailer.

 

[Toy4Rick]

Yes, my truck is keyless now as well and they are all on a carabiner on my belt loop... Until they are not. So I choose to keep a spare set of keys to everything in a small lockbox

 

[jkwilson]

A scenario a friend had happen:

A family trip, mom and dad along with two of their adult children with their families. Three RVs. They headed out for an all day off-road excursion a two hour drive from the campground. Found out when they got there that one of the grandchildren wasn’t tall enough to participate.

Grandma took her and headed back to the campground in son’s vehicle, which was smallest. Arrived at the campground only to realize her camper keys were in her backpack which was with grandpa several hours of mountain driving plus a two hour drive away with her lunch. And she managed to lock the keys in her son’s unfamiliar vehicle.

None of the three RVs had spare keys anywhere outside, and none had stashed vehicle keys. This is a scenario I work to avoid.

Fortunately a Resident Attendant took them in and fed them, and she wound up with a new friend, but it was an easily avoided situation.

 

[masterdrago]

We kept our extra set hanging hidden inside the compartment where the propane tank was since it has no lock. A good place to keep an extra vehicle key is hidden inside a faraday pouch. It will not set off or unlock the truck when in a faraday pouch.

 

[Mechanic Bob]

Yes we carry spare keys. Both truck and camper have keypads, but it takes a key to start the truck.

 

[Txdabj1]

I keep spare keys in various locations outside and inside the trailer. Mainly because on two different occasions I have unlocked the travel trailer door to put things inside. When I returned a short while the door had locked itself and locked me out. This happened to a friend too.
This seems strange for a mechanical lock but it has happened.