tracker

[floppy]

not happy just got my new ford transit van, the company told me they have trackers on them. any ideas where they are hidden and how i can check if its true. if its true can i block the signal only i like to do the odd job at weekends thanks.

[gc1966]

hi, yes you can scramble the tracker and the devices are widely available on auction sites and the trackers can be hidden literally anywhere

[Snowy79]

Block it and you will just raise more suspicion.

[Johnner]

Tracker wasn't fitted right in the first place !!!!

[gc1966]

snowy raises a good point,
maybe best left well alone
get caught,get sacked,get van took back,no longer a problem

[Snowy79]

I ran an alarm company with 3 vans on the road and thought about fitting trackers purely for ease of allocating jobs for customers to save time. In the end I never bothered as it was easy enough to phone where they were meant to be. If I had a tracker fitted and it suddenly stopped working the first thing I would do would be to drive past where it should be outside of working hours and check or get the driver to fill in a mileage chart. Most bosses have came up the ladder and know all the tricks so it would be dangerous thinking you have one over them in todays market. Get sacked for theft of fuel etc you'll never get another job based on trust. Better to hire a van for the weekend and bump your prices up.

[skywash]

mine is fitted behind the steering column, you can buy a scrambler that plugs into the cig lighter for 25 notes but it cuts out any device within 50 mtrs, mobile, satnav etc

[dctyper]

its there for security surely? not for keeping tabs on you

are you allowed to use your van for personall use?

dc

[Johnner]

its there for security surely? not for keeping tabs on you

are you allowed to use your van for personall use?

dc

It's not exactly a G4S van or patrol car now,is it ?What would you think it's there for ?


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- Fired from my Why?phone 4 using Crapatalk !!

[Johnner]

If you're paying benefit in kind through you're taxes for it,then you probably have it for personal use. At least in Ireland you do.


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- Fired from my Why?phone 4 using Crapatalk !!

[DogdySnigwirter]

i like to do the odd job at weekends thanks.

Buy a cheap van with the earnings.

[tshirtman]

It's not exactly a G4S van or patrol car now,is it ?What would you think it's there for ?


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- Fired from my Why?phone 4 using Crapatalk !!

I think he is referring to security for the vehicle
if there are a fleet of vans then it would reduce the cost of the insurance if all are fitted with trackers

[dctyper]

It's not exactly a G4S van or patrol car now,is it ?What would you think it's there for ?


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- Fired from my Why?phone 4 using Crapatalk !!

for insurance reasons, we had a ?25k freezer van nicked so we decided to get trackers on all the vans

dc

[Johnner]

Okay,have to capitulate on that one !!

Was thinking slightly differently on that one !