Truck equipment thieves are making a nice living these days and mostly getting away with stealing equipment and credit card fraud (charge card holder fraud included) ... The losses are crushing businesses of all sizes and it just causes prices to keep rising to accommodate it all.
There are two forms of loss: prevention and recovery. Let's discuss "recovery" today.
Loss "prevention" can be a much easier task: just add a warning line on your door signs that says, "we can track down all of our stolen equipment."
What's the "recovery" solution? Well, I have A solution but not THE solution; it doesn't exist. What's my solution, someone with a very deep data, computer, and technology systems engineering background and +27,000 truck equipment customers out there? I've also experienced a couple of expensive credit card fraud chargebacks that would've been easier on us if we had this solution beforehand.
Useful, cheap, and simple little GPS tracker tile technology, of course.
You use little zip-ties and mesh bags to attach them to your pumps, blowers, packages, and the like, hidden out of plain view; do not attach to the equipment directly because they get hot and the tracker will fall off after the stick-on adhesive melts. Then, you maintain the associated monthly GPS tracker account and get restful sleep every night knowing that your investments are safe... Keep it cheap but effective.
Stolen stuff can be easily tracked and the information given to the police so you don't have to go and recover it yourself (we don't recommend it).
Here is a list of the GPS trackers that I would use for my stuff:
It is a short list, I know, and it is because my prerequisites of being very small and able to be easily hidden but out of view and still trackable is important; thieves cannot know it is there but you do, right? The element of surprise is important. I am sure that there are other brands out there.
Do this for all of the equipment that you cannot afford to lose... It's a cheap way to keep up with it all. Believe me, I did the work for you guys.
Last thing: is your truck mounted equipment insured? Call your truck insurance company and do two things: insure your equipment and then report to them that you are using the GPS tracker with tracking capabilities and get a security equipment discount. Don't forget to do that.
I've helped plenty of customers get new stuff that were and were not insured. Get that done, ok?