caravan security

Good advice John - Ta

Paul

Yep I will second those comments John. We are booked into a van park at Townville later in the year, but while in the area will be staying on Magnetic Island for a four days. The Van park will allow us to leave our vans (there are two of travelling together) on there site $5 per night if unoccupied & leaving the power connected. Sounds good to us. Cheers

Hi Barry,
Yeah that's sound really good this bloke didn't say it was a site just a parking spot but what your doing sounds great as you can keep the batteries charged if needed as well .

Cheers.

unfortunately a wheel lock is no deterrant if the van is out of site... and if it cant be stolen someone is just as likely to turn around and set fire to it. Caravan park sounds like and excellant idea.

Thanks very much for your comprehensive and extemely valuable suggestions and examples Flywest.

We really appreciate the effort you went to.

You are more than welcome Paul F.

Its a "pet issue" of mine - I lost (was the victim of theft of) an outboard motor when a teenager - that really upset me...and various other items since, I guess haven't helped the problem.

Only a few months back someone broke into our locked yard and attempted to steal our offroad M / bike we had advertised for sale.

I don't know about opportunism - this guy got the 2 new helmets and left and came back with bolt cutters to get the bike via cutting the lock.

More like determined the blighters are.

I did more work insecurity with hidden tracking devices in white goods delivered to building sites that disappeared with regularity every weekend, and broke a few "sophisticated/ well organized" theft rings that had gone unchallenged for years.

That was work on behalf of mostly insurance companies, who get sick of picking up the tab!

Tracking technology is the new weapon and it proves very effective.

So much so that the pro thieves who are now getting "clued up" about sich devices - now as a matter of course - take the stolen item somewhere close bye (to minimize time with it in their possession), and sit off, either in a vehicle or friends property / flat / industrial unit, drinking beer and eating pizza and keeping an eye on the item waiting to see if owners or police, come to recover it, most often for 24 hours!

If it doesn't draw the crabs - then they go hitch it up again and away they go, with a bit more confidence, that it isn't being tracked.

So - when something does get stolen, sometimes a quick (inside 24 hours) search of neighboring streets - cul de sacs, industrial suburbs etc will turn up the item just "sitting" - being watched!

After the first 24 hours if you haven't found it (and it isn't tracked) you can kiss it goodbye.

Best of luck with it, I hate injustice, and wish more people would work pro actively to bring the crooks undone.

Cheers

If my reply just causes you to think about things a bit deeper - then it was worth the phat phingers syndrome effort of typing it all out!

My suggestion to you is to do some research.

When you look at the ezi trak website - there should be a "news stories" page with reports about the most recent success cases where items of plant (often contractors machinery - backhoes and bob cats etc) are successfully recovered and the crims caught red handed.

Makes fascinating reading.

A few I copied below for your viewing entertainment.

STOLEN QUAD BIKE RECOVERED ARRESTS MADE

* WA Police were successful in recovering a stolen Quad Bike in suburban Perth in February 2007. The Quad Bike was stored in a shipping container and thieves used a bobcat to break into the container.
* Within seconds of the Quad Bike being stolen, the owner of the bike received a phone call from the bike to advise of the theft.
* How can a Quad Bike call its owner when it's been stolen? Easy ? when it has an EziTrak? GPS Security and Tracking System installed.
* Within seconds of the bike being tampered with, Mike Jones (the owner of the bike) received a phone call on his mobile from the EziTrak? unit in the bike to advise of the theft.
* With the help of EziTrak?'s WA distributor Ashley Electrical, Mike was then able to track the bike and get its location to within 6 metres. Police were advised of the location of the stolen Quad Bike. The bike was recovered and arrests made in relation to this and other matters. The bike's owner Mike Jones said;
* ?This is the first time that I've had a stolen item returned to me. To know that the thieves have been arrested is just a bonus!?
* A good result all round! Our EziTrak? customer got his stolen Quad Bike back and the police made arrests. All this from an EziTrak? which can be installted for around $1,300!

GPS BEATS SPEEDING FINE
View ACA Video

URGENT PRESS RELEASE
AUSSIE MADE GPS DEVICE BEATS NSW POLIC

* Sydney driver Michael Simotas was charged with speeding by police officers using a handheld radar, allegedly doing 85 km/hr in a 60 km/hr zone.
* But Michael had a secret weapon in his car ? an EziTrak? GPS Security and Tracking System. Michael was able to download the black box from his EziTrak? unit which provided accurate, tamper-free data of the vehicle's traveling speed, position and direction.Through this data, Michael was able to prove that his vehicle briefly touched 61 km/hr at the time he was charged but was mostly traveling at 57 km/hr.
* During the subsequent case and appeal, a GPS expert gave corroborating evidence and attested to the accuracy of GPS and the inability to tamper with the data. This is the first case in NSW where GPS data has been admissible in evidence to contest the accuracy of police radar.
* So what is EziTrak?? EziTrak? is a security & tracking system which gives car and vehicle owners personalised, self-monitoring with no ongoing back-to-base fees. EziTrak? utilises GPS and GSM technology to give the owner instant tampering notification, control, tracking and emergency alert information over the phone.
* EziTrak? has an internal Black Box Recorder logging speed, position, time and date from 1 to 255 hours. This information can be downloaded to a PC and then played back on a moving map display. The data is accurate and cannot be tampered with.
* EziTrak? was designed by Sydney based company Rojone Pty Ltd. EziTrak? is manufactured in Australia and is sold throughout the country as well as being exported to the UK, USA and many other countries.


THEFT OF AUSTRALIA POST CONTRATOR VAN FOILED IN MINUTES BY EZITRAK

* July 2006 - In suburban Perth, a van being used for Australia Post deliveries was stolen and recovered by Police within the hour.
* The Mitsubishi van was doing a delivery in Morley when the vehicle was taken; the driver was not harmed. The van was driven for several kilometres before being remotely immobilised by the owner. The vehicle is fitted with a GPS tracking system, EziTrak?, which allowed it to be remotely immobilised in seconds.
* Unable to drive the van, the offender had no option but to abandon the vehicle.
* The EziTrak? GPS tracking system provided the location of the vehicle to within metres, allowing Police to retrieve the van. It is currently being examined by Forensics.
* The owner of the van, Rick O?Brien from Rick?s Rentals, is delighted to have his vehicle recovered with no damage and limited loss of income.
* The van is fitted with EziTrak?, an Australian designed and manufactured tracking and monitoring system for all types of vehicles. EziTrak? utilises GPS and GSM technology to give vehicle owners instant tampering notification, control, tracking and emergency alert information over the phone.

Article from The West Australian - July 26, 2006


BOBCAT EXCAVATOR RECOVERED LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER BEING STOLEN!

* July 2006 - late in the working day, a Bobcat excavator was stolen from a construction site on The Gold Coast, Queensland. The vehicle was fitted with an EziTrak, and we were able to assist the owners access the GPS log from the black box to see the movements of the vehicle.
* First thing the next morning, local police and detectives turned up at the site which was full of containers. Each container was opened until the stolen Bobcat excavator was found! The new "owner" had purchased it the night before for $10,000 cash - considerably less than the Bobcat excavator was worth.
* Police are now investigating and hope to lay charges soon, thanks to EziTrak.


EXCAVATOR RECOVERED - STOLEN FROM SITE
MAY 2006 - SYDNEY AUSTRALIA.

* Literally only days after Moving Dirt featured our Ezitrak? product in their publication, the same mini excavator was stolen. Thankfully, the Ezitrak? Plant product was installed and aided in the immediate recovery of the vehicle.

Moving Dirt Article http://www.ezitrak.com.au/pdf/SAF_stop_thief1.pdf

Research is the key - unless you understand the capability of the device there's no way to gauge its value -

The co deliberately DON'T splash its capabilities everywhere in the public domain because they don't want the crooks to know all the details.

Lots of these are sold to hire car co's who track your movements and kilometers travelled etc via downloading the black box contents via phone to see if you've travelled excess km's or been offroad requiring off road insurance etc - your credit cards already billed before you return the car - disconnecting the speedo no longer works to cheat the system!

Fleet managers can and do track your company car movements, if your goofing off at the beach not visiting your sales clients - the boss will know.

There's a lot of capabilities that unless you research you won't realise or comprehend.

Actually speaking with the company can be mind blowing when you understand it fully.

Cheers