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Tracker?
TimM:
If you tell them they need to let you know formally, then they will let you know formally. It would cover both you and them......
But if they want to fit them, there is not going to be much you can do about it :cry:
TDi90:
well there is, it just puts your job on the line!!
SteveG:
Just pull the battery one night and see if they call to check that it's nicked! :wink: :wink: :wink:
There's a limited no. of places that you can place a tracing tracker. They use GPS for position and a cell phone modem for uplinking. So the GPS receiver must be placed somewhere it can get a signal and therefore tends to be fairly easy to find. You'll soon know if you have one fitted.
Steve
Thrasher:
Is it just me ... or am I just innocent? I am tracked independantly of my vehicle....and I have no problem with that at all.....
And on an unrelated note .... driving to here (Rijnsburg), our GPS happily informed us of the border changes (i.e. Welcome to Belgium etc) exactly as we hit the signs!?!
I was wondering if we'd get a call as we floated from old blighty.....but nope. ;-)
MTyrrell:
Hmm, posted this reply before but it seams to disappeared when the forum came up with a database error.
Anyhow hear it is again,
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I work for a company that manufactures and fit's these trackers. Normally employers tell theirs drivers out of courtesy, they are easy to spot anyway.
If the tracker the fit uses GSM or Vodafone PackNET to report in then they will have an external GPS and GSM aerial somewhere on the roof of the vehicle.
If they are using the D+ network then the GPS and satellite antenna will be in one enclosure usually looks like a white dome. To get a satellite signal the antenna needs to have a line of sight to sky and a good ground plain, so must be on the roof.
This is what the sat aerials look like, it’s the bit with the cable
http://www.satamatics.com/doc/portal/dl/weq0010/-/en/jpg/
If the aerial became covered in something metallic somehow. :wink: But would also make you’re employer think you have something to hide.
Each time the tracker reports in it cost’s money, on the sat network that’s up to 40p a time so most people have them set up to only report in at intervals such as every 15 minuets
Just a word of warning, these unit's are capable of monitoring your speed.
Are you carrying valuable, dangerous goods? Companies will use them to ensure the safety of there drivers when moving valuable loads, mainly alcohol and cigarettes, they can have panic buttons, as well as linked in with door switches and the engine immobilisers etc. If a vehicle is hijacked or stolen then it can be disabled remotely when the police are there.
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