Tracker

 The company Tracker has been trading very successfully for over 25 years now. Insurance companies usually demand them on high-end vehicles – and many caravans have them too. Indeed, I’m a subscriber for that reason. They also cover plant and farm vehicles, basically anything that’s on wheels and of value.

However, one auction company has taken the Tracker service model to a new level; they’ve had their battery jump packs in the yard secretly fitter with a Tracker. I’ve written before how anything in a car auction is open to theft and how jump-packs, despite their weight and inexpensive nature are forever getting stolen. Most of them are simply created by the yard hands using a sack trolley, big batteries and a pair of jump leads.

It’s not like the auction company didn’t have a good idea where they were going to; the wagon drivers making delivers could plainly see where they were. Despite this, it took a subscription to a tech company to allow them to go around the parish and collect the jump packs without obstruction.

Hopefully, the message will get out that jump-packs are not to be lifted, not because its theft (it is), but because its bloody inconvenient for all involved in the auction game.