Here is a success story that can help cargo trailer owners save a lot of money and hassle. Recently one of our customers in Indiana, a trailer leasing company, found out why luck favors the prepared. 

Every day on average 26 trailers are stolen in the U.S. But for trailer leasing companies every customer can potentially steal their trailer. So our customer took one of the best possible measures to secure their trailers – they installed a highly covert GPS tracker. 

But all the planning went out the window when one fine day he noticed two of the trailers were in trouble. Their renter was ghosting him and was not responding to his calls and messages. And when he looked at our fleet management portal to see their location, he could see the trailers were 2000 miles away from Indiana – in Fresno, California!

But what made him really worried was seeing that the batteries of both the covert GPS trackers were flat! Even though the last location was shown he kept asking himself – will they still be there? Normally stolen trailers are hard to recover as thieves get rid of them quickly. And even when you know the renters who have stolen them, legal battles are too costly and not worth it.

But something inside him pushed him to take the long drive to Fresno (most probably the $80k at stake-sum of the cost of two new trailers and insurance deductions, and the covert trackers). So he drove out to California. Lo and behold the two trailers were right there at the last active location shown on the portal. That was the moment when the real value of covert GPS trackers to fleet managers hit home.

There is a high possibility that thieves, unaware of the covert GPS trackers, did not move quick enough and left the trailers standing, and took their time to dispose of the stolen property.  

This is how even an unresponsive covert GPS tracker can become a good GPS tracker. Someone please tell this to more than ten thousand trailer owners who might well see their assets stolen this year.