23/07/2010

It’s not just the July weather that is hotting up.
The effectiveness of our mtrack tracker service was ably demonstrated this week, with four customers reporting assets stolen in just two days. The mtrack protected assets included two large items of plant equipment, a quad bike and a rare Ferrari, all found within hours. This further tracking success reinforces mtrack’s reputation as the world’s leading Stolen Vehicle Recovery (SVR) tracker system.

23/06/2010

Successful recovery operation for two Mercedes Trucks.
The owner of two valuable Mercedes trucks called Automatrics when his customer stopped making payments. Fearing a potential fraud, he requested the trucks be recovered as soon as possible. Each truck was fitted with an mtrack tracking device, and were both found on the same site 2 hours later.

17/06/2010

Plant security using the mtrack tracker scores victory.
A concerned customers’ early hours call for help was received by Automatrics’ 24/7 response centre. The installation of the tracking system on a JCB Telehandler proved to be an invaluable investment. The machine, valued at over £30K, was stolen from a work site in Hull, and the mtrack reported the new location to be some fifty miles away. Automatrics then contacted the police specialist plant theft unit, who immediately deployed officers to rendezvous with the Automatrics finder at the search site. Using mtrack's RF tracking technology, the finder quickly led the police to the stolen JCB.

19/03/2010

20 yard roller skip safely recovered.
mtrack, the only battery-powered tracker accredited by Thatcham, not only led a find team to a stolen skip's location within hours, it also reported its own theft before the owners or their customers realised it was even missing. The bespoke configuration resulted in the mtrack being able to determine that it was outside its operational area.

05/02/2010

£80K Porsche safely returned to owner.
When it was discovered that the same person had hired 2 cars, one of which had been discovered by police in a shipping container along with several others; the owners called us immediately fearing their Porsche Carrera 4s, might become involved in a case of fraud. The Porsche was in North East London but was driven off soon afterwards. At one point, the find team spotted the car leaving a roadside cafe. After travelling some 75 miles in all, it arrived back at the original location where police met with the find team and protected the vehicle until the owner arrived to collect the car.

04/01/2010

Second tractor recovered for mtrack customer.
Further to a successful tractor recovery in November, the same mtrack customer reported a second theft during the Christmas / New Year break. A valuable tractor was extracted through work site security fencing near Thetford. The GSM location was relayed to the customer and the local police whilst an Automatrics finder was dispatched. The tractor was located following further investigation a few hours later hidden in woodland some 30 minutes walk from the nearest road.

10/12/2009

Mini Digger recovered with trailer.
A large plant hire company, one of the largest users of mtrack in the UK, called to report the theft of a Kubota mini digger. The mtrack unit soon gave a gsm position near to Farnham and a finder was sent to the location. Once the RF signal was aquired, the police dispatched an officer to rendezvous with the finder, the asset was spotted 10 minutes later and loaded onto a recovery truck within the hour.

16/09/2009

Norwich Plant Thefts halted by mtrack.
Good job a conscientious plant hire company invested in mtrack to protect their valuable tractor fleet which simply vanished from site. The owners called Automatrics’ 24/7 mtrack line to advise one tractor was stolen and another was missing presumed stolen. The missing unit was located within the hour thanks to the GSM location footprint which was sufficient for the customer to locate the asset. The second tractor was completely hidden so an mtrack radio direction find was needed. A trained finder arrived to rendezvous with Norwich police officers at the cell site location and within 20 minutes of picking up the mtrack radio signal, the tractor was found in a quarry north of Earsham.

18/06/2009

Police intercept stolen Range Rover.
When a prestige hire car was not returned, the hire company suspected a fraud and contacted the police. As the car was protected with a Thatcham Accredited mtrack, the police agreed to get officers involved and quickly contacted Automatrics' mtrack monitoring centre. The mtrack immediately showed the car was heading along the M20 toward the Channel Tunnel junction. With regular, accurate positions, the police successfully intercepted the vehicle within 20 minutes.

18/02/2009

Mtrack tracks E-Waste to West Africa
Automatrics' international tracking facilities enabled Greenpeace to expose shortfalls in the UK councils recycling procedures. An mtrack unit was placed inside a Television set and successfully tracked to markets in Nigeria. The television had been deliberately damaged by Greenpeace and should then have been recycled responsibly

25/11/2008

JCB 8016 Mini Digger Recovered.
Mtrack identifies a stolen JCB inside the lead vehicle of Polish Lorry convoy which was then stopped by Cumbria Highway Police. The JCB was successfully recovered along with a transit van, a Kubota Mini Digger, two generators and some furniture.
“From a hirer’s point of view, the Automatrics units are a godsend,” says Fraser Tool Hire’s General Manager, Michael Lydon. “They are totally independent of the machine they are fitted to and, being magnetic and roughly the size of a cigarette packet, they can be moved from asset to asset, even to items without a power source such as trailers. The level of service from Automatrics can only be described as exemplary.”

14/07/2008

A generator, stolen from Chris Evans' pub, The Mulberry Tree in Chiddingfold, was stolen during the weekend and reported stolen on Monday. The generator was succesfully recovered near Farnham within hours.

29/08/2007

mtrack recovers Mercedes hidden in shipping container.
A stolen Mercedes CLS was located after a thirty minute radio search by the mtrack find team at Southampton Container Port. Despite being hidden inside a shipping container, the mtrack location technology has again proven itself with performance levels that go beyond even the most expensive CAT 5 rated systems. GPS tracking systems simply cannot cope in these circumstances and this find demonstrates clearly the advantages of GSM and radio technology.

04/02/2007

A caravan worth around £40,000 was stolen from a caravan storage site near Warrington. The unit was put into alarm and reported its position some distance away, near Wakefield. A finder tracked the caravan to a travellers site, but whilst he waited for the police, the caravan was towed away. Shortly afterwards, the traveller's were stopped on the motorway by the police. When the caravan was returned to its happy owner, he revealed that this was the third caravan he'd had stolen.

04/12/2006

20KVA Generator recovered from a travellers site, together with several other items, in a raid by Dunbar Police, assisted by a finder and the Police Tactical Aid Unit.

23/10/2006

10KVA Power Cube Generator reported stolen by a major UK plant hire company. The unit was traced to a sealed office block. The Police then raided the office and the generator was recovered. Several arrests were also made.

03/10/2006

13KVA Generator recovered near a firing range on MOD property.

16/05/2006

12.5KVA Generator recovered together with a stolen Suzuki van and another generator worth a total of £70,000.

09/05/2006

1 ton Dumper Truck reported stolen from a site in Northwood. The unit was recovered the same day near Welwyn Garden City, together with a number of other items including a 7.5 ton excavator and a 30KVA generator with a total value of around £120,000.

11/11/2005

50KVA Genset recovered from within a refrigerated lorry. Other stolen items were also found within the lorry including; a 5 ton dumper, 4 cement mixers, 3 mini diggers and several other items, all due to be shipped to Cyprus later that day. These items had a total value in excess of £150,000.

09/08/2004

Caravan worth £14,000 recovered from a site near Portsmouth, Hants. When the local police arrived the ID and paperwork had already been changed by the offenders. Whilst the thieves concentrated on checking for a hardwired tracking device, they did not think of looking for the wireless mtrack unit.

20/06/2004

A mini digger belonging to a client was stolen in the Northeast on 19/06/2004. The asset was recovered near Liverpool on 20/06/2004.

18/06/2004

A generator belonging to one of the world’s largest construction companies, was stolen in Northern Ireland on the 16/06/2004. A police warrant was obtained that forced the South Ireland mobile network, with which there is currently no agreement, to tell us which mast the mtrack was connected to. The unit was recovered using the radio beacon on 18/06/2004 at 15.00hrs. It had already been repainted.

18/06/2004

Generator recovered near Croydon, another generator was stolen after hours on 18/06/2004, and was recovered by a distributor south of London near Croydon on the afternoon of 19/06/2004.

18/11/2003

3 x outboard motors recovered in OSLO, Norway, within 24 hours of being stolen.

17/11/2003

RS components, a division of Farnell Electronics International, tracked, pinpointed, and recovered an internal theft of £1,000’s of digital recorders, test instruments, and tools. Total previous loses through same source is estimated at well over six figures.

03/11/2003

Department of social security fraud to the value of £660,000.00 uncovered, using mtrack to trace claimant’s vehicle.

15-17/10/2003

3 x lighting rigs stolen around the M25. Found in Worksop along with another 9 pieces of plant and machinery. Further police action resulted in arrests in UK, France and Ghana where some of the stolen plant and machinery is being sold.

01-03/10/2003

£35,000.00 worth of generators and other equipment stolen and taken out of GSM coverage on 22/09/2003, came back into the GSM coverage at 17.30hours on 01/10/2003, and immediately reported to monitoring centre. Unit on route to channel port at New Haven. Aeromega response team dispatched at 16.00hrs on 03/10/2003. The site near Gatwick identified within 40 minutes circa £250,000.00 of other stolen plant found and returned to owners.

26/09/2003

£20,000.00 generator recovered by response team with LST in attendance from gypsy site in Essex. Helicopter response pinpointed hideaway in 12 minutes.

25/09/2003

£20,000.00 generator recovered by response team in Watford using a vehicle. In addition, a caterpillar mini digger that was not part of the original search.

24/09/2003

First major UK win - Aeromega helicopter traced £20,000.00 generator to industrial site in Aveley, Essex. Response officer attended with 8 x Essex policeman. Recovered stolen generator plus 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel. In addition, 1 x new Volvo flatbed truck stolen on 06/09/2003, 1 x Komatsu mini-digger, which were not even protected by the mtrack. The other tracking units fitted had been disabled by cutting of antennas.