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However, they did not get far until the owner of the vehicles took action.
One of our long-time customers in Finland, who also works in property management, discovered one morning that three of their new Kramer wheel loaders had been stolen. The value of these wheel loaders is well over €100,000.
When the customer’s administrator logged into our service system, he immediately noticed that the location information for two devices did not match, and that the thieves had managed to bypass the system.
However, GSGroup’s GPS tracker, which was placed in one of the stolen trucks, provided a signal that revealed its location. The customer could then quickly determine the location of the devices in the vehicles in question.
When they arrived at the address indicated by the tracker, it was clear that all three loaders were there. Stolen, but not yet moved out of the country, which is the usual procedure for thefts like these.
-Professional thieves often act in such a way that stolen property is taken to an industrial area and then the perpetrators monitor the area from a distance for about a day or two, in case the police or someone else comes to look for the stolen property, says Pekka Naukkarinen, Business Unit Manager of GSGroup Finland Oy.
Fortunately, in this case, the property was quickly recovered before it could be taken out of Finland.
– We see several cases like this. In this case, we commend the customer who realized early on that something was wrong and used our technology to find out where the stolen vehicles were.
It is more difficult and time-consuming to recover stolen items when they are taken out of the country, but it is very possible to find and recover them, says Naukkarinen.
– Earlier this year, we managed to recover a rental machine worth more than €100,000 that had already been taken out of Finland. It feels good to be able to use technology to help our customers recover their machines and equipment and bring criminals to justice, says Naukkarinen.
Note: *The machine in the picture is not related to the incident.
