SmarTrack News

SmarTrack products have once again been vital in the fight against vehicle theft as the recovery of one tracked caravan has led to 3 other untracked caravans being recovered on the same site.

At the start of July, in the early hours of the morning, our control centre team received a movement notification from one of our customer’s caravans. The team could see that it was moving away from its usual storage unit. Julie at the control centre was quick to call the customer to find out if everything was ok.

In 2019, Supercar Driver hosted the incredibly successful Secret Meet at Donington Park. This year, was the fourth instalment of the highly anticipated event at this location, which saw the largest gathering of the Ferrari big 5 in the world.

Global Telemetrics this year were honoured to be sponsors of this event alongside the other excellent sponsors: Pirelli, JBR Capital and DTO Motorsport. Partnering with SB Race Engineering, Horsepower Racing and Car Audio Security Global Telmetrics were able to offer a one of a kind track experience alongside either Paul Bailey or Ross Wylie.

Helping to protect your vehicle even while you are asleep

I know what you are thinking… why a case study about one of the most stolen vehicles in the UK and the vehicle that made up 67% of May ‘22’s recovery figures.

With the recovery of this Range Rover highlights the efficiency and frankly brilliance of the SmarTrack Trident S7 device, our 24/7 Control Centre and our Repatriations Team. Yes that’s correct with this one we are showing off!

Up until the end of May Global Telemetrics has recovered £17.8 million this year so far.

With nearly half the year gone, May was yet another busy month for Global Telemetrics with £3.4m worth of vehicles recovered this month. This brings the total number of vehicles recovered so far to £17.8m. This is now only just over £5m away from the whole of last year’s total of £23m.

This theft is fairly unique in that it happened in the middle of the day in a residential area in a busy part of Birmingham. Whilst not all thefts happen at night, thefts during the middle of the day are not something that happens all the time. For this unlucky customer his Land Rover Discovery was stolen just after midday on a Sunday afternoon.

There is a myth that if your vehicle is stolen and you don’t get it back within the first 48 hours then you wont get it back at all. Thankfully, this is definitely a myth and not fact and the following case study shows that even after a few days a vehicle can be found and recovered back to a customer. 
Sadly, this also means we see a rise in theft numbers for this type of vehicle. This was the case in February where we had a theft and recovery of a Fiat Ducato Autotrail Motorhome in the London area. 

First Quarter of 2022 Theft Information

Quicker than a blink of an eye the first quarter of 2022 has already come and gone. 2022 is looking to be the busiest year for asset recovery in Global Telemetrics 13 year history and highlighting a worrying trend of vehicle theft being massively on the rise across the UK.

Why a Fleet tracker?

On our website and in our blogs you may have seen referenced our fleet tracking services, but what are they? What do they do? How can they benefit your business?

Recovery highlights for March 2022

Just like January and February before it, March continues to show a sharp increase in vehicles stolen across the UK. March has seen an almost double the increase in the amount of vehicles recovered by Global Telemetrics from February. We recovered a total of £5.4m worth of assets throughout the month. This brings the total of assets recovered for the first quarter of the year up to just over £11.5m.

Case Study, Theft from Train Station – Range Rover Sport

Earlier this month (March ‘22), the Global Telemetrics control centre called our customer on an alert call after we were notified that their Range Rover Sport was moving without the driver detection card present. This is a fairly common occurrence and usually a routine call for our control centre, but not for this Range Rover.

Our customer confirmed that the car had been parked at a railway station since the morning and if it was moving it had definitely been stolen. Following procedure our SVR team advised the customer to contact the police and obtain a crime reference number.