What makes it so easy to steal Heavy Equipment?
The first problem in equipment recovery is the time lapse from theft to theft discovery. A car theft will be discovered hours, if not minutes, after the crime. A Heavy Equipment theft on a Friday night might not be discovered until Monday morning. Equipment owners with larger fleets or multi-site operations may not discover the theft for days, weeks or, in some cases, months. This gives the thief a ‘window’ of opportunity when any investigation by law enforcement will not find a theft report. This is a particular problem because suspicious activity such as moving equipment at a strange time of day or on ill-suited transport is most likely to occur during this ‘window’. The gap between autos and equipment widens further when the availability of data is considered. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED THE RAVELCO ANTI THEFT DEVICE ! Some very interesting stories from our big rig and heavy equipment customers . . . “A few days after Christmas 2008, we brought two dozers and a backhoe to our ranch in Geor
