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By Greg Bartlett

You work third shift, and you were glad this morning when you finally got off work and could head home. However, a startling surprise awaited you in the parking lot – your car wasn’t in your parking spot. Apparently someone stole it.
While that might inconvenience you at the present, having your car stolen doesn’t have to permanently destroy your day or even disrupt your life very much. At least, it doesn’t if you had GPS vehicle tracking installed in your car.

Recently, two trucks from a towing company in Florida were stolen during the night. When an employee realized the tow trucks were missing and alerted the owner, the owner looked on the computer to see where the trucks were. His trucks were equipped with GPS vehicle tracking, so it was easy to locate the trucks and head out to find them. Even when a thief took off in one of the trucks, the towing company owner continued to monitor the truck’s location. He alerted police, who found the trucks abandoned, and then the owner gave police the records that the GPS units kept on where the vehicles had been. Using the information provided by the GPS devices, police were able to apprehend the thieves and recover other stolen merchandise as well.

A GPS vehicle tracking unit in your car will allow you to find out its current location, as well as track its movements, any stops it has made, its speed, and pretty much all the information you could want about your car’s location and activities. If your car is stolen while you work, all you’ll have to do is head to the computer, find out where the car is, and let police know. Without the GPS tracking unit, it may be impossible to locate your car before it is stripped for parts and destroyed in a chop shop.

GPS tracking is worth the investment. In Florida, the tow trucks’ tracking units cost about $300 to purchase and install, and an additional $20 each month. However, the units more than paid for themselves since according to the owner, without those GPS units the trucks, which are worth a great deal more than the GPS units, would not have been recovered.

Probably the best way to find your car if it is stolen is to be able to follow the thief to the vehicle’s location, and with GPS vehicle tracking, you can securely and accurately locate and follow your car – and recover it.