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Keeping track of assets

04 February 2010

Technology, don't you just lurve it? In the case of Wales & West Utilities, the company is rather cock-a-hoop about the so-called C-track tracking system, which the gas distribution company uses to keep tabs on its vehicles (including roadworks equipment).
Last December, the system was used to good effect when one of its transit vans was nicked. Subsequently, the tracking system played a blinder when thieves stole a £20,000 mini-excavator from a work site in Merthyr Tydfil.
The thieves, it appears, made big efforts to disable and remove the tracking system. They were not successful. It was eventually recovered from a lock-up not that far from the scene of the crime after Wales & West Utilities pinpointed the digger's whereabouts.
The company liaised with the local police and, bingo, the digger was returned to its rightful ­owner.
Jeanette Morgan, fleet technical assistant at Wales & West Utilities, is understandably full of praise for the tracking system. "These recent incidents demonstrate the value the system provides." Quite.

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