My truck was stolen over the weekend

If you are going to be parked over the weekend or any amount of time and have a valuable load in the trailer in a high crime area like you did this is what I would do.

#1. Let the air out of the tires. No thief or thieves are ever going to air up the tires to take the load. Yeah you have to air them back up but hey it is cheaper then what you are going threw know.

#2nd. Put a rattlesnake in the driver seat and a few in the trailer. Make sure you get training on to handle them before doing this but their isn't a thief out their going to mess with your equipment.

Seriously their are different ways of securing your truck from movement or starting without buying any device or security system. Can't steal a truck if it doesn't start and the brakes won't release. They won't stick around and try and diagnose the problem and then try to fix it.

 

Isn't the ecm held on by two bolts and the wiring plug? Just take it with you.

 

Good news today. They found my truck on the side of the road sr 520 but of course the trailer is still missing. The truck is intact. The did rip the qualcomm unit out and took the keypad with them. No visual damage to the truck. The truck had two damaged brake chambers. They also took an ezpass transponder. Why? i will never know. Am sorry i forgot to mention that it was stolen in Orlando, fl. Looks like they were heading to i95 possible then down to Miami. Back to work on Monday. Am heading to the office for a new qualcomm unit. I must say i was a little bit naive. From now on my will install a lojack on my truck and buy cuff locks and a trailer air brake lock. I really hate thieves.

 

That should have worked. Qualcomm have an internal back up battery. When I left Tango they called me asking me about my truck they was tracking the qualcomm that was in a box at fedex in winston salem they though my truck was there I told no you qualcomm is there on its way back to you

 

lemme know where they stole your truck...I'll increase my insurance and go park it there....

 

Aparrently there're only two major pieces to the Qualcomm system, the dish and the keyboard. I was constantly having problems with on on my old truck and I insisted they stop jerking around with swapping out broken parts with other used broken parts and just put in a NEW farkin' unit and be done with it. 4 hours later I had what I'd been asking for for months. A Qualcomm that actually worked!

Still being a satillite based system it had it's drawbacks in urban enviroments. My old company hated that I could make my truck "vanish" on home time. (Actually parked next to an elevated train and within 100' of a power substation, lots of low level radio "noise" there)

And here I thought (your favorite company here) was just being cheap/reckless with their maintenence! It was a SECURITY feature!

 

Reminds me of the Onstar salesman that called one time trying to talk me into a renewal. He pointed out that they could track and recover my pickup if it got stolen. No thanks - that's why I have full coverage on insurance. When it gets stolen I want it to stay gone and not get the stripped down wreck back.

 

Perhaps to get other stolen vehicles through tolls faster(cops are often at toll plazas). The EZPass is registered to a plate, but the thief figures it would take at least several hours for the transponder to be reported stolen and "processing time" before EZPass would realize the transponders' serial number doesn't coincide with the other plates numbers.

Glad your tractor was recovered.

 

More than likely they wanted to get anything out of the truck that transmitted a signal. When you are a theif I imagine you are paraniod. I would be.

 

Hmmm interesting concept - I didn't even think of that.