RA052824

Basically my work van will be fitted with a tracker within the next 2 months or so. I'm not to fussed about working a tad longer on site but at the moment it's usefull to have it for the odd trip on the weekends! I don't really want to buy a runabout car as then there will be 6 vehicals outside my house!!! Nooooo room!! Was wondering if theres away of disconnecting it when home from work (eg: 6pm), drive to the local town, shops, gym wherever, then reconnect it when your back home ready to start up again in the morning!?

Shings

Yes there will be if you can find it- not exactly hard on vans.

but it will soon become obvious thats what your doing.

Jake

RA052824

mmm thats what i mean, is it possible to remove it without it showing so back at the office?

focusv8

No, the logging system will record the "missing" signal time.
When we first had them fitted about 5 years ago, several people tried to disable them in the day, all that did was generate a phone call from the "tracker man" to meet him somewhere to investigate the missing signal.

Do you have private use of the van?
With the change in tax on vans companies are probably going to use tracker to prove you are not using it out of hours and therefore don't need to be taxed on it.
Some systems have a privacy switch which allows you to turn off the tracker from viewing in your office but it still records on the makers server and can be recalled if needed for legal reasons.

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RA052824

Rubbish! I thought there would be some way round it! Theres always a round something! & no we don't have private use of it!

focusv8

The only way to fool it is to remove it from the vehicle and leave it powered up at home, then refit it when you get back.

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Shings

Agreed- but it will be quite difficult to do-

You would need another aerial....

You would then need to see how its powered..

The ones I fit just have 3 wires- so when its parked you could disconnect it from the car GPS antenna and reconnect to your "home" one and then clip on your new power source so it doesn't register a disconnection/batt low signal.

Then remove and leave it at home... reconnect when you come home.

But it would be a fuckin nightmare to do.

Jake