Navman Wireless to the rescue for heart attack victim
Recently Rosalie Coupland, a director at Te Awamutu-based Couplands Transport was particularly glad the company had invested in Navman Wireless vehicle tracking for 15 of the vehicles in the company's fleet.
One of Couplands Transport's drivers had a heart attack while driving his truck. He managed to phone through to the transport desk, but was unsure of his exact location and was drifting in and out of consciousness. While the transport manager kept talking to the driver, reassuring him over the phone, Rosalie was able to give emergency services the exact position of the truck using Navman Wireless OnlineAVL2, saving valuable minutes. Rosalie talked to the ambulance services and between them they guided the ambulance to the truck's precise location and the ambulance officers were able to treat the driver and stabilise his condition.
The driver spent time in hospital and resting at home before returning to work at Couplands Transport 4 weeks later.
Everyone at Couplands Transport was extremely thankful for the Navman Wireless system which saved valuable time and possibly the driver's life.
Navman Wireless helps bust vehicle theft ring
David Bleakley at Programmed Maintenance Services in Palmerston North discovered an unexpected benefit from using Navman Wireless tracking and messaging to help manage the company's fleet of 28 vehicles.
Recently thieves stole one of the company's vehicles and removed the Navman Wireless MDT messaging device from the dashboard. Unbeknownst to the thieves, the vehicle also had a Qube tracking device installed.
The van had already been stripped and repainted and was being put back together when the police arrived, having been able to determine the vehicle's whereabouts thanks to Navman Wireless.
On their arrival, police discovered the Programmed Maintenance Services van was not the only vehicle on the premises. In fact its recovery led to police busting a major vehicle theft ring - thanks to Navman Wireless.
Bungling Burglars rumbled by Navman Wireless
A Navman Wireless Qube tracking device in an ageing flatbed truck led police to two brazen burglars and $30,000 of stolen gear.
One recent Monday just before 6am, general manager at Hi-Lift Cranes in Wiri, Barrie Mabbott, got a call from one of his early drivers to say there had been a break-in at the yard.
The burglars pillaged $30,000 of rigging gear, power tools, ladders, 600kg of crane chains, a generator and a waterblaster. After cutting open the front gate, they drove off with the loot loaded on the flatbed truck.
But unbeknown to them the truck had a Navman Wireless tracking system on it. The Hi-Lift dispatcher checked the Navman Wireless Online AVL2 software and found the flatbed truck instantly. Another truck with Navman Wireless was sent to find it and their signals overlapped outside a locked unit barely 300 metres away from Hi-Lift Cranes' premises.
The police got a search warrant and broke into the unit. "And there it was," Mr Mabbott says. "Nothing was missing. Everything they'd taken was loaded neatly on the truck."
"It was the GPS that saved the day," he says. "The cost to install Navman Wireless vehicle tracking in all our trucks and the monthly costs has been repaid in one hit."
The company put in GPS to be able to claim back the off-road portion of its road user charges. "We never dreamt we'd need to use it for detective work."
Vehicle Finisher Turns Private Detective
General manager of Final Touch, Gordon McKerchar, wasn't committed to getting up for the All Whites first World Cup game but his plans changed when his work mobile phone started ringing at 12.30am.
A van had been stolen from outside the house of one of his team members.
Luckily the company's fleet of eight ‘paint touch-up' service vehicles at the time were all tracked using Navman Wireless. So Gordon opened up the OnlineAVL2, found where the van was and Matty was off in hot pursuit.
Meanwhile Gordon had called police and told them that a van had been stolen and that it had a GPS tracking device onboard.
Matty tracked the van to an address that had a number of people and vehicles coming and going and waited for the police to arrive. Next thing he saw the Final Touch van heading back down the driveway. It was on the move again. He tailed the van and Gordon relayed events to the police.
They caught up with the van just as it was being dumped, unfortunately too late for the police to be able to catch the thieves in the act.
Gordon reckons the thieves had started to strip the van and when they discovered the Qube tracking device they decided to dump it and run.
Three hours after that first call, Gordon had his van back, and the All Whites had their first draw of the World Cup.
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