Is it mine to cut out though ?
The van is second hand but it is on monthly repayment , no mention of it on paperwork , i do hope that the finance co have not done this , previously it was fleet with a catering co , maybe they kept an eye on the engineers ?
Seems weird to leave it in though eh ?
No its not yours to cut out and you could be held responsible for 'damage' to third party property if you do.
The previous company should have had it removed before selling the van on.
https://www.ramtracking.com/vehicle-tracking-systems/van-tracking/Most of these trackers are billed monthly so it could be that the previous owner doesn't know and RAM will just keep invoicing them. It could be that the right hand just doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
Its not an impossibility that a job order was made to remove the tracker, the job charged and never done by a dishonest employee.
I would certainly report it to the previous company. I would also be asking what happened to the second key. If the van has an electric fuel pump I would be discreetly adding an on/off switch into the fuel line to cut power to the fuel pump as an additional security measure sooner rather than later.
About 5 years ago my sister in law asked me if I would be prepared to quote on internal and external window cleaning of their company on a monthly basis. The business was part of a blue chip organisation who decided to sell off that section to the existing management.
So office cleaning was now the responsibility of the 'new' management.
Their original cleaners have continued to clean the windows on a monthly basis but the 'new' company has never received or paid a single invoice for the service. So nobody says a word. Its not a small job either. It takes a cleaner a couple of days to do the job. So for the past 5 years someone else has been paying for a service they aren't receiving. How poor is that that a company can have so little control over their accounts department regarding services they pay for yet don't receive?
Perhaps this is similar.
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