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It's been a while since I wrote anything about equipment theft, but a recent note from Boomerang and a chat with my friendly neighbourhood auto mechanic reminded me it's time to look at the subject again.
With my car in for a little work, I was passing a few minutes with the service centres manager, Derek Atwill. He mentioned that his shop had lately installed quite a few Boomerang tracking devices, little gadgets designed to help recover stolen cars. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: "You know, we've been putting a lot of those things into construction equipment lately as well."
Later the same day, my email yielded a copy of Boomflash, a monthly bulletin from Boomerang, in which the company outlines recent successes in recovering vehicles and equipment that have their devices installed.
It turns out December was a busy month for...