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Trimble GPS stolen
Posted by bforal on October 8, 2015 at 2:51 pmThe equipment listed below was stolen out of one of our survey trucks overnight in Des Moines. They took all support equipment as well, poles, tapes, tripods etc. He was working late on a jobsite a couple miles from home so just took the truck home. Parked in front of his house in a good neighborhood. Typically these items are removed nightly and stored in the office, garage or motel room. The one time you donÛªtÛ?Û?..
Not expecting a miracle, but ya never know.
Trimble R8GNSS 450-470MHz receive only SN 4829155659
Trimble TSC2 running access with roads SN SS18A11157
nate-the-surveyor replied 8 years, 6 months ago 7 Members · 7 Replies- 7 Replies
I’m curious about the storage arrangement that the truck has (e.g. shell, bed cover, tool boxes, Silvershield). And did it have any signs on it identifying it as a survey rig?
They use to hang horse thieves.
WillyJim Frame, post: 339712, member: 10 wrote: I’m curious about the storage arrangement that the truck has (e.g. shell, bed cover, tool boxes, Silvershield). And did it have any signs on it identifying it as a survey rig?
2014 regular cab Ford with an “ARE” commercial series topper. Double rear doors with windows, side gullwing doors. No markings on the truck to indicate it was a survey rig or company logo. Waiting on pics and police report to get a better feel for what happened.
Sounds like an inside job to me. I hope I’m wrong, have to be able to trust people in this business but if he quits in 6 months to start his own business…
geopro_consultants, post: 339765, member: 9959 wrote: Sounds like an inside job to me. I hope I’m wrong, have to be able to trust people in this business but if he quits in 6 months to start his own business…
Am sorry to concur somewhat w/ geopro – many years ago when I was a draftsman, the firm’s party chief ended up at end of day close to home and far from the office. He phoned in and said he would come in next day. Incredibly, he did not bother(so he said) to bring the new Kern instrument into his house for the night. Next he ends up phoning the police in the a.m. for his broken out truck window, instrument is of course gone, the cop fills out the theft report and that’s all she wrote. If he stole the Kern, he definitely made it tidy and clean by phoning the cop, filing the official report, etc. He left the firm a few months after that. We all figured he was the guy who broke his own truck window to acquire a really nice instrument; real good trade off in the mind of a thief.
About 25 years ago I worked for a company where a party chief had parked the truck in back of the office, but didn’t remove the equipment. It was broken into, and a total station was stolen. The owner got the insurance money, and bought a new unit. A few months later, one of the other party chiefs was on a job site, and discovered that another surveyor on the site had the stolen total station, it still had the sticker on it (this owner put metallic stickers, numbered, on all of his equipment). The guy told him who he bought it from, it was a longtime employee and supposed friend of the owner.
We have never had any equipment stolen.
It was always so old, and out of date, that stealing it was like stealing somebody else’s problems. Like Stealing a Chevy Vega, or Ford Pinto. Nobody wanted one.
Our tapes were “well patched”.
I gave my brother our 1923 Adolph Lietz transit. The rack and pinion on the focus was worn out. You had to “assist” it with you other hand, slowly and gently twisting it, while gently turning the focus nob. That’s why it was so nice to get a NEW TM-20c Theodolite. And, eventually, got a Topcon GTS 3c. We still have the 3c.
Nobody wants to steal a headache. That’s our method of protecting our equipment.Nate
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