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Found out my company vehicle has a tracking device
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:34 pm
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:34 pm
I figured out today that my new company vehicle has a tracking device installed. Now, I know they have every right to install such a device. I never use the vehicle for anything that is not allowed, but I’m kinda miffed that they were dishonest about it and tried to slip it by me.
I’m considering wrapping the thing in aluminum foil or just frying the damn thing and seeing how they go about getting it operable again.
What would you do?
I’m considering wrapping the thing in aluminum foil or just frying the damn thing and seeing how they go about getting it operable again.
What would you do?
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Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:37 pm to Spankum
Why not bring it up to them like a reasonable adult?
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:37 pm to Spankum
Most rental vehicles have a tracking device. You never gonna rent a car again?
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:39 pm to Spankum
You could use a jammer. But it would jam your cell phone too.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:40 pm to DiamondDog
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Most rental vehicles have a tracking device. You never gonna rent a car again?
But he dont work for a rental car company so he probably doesnt care about that tracking device.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:40 pm to DiamondDog
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Most rental vehicles have a tracking device. You never gonna rent a car again?
Wrong.
This post was edited on 7/29/20 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:40 pm to Spankum
I don't think it would really bother me, due to the fact that it's a company vehicle.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:44 pm to Spankum
Add in the license plate scanners now common along the highways and the fact that your cell phone is a personal tracking device, and it’s getting hard to use the company car to sneak in a run to Houston to re-up on weed.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:46 pm to Spankum
Is this a vehicle you only use on company time or is it a vehicle you get to take home for personal use too?
If work only, I wouldn’t even care. Nothing to worry about if you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing on company time. If its a take home vehicle, I’d probably figure out a way to accidentally damage the device
If work only, I wouldn’t even care. Nothing to worry about if you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing on company time. If its a take home vehicle, I’d probably figure out a way to accidentally damage the device
This post was edited on 7/29/20 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:47 pm to Spankum
I'd find where it has power running in and run AC voltage through it.
When I managed our leased fleet all of our vehicles had GPS in them.
Which was disabled by pulling the ebrake a single click to ground it out
When I managed our leased fleet all of our vehicles had GPS in them.
Which was disabled by pulling the ebrake a single click to ground it out
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:48 pm to Spankum
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I’m considering wrapping the thing in aluminum foil or just frying the damn thing and seeing how they go about getting it operable again.
Go ahead and frick with it. You probably will be out of a job shortly there after. Once it goes dead and they lose contact with the vehicle, they’ll have the car brought in to inspect and repair it. If there is evidence you tampered with it, you’re toast.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:49 pm to Spankum
Had a coworker remove them out of a couple work trucks this week. Was pretty funny. He is a deaf Hispanic so you should have witnessed him trying to explain it to me. 
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:51 pm to DiamondDog
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Most rental vehicles have a tracking device.
no they don’t Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:58 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Most rental vehicles have a tracking device.
no they don’t
My phone tells me where my truck is these days without me paying for a service.....you don’t think employers know where their vehicles are? Wow. This country gets dumber by the day....
Posted on 7/29/20 at 11:59 pm to Spankum
Do you carry your cell phone with you? Your location is never a secret.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:04 am to tgrbaitn08
My company puts a locator on our $500 laptops. You think Enterprise is out here renting $40,000 vehicles without a mechanism for recovery?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:10 am to Spankum
What would I do?
If I drove a vehicle that my employer paid for and was insuring, I’d expect them in this day and age to have a tracking device. I’d expect it to have a breathalyzer.
After all, it would be their vehicle, not mine. Their liability.
If I drove a vehicle that my employer paid for and was insuring, I’d expect them in this day and age to have a tracking device. I’d expect it to have a breathalyzer.
After all, it would be their vehicle, not mine. Their liability.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:14 am to Spankum
That’s their property. They have the right to know where you’re traveling with it. That being said I had an iPad with a company I worked for a few years back and when I went to interview for a different position slightly outside of my territory, corporate called me up and asked why I wasn’t in my sales territory for a certain time when I bullshitted them that I was in my territory. Lied and said a doctor’s appointment, but that was the second to last straw. The last straw was telling me on Election Day that we all had to come in for sales training at 5:00 the next morning and it was too late to get a vacation day. Needless to say staying up until 3:00 watching the election that I didn’t show up for the sales training. Turned in my 2 weeks notice the following Monday.
So you let that dictate what you will, but being given a car is way more valuable and cost saving for you than a fricking iPad used to track you for more petty reasons.
So you let that dictate what you will, but being given a car is way more valuable and cost saving for you than a fricking iPad used to track you for more petty reasons.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:17 am to Tiger Prawn
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Is this a vehicle you only use on company time or is it a vehicle you get to take home for personal use too?
If work only, I wouldn’t even care. Nothing to worry about if you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing on company time. If its a take home vehicle, I’d probably figure out a way to accidentally damage the device
And if you have enough of a problem with this, I’m sure the company wouldn’t give that much of a frick to just give you a major vehicle allowance if you didn’t want them knowing this. They’d find it odd, sure, but I think a lot of companies would work around this since it’d probably save them money. The company vehicle is largely a courtesy telling the employee that they’re investing in you and putting their money where their mouth is rather than just giving you gas money back. But if you’re dumb enough to not want it, I think quite a few companies would be happy not to give it to you to save some cash.
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 12:19 am
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:21 am to Spankum
If you don't have anything to hide, what's the problem? It's their vehicle, not yours.
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