When you’re on the road again with your family, travel trailers can provide a great place to spend the night while allowing you freedom of movement throughout the day to explore the nearby countryside.

Whether you’re touring our beautiful National Parks, getting your kicks on Route 66, or exploring the country from sea to shining sea, you’ll find that travel trailers offer many benefits— and a few notable risks. Fortunately for you, one of those risks, the risk of theft, can be reduced with a few important safety precautions.

Preventing Travel Trailer Theft

Because travel trailers are often left detached while traveling so you have greater freedom of movement when unattached, they present tempting targets to thieves of opportunity who can simply back in and hook up to their vehicles before driving off with your unattached trailer.

It happens more than the average camper realizes – until it happens to them. There are things you can do to reduce your risks and present your travel trailer as a less attractive target, like those listed below.

• Install a kingpin lock or tongue lock on your trailer. This will differ accordingly with a fifth wheel or a travel trailer. Invest in a good quality lock to protect your investment in your travel trailer and to make it worth the time it takes to procure and install said lock.
• Consider booting your camper. It works like police “boots” work by locking the wheel in place and making it more difficult for thieves to take. Will this prevent all travel trailer thefts? Not likely. But because most thieves are looking for easy scores, they are more interested in trailers that are easy to take rather than those that present challenges from the start.
• Install GPS tracking. If it is obvious GPS tracking, many thieves will simply move on to travel trailers that do not have this type of tracking. GPS trackers provides a trail that leads directly to the thieve – something most thieves aren’t interested in dealing with. Once again, human nature comes into play and most thieves will move on simply to avoid the hassle. If they choose to continue and take the travel trailer anyway, GPS tracking allows you to contact the police and provide live coordinates for where your travel trailer happens to be.

Little benefits like this makes the investment in GPS tracking for your travel trailer well worth it. What are you waiting for?

Did you just purchase a travel trailer to explore the country? If so, talk to us here at LiveViewGPS how GPS tracking technology can help to protect your investment. Call us at 1-888-544-0494 or chat with us online.

GPS tracking technology has not only gaining popularity with tech-savvy consumers and business owners, but also has with automobile dealers as well. For auto dealers, there are a number of possibilities with GPS tracking.  For instance, when dealerships purchase and install this tracking system into their vehicles, they can use it for things like lot management, vehicle inventory and more. Then, they recoup their investment when insurance and finance managers sell the consumers the technology.

Benefits of GPS Tracking Technology

There are a number of benefits that GPS tracking technology offers auto dealers. Here are just a few of the top.

Service Retention

This technology can help with service retention. Instead of the dealer having to send a consumer a notice about it being time for their vehicle to get an oil change or a tune-up, the technology can provide the dealership with data on exactly how many miles have been driven with the vehicle with makes their ‘oil changing’ case stronger.

Repossession

Many people, although illegal, try to prevent repossession by hiding their defaulted vehicles. This makes locating the vehicle almost impossible. To locate and recover the hidden vehicles, dealerships have to hire professional ‘repo experts’ which can not only take a long time, but also cost a fortune. With GPS tracking technology, however, dealers can cut their repossession costs down substantially or avoid them altogether since they can track and locate the vehicles in real-time.

For example, for many years the “buy-here, pay-here” dealer chain has been adding GPS tracking devices to its vehicles with built in kill-switches. This way, they could finance consumers who didn’t have stellar credit scores and be able to track and repossess the vehicles if needed.

Insurance discounts

With the ability of GPS tracking technology to locate stolen vehicles quickly, many insurance companies are offering discounts on auto insurance. There’s a new feature now that allows consumers to share their driving behavior data, like hard braking and speeding, so their insurance company can do a risk assessment. Knowing they will be rewarded with lower insurance premiums, consumers are more inclined to practice good and safe driving habits.

Other benefits include:

• Protection against theft
• Retrieve stolen vehicles from the dealership lot
• Locate vehicles for the potential customer quicker
• Send consumers service reminders
• Prevent drivers who are testing the vehicles to steal or take a “joy ride” with the vehicles

Auto dealers can be more efficient with GPS tracking. When your dealership can offer more efficient services to your consumers, it earns you a good reputation which can lead to positive word of mouth advertising. GPS technology even helps salespeople find vehicles on the dealership lot quicker which normally would take a few minutes to do while a potential customer looking to test drive waits. Bottom line, GPS tracking technology makes a great tool for customer service and customer retention.

Call us here at LiveViewGPS at 1-888-544-0494  if you’re an automobile dealer and are looking to learn how GPS tracking can help benefit your dealership.

Tiny houses offer a great deal of appeal to audiences from all walks of life. Whether it’s a couple looking for an ideal retirement home, families looking to reduce expenses, people looking to downsize their lives, or someone simply hoping to simplify and live a life with a lower carbon footprint, tiny homes are appealing.

Unfortunately, not everyone who finds them so appealing is willing to go about getting them the right way. In fact, tiny homes are frequent targets for thieves who are interested in selling them for a quick buck or looking for a rent-free place to live as well.

Tiny houses are often on wheels. It is one of the things that is attractive about them to buyers – the fact that if you don’t like the neighborhood it is a simple matter to pack up, pick up, and go in search of new neighbors. That also means that it is a simple matter for thieves to pack up your home and abscond with it when you’re not there to protect your home. These easier it is to move, the more likely it is that there will be people interested in moving it without your permission – not to mention willing to do so.

Tools for Protecting Your Tiny Home

The key to protect your tiny home from theft lies in making it an unattractive target. The more security measures you have in place, the less thieves become interested in taking what is yours.

Install a Security Camera Surveillance System

Begin with a high-tech security system. Store it near your tiny home rather than on or in it to not only catch those who do take your home but to discover if there seem to be people casing your tiny home or the tiny homes of your neighbors. This allows you to keep an eye on your home wherever you may be – thanks to remote streaming on your smartphone or laptop.

Restrict Access to Your Property

Consider installing a locked gate that means people must have a key to or electronic code enter your property. The fewer people who have access to your property the more secure your tiny home will be. Don’t forget to consider physical barriers that will make your home difficult to move like landscaping boulders and such.

Install GPS Tracking on Your Tiny Home

GPS tracking is hugely beneficial in that it allows you to track your home if it is taken to assist in recovery efforts and – hopefully – enable the swift recovery of your tiny home before damage befalls it.

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Take these simple steps now to protect your tiny home from mischief, mayhem, and theft. You’ll be glad you did for the peace of mind it provides alone.

If you’re building a tiny house, be sure to implement tools to protect it, including GPS tracking. Call us at LiveViewGPS to learn about your GPS tracking for tiny homes options. 1-888-544-0494