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GPS tracking catches on - for truck thief-catching

The advert says: "Lost, Stolen or Missing Vehicle! Find It with a GPS Tracking System" - and the idea is appealing to fleet managers of logistics companies, it seems.

Example: GPS North America uses GPS at the basis of its vehicle tracking, trailer tracking, anti-theft, and heavy equipment finder services.

Real-Time Vehicle Tracking from Activetrack uses a combination of GSM phones and GPS "always on" products.

Or there's Track&Talk, which "combines mobile phone, global positioning and the Internet technologies into a single, compact unit to provide a comprehensive and unique fleet management system."

Fancy doing it yourself? There's more tracking gizmos than you can scan at MightyGPS. "Find various data loggers and real time tracking solutions for end users and commercial resellers," it says, including the implausibly (wittily?) named Fugawi

There are even indoor GPS devices (for a limited range of "indoors" definitions) now sold by tracking firms like Location Now

And if the vehicle you want to track isn't yours? No Problem! - Covert sells the GPS/Web device: "It is the only GPS tracking system that does not require a clear skyward view to operate effectively," which means you do a James Bond, and stick it underneath the truck, or car, and track it secretly. "Only our Patent Pending GPS-Stealth™ Technology works while hidden up in the recesses of the  under-belly of the vehicle. This means easy covert installations which are otherwise impossible."

Of course, there's the problem of recharging the batteries with that one... but the good news, obviously, is that these toys are at least safe themselves. Nobody would steal one. Or... would they

* Legendary race of midget prairie-dwellers who run around in the long grass proclaiming their identity: "We're the Fugawi" according to song and story... [picture].

Tags: GPS Tracker, antitheft