Just a couple weeks ago, I wrote about a Detroit city employee’s vehicle which had been used to BUY crack cocaine.
Now in Key West, FL, an employee was just arrested for selling cocaine, near a school or church, even!
We are seeing quite a few municipalities show interest and purchasing GPS tracking systems.
With problems like this, I can see why! We hear a lot of stories, but these two in the last couple weeks are pretty shocking.
Use GPS Insight! Know where your drivers are at all times! And let them know they’re being tracked. Then they won’t do this type of thing most likely…
Rob
December 25th, 2009 7:44 pm
Yes I fear this is all too common. In my own expereince a cleint reluctantly added GPS tracking to a few vehicles in his fleet, mainly becuase he wanted to prove to corporate Hq why ‘his’ drivers didn’t need to be watched. It’s great to have faith in your employees, but as Ronald Reagan said years ago, “Trust but Verify”.
Turns out this client had a time-sensitive product that could be returned for credit by retail outlets if it wasn’t sold. The employee who was in charge of picking up the returned product was seen to be making stops every day at an unknown location. Turned out to be a self-storage warehouse.
Yep, you guessed it, the trusted employee was taking the returned product, doctoring the company’s accounting records (a huge issue in and of itself, that was overlooked until the GPS tracking highlighted it) and then merrily selling the outdated product out of the warehouse, via the Internet.
Turns out other branches of the company had almost identical problems,, overall losses were huge … and a trial installation of a $500 GPS tracker was the ‘detective’ that rooted it all out. Talk about ROI!
December 25th, 2009 8:03 pm
Thanks for that info Dave. Good story.
2 weeks ago a brand new customer let us know that within a few days of installing devices on his vehicles, he got an “odd hours” alert. He looked to see his driver back at the warehouse (these drivers take the vehicles home at night).
The next day he brought the driver in and told him “they had installed cameras in the yard” (so word wouldn’t get out about the tracking devices). He asked the driver if he had something to tell him about why he was there last night.
The driver admitted he had been stealing copper weekly. This was costing the company roughly $600 a month.
The company told us that just firing that one individual and fixing that problem easily paid for the product.
On another note, a security customer of ours just fired an entire crew after installing GPS on their vehicles. They were sleeping & generally not doing their job to secure the people they were being paid to protect.
Right before the holidays, not the greatest Christmas present to be fired. But neither is having your pockets picked by your employees.
Rob.