Thread: Dead Isuzu.

can you not fit a vehicle monitor/recorder?

Records revs, speed etc... will then give culprit and evidence.

(even just a GPS data sender- alerts at speeds or into or out of areas as set??)

Mining companies have them that show revs, speed, location etc


*** EDIT:- DARN CHRIS BEAT ME TO IT !! SORRY DIDNT SEE HIS POST!***

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

A GPS tracking device does not lie. Two strikes and you're out.
Have fun getting that past the union though

Nothing to get past a union at all. Simply a condition of employment like drug and alcohol testing.

Many of the remote vehicles for SA health have GPS trackers and speed monitors. Its an OHS safety thing.
Nasty warnings for those who exceed the speed limits and ultimate loss of contract.

GPS is a waste of time because its a certainty someone will find a way around it.
The lease then it's yours is a better idea as what I've seen in my mums old company was that people would take better care of the car and pick a more desire able car to get more money over the residual. E.g 40k car with a 40% residual could get from below the $16,000 residual if thrashed or over $22,000 if well maintained, cared for,cleaned and washed. At the end of the company lease you had the choice of getting the difference or paying it out and keeping the car, which a lot did as their partners run around car.

Originally Posted by justinc

I've often thought that providing a worker with his or her own vehicle, and them contributing to paying for it through their pay each week would help them look after it. After all, it would be 'theirs' eventually.

Pretty hard to police and instigate like you said I guess most of the offenders weren't smacked enough when they were kids


JC

Originally Posted by frantic

GPS is a waste of time because its a certainty someone will find a way around it.
The lease then it's yours is a better idea as what I've seen in my mums old company was that people would take better care of the car and pick a more desire able car to get more money over the residual. E.g 40k car with a 40% residual could get from below the $16,000 residual if thrashed or over $22,000 if well maintained, cared for,cleaned and washed. At the end of the company lease you had the choice of getting the difference or paying it out and keeping the car, which a lot did as their partners run around car.

Definitely the way to go if it's practical. Where I work, it's an option - take company supplied car, or provide your own (lease / finance it as you like) and company provides a very attractive "vehicle assistance" allowance. Quite attractive tax-wise if you have a decent accountant. That's basically the only way that I could afford to get into a new Disco.

But for "site" vehicles, this doesn't work, as these vehicles are driven by multiple users (especially on FIFO rostered sites). Sometimes I simply can't believe how some morons treat these vehicles, simply because it's not theirs. You'd certainly never want to buy one of these vehicles when it goes up for sale, unless you knew the vehicle intimately.

But sometimes their own actions catch up with them. A little while back I was driving out to one of our sites in the Disco. One of our "site" vehicles with company logo plastered on the doors overtook me at a ridiculous rate of knots on the way out there (and I'm not exactly a "slow" driver myself, especially on that particular stretch of road). The person driving had not seen the Disco before and never knew who was driving it. I later came across the vehicle in a parking bay on the side of the road - it had been raining and the driver had decided to go for a little bit of "mud sliding" off the side of the road. Fresh tracks / mud all over the vehicle (it was pretty clean when it had previously passed me - we were still on the bitumen section of the road) and he had staked the sidewall of a rear tyre.

He arrived on site a short time after I did - and was promptly booked a seat on that afternoon's plane to Perth, never to return.

BMKal's story reminds me of an incident I had many years ago in Brisbane,dropped my FJ Holden into the local dealer to get serviced,this "Jumpy" was well done up,both externally and motor,spats,white walls,reversed wheels.(pre wide wheels) and it went well,I was going down Grey st Sth Brisbane when passed by my car at valve bounce in second gear,I signalled the driver to pull over,then complemented him on the cool car,his answer was it's a customer's but he would never know,workshop manager was surprised to see me drive in with his apprentice as passenger,end result,motor stripped and checked and repairs done,and the apprentice fired,I did feel sorry for him a little as he was unlucky the owner caught him but it would have been a hard lesson,as he would have had to tell his parents why he lost his apprenticeship!

I don't know about this,how exactly do you thrash a 3.0ltre?,mine couldn't keep up with a kid on a BMX let alone race down the street. Pat

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

A GPS tracking device does not lie. Two strikes and you're out.
Have fun getting that past the union though

In QLD, SA and ACT you will have no problem getting it past the union the law sates that you have to consult we did and have them in all those states.
As for the others you need individual consent, that's the problem, but for all new employee's you can make it a condition of employment.