Built for the trade
Civil contractors run plant. Plant lives outside. Outside is where it gets nicked, rolled, or 'borrowed' between jobs and never returned. TTT goes in the plant, the trailer and the lockup so you know who has what, where, when.
The pattern
Light towers
Towable light towers walk off road jobs and night sites. $15k+ each. Easy to identify, easy to flog interstate.
Generators and welders
Trade-spec gensets and engine drives. Standalone or skid-mounted. Routinely targeted on weekends.
Survey gear
Total stations, GPS rovers, laser levels. $10k–$50k per unit. Specific enough that buyers know exactly what they want.
Trailers full of kit
A site trailer is hours of theft in one go. Hooked up to a ute and gone before the night supervisor notices.
Mini excavators and skid steers
Anything under 3t can be lifted onto a tilt-tray overnight. Larger plant goes too if the thieves are organised.
The damage
For a civil contractor, the cost is dominated by downtime:
How civil contractors use it
Use case
Hardwired TTT inside the engine cowling, drawing from the 12V loom. Battery-backed so the device survives a power cut. Geofence the site. Alerts on after-hours movement.
Use case
TTT inside the case for high-value survey instruments. Tamper alerts on case-open and motion. Last known location follows the case if it leaves a job.
Use case
Across the fleet, TTT runs as a Business plan with role-based access. Foreman sees the active site; the workshop sees plant that is in for service; the owner sees the lot.
None of these is a silver bullet. Locks, lighting and insurance still matter. TTT is what tells you where the gear went after the locks fail.
FAQ
The questions tradies in this trade actually ask before they buy.
Business plans include API access. Pull location, asset status and tamper events into your existing system on a webhook or a pull-based feed. We will work with your fleet manager on the spec.
No — one tracker covers the asset it is in. For a tilt-tray with plant on top, mount one tracker in the tilt-tray itself and another in the plant. They report independently.
Yes for shock-mounted installs. For high-vibration mounts (directly on a wacker pad or a breaker shaft), expect shorter device life and consider mounting on the carrier vehicle instead.
Yes. Permissions are flexible — set by user, by asset group, or by site. Common pattern: superintendents see everything, leading hands see their crew, subbies see only assigned kit.
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What thieves actually look for
The psychology of opportunistic tool theft — and how to be the boring target.
How to stop tool theft
Twenty practical steps grouped by ute, trailer, shed, plant and records.
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