Share Your Wisdom On Paging/cellular Alarms?

Nick M.

So... my new truck is 6 months old, a full-size extended cargo, the shelves are in and loaded with my tools and lots of new ones as well as inventory and so on...
I park it in the driveway out front and I can't frickin' get to sleep with worryin' about some motherless breaking in and helping himself to my stuff.

A electrician buddy of mine has had his rig busted into a few times and he's ready to camp out with a 12 gauge and a pot of black coffee..
(I've even considered a dog that lives in the truck at night ...)

I've looked at pager alarms and the Tattletale portable but I'd like to find something in between ... anyone out there got some words of wisdom..?

GregS

If there are major concerns, get a puck lock. There's no breaking those, and they'd have to do some major loud damage to try and pry the doors open.




You know as well as I do the shotgun approach won't go over well here

Maybe park it in a garage, or surround it with a fence.

I've never messed with those alarms though.

woodmagman

I quit alarming homes and vehicles, something always goes wrong with them and when it comes to owning a fleet it is even worse. Put the truck in a garage or locked yard. A good dog is a must.....if it is on the road...flame throwers would be my first choice.

RobertCDF

Key locks no matter what are VERY easy to get around. Dont fully trust any sort of lock.

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neolitic

Anyone tell me how to hook-up a Taser to the door handles?

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dougger222

The Excursion and F350 both have Python two way pager alarm/remote start systems and they go through aaa batteries really fast.

The F250 has a Viper one way alarm/remote start and it's really good on batteries. Been on the truck for over 210K miles and still works great.

My brothers F150 has a similiar Python two way alarm and one night he woke up to a punk with a hammer on his brand new truck. The kid was on bike and my brother on foot so he didn't catch him but the punk said, "Sorry, your truck was the wrong truck it was somebody else from the bar". If he would have caught him I'd suspect a homicide to the small town he lived in at the time. If it were me he'd have lived in my basement/torture chamber for a while!

Actually I would have just hopped in the truck and ran him down, then got out and run his bike over a few times.

fathersonfab

You could always go with one of these as a work truck!

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Chris G

What part of Toronto are you in? In downtown you are much more likely to get a brick thrown through a window than get a lock picked. It is mostly smash and grab. A remote alarm would have the crooks long gone by the time you got there. It is getting really bad around here. They watch you all the time. If you get more than 50 feet from your tools, they are gone. If I haver to make cuts outside, my mitre saw is chained and locked, even if it is in a fenced backyard.

Nick M.

Ok, more information leading to more questions...
A local van outfitter (Treadwell) tells me that there's an alarm (possibly Viper) that has a pager function (that's nothing new) and it also has a "driver page" function in that there's a way for someone to tap on a particular part of the windsheild (?) to call the driver of a unattended truck.

So, I like the silent alarm/pager idea but I can't find the "driver call" function on any of my searches so one again, can anyone help?