Stolen Traffic Lights present a new challenge for the Automatrics MTrack recovery team
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- Bear with us, as we are still in the process of releasing our back-lock of theft recovery operational videos from 2020. Delays through various reasons, but many more on their way soon !
Valentines night is trashed when a customer calls to advise a set of traffic lights has been stolen. They may not be worth a huge amount of money but they are a crucial part of road safety and pretty difficult to replace.
Automatrics way up options to locate the stolen traffic lights, with storm Denis on the way, no GPS signal coming through and a local finder unable to attend. There seems only one choice remaining, a 300 mile drive to Lanark in Scotland to conduct a radio frequency find operation.
Soon comes news that there are two sets traffic lights are missing, will the second Automatrics MTrack theft recovery tracker connect ? Its the first time the Automatrics team have needed to track-down stolen traffic lights, where have they been stashed ? Follow Automatrics recovery operation to see how things pan out.
A big "Thank You" shout out for the prompt response from Police Scotland officers and the rather bonnie 101 call handler.👍👍 - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
If I were your customer, I could not express enough how much I would appreciated your company to take the time to drive a 12hr round trip just to help me find my equipment. Props to you guys, again.
Worth the money for that level of service really.
I am one of their customers with plant in SW France , Richard said if I ever lose them he will fly out and find them for me ! Top service from a top company
@@stevebeck9470 shit, seriously? What a service
How to get the service??
Props to them for doing things the correct way, for caring. It's extremely rare to come across a business doing things 100% to perfection and stand by what they say they do. Hats off
"Automatrix MTrack Revovery Operation" - Music in my ears
So true these videos make me happier than they should
@@liams2033 Why they shoud not mate! It's justice! If I had anything wort tracking I'd be all about MTrack. Of course after considering that i'm bases in Germany
It’s too long between innings
What is nasty hammer ?
I have 4 hammers how can I check if they are nasty, may have to get rid of could be dangerous .
18:47 - Tattoo on this forearm - "Better to die standing than to live on your knees". That cop means business.
I never thought I'd care about a stolen set of traffic lights, yet here I am. Great work!
That's commitment. 300 miles and 3am searching. Gives me faith in your product. Keep up the good work, more vids please!
Should expect that kind of service for the yearly price
Imagine if you drove all that way only looking for the 2nd set and found them being used as they were. You’d be very unhappy with that customer. But at least you recovered the first set.
I guess if I got paid, I'd still figure I did my job. I found the lights. ;)
@@l337pwnage 😂😂😂
its vids like this one that persuaded my to part with my cash and buy six units now with them
"Bear" with us.
"Backlog"
It's great to see you guys back posting videos!!
nice to see a video again, i was addicted to those videos, better than netflix.
I love how you point out things that the police should take notes of, like the dna on the pipe, the radio light being on (usually a sign the wiring has been tampered with), it's almost as if you are training them in what to look for, I hope you're getting paid for the training :)
Yeah, but its hard to tie DNA to a crime. Your car probably has DNA of a bunch of people in it. It takes a lot of time and effort to do right and only tends to be used in murder cases and such. These criminals seem like slippery types and all let stuff cool down the same way. Unless they get caught red-handed they are unlikely to be caught
@@kapytanhook I feel like this is exactly the reason to gather evidence. And no I wouldn't suggest getting a lab team out to every dodgy van found. But it's the future.. You can scan prints as well in the field as you could in the lab 20 years ago.. Straight into a digital database in the cloud.. And swabs are cheap. We could equip officers with some rudimentary evidence gathering tools. So that on the day Crims A and B get unlucky, they end up getting tagged to a bunch of stolen recoveries... Not just whatever petty offence they did to get noticed. Anyway, I know I'm kidding myself.. But they say if you stop dreaming you die.
The radio light comes on when the door is opened on a transit
@@M3rVsT4H fair points, but it seems like the cops are already so bogged down with silly admin stuff and victimless crime policing.
I'd rather see them track down and catch them in the act. If dna can be used for that, that would rule
@@M3rVsT4H or just leave the van and wait for them to come back to it.
Then apprehended them and beat them to death in front of the local community, explaining if you steal things that don’t belong to you.
You will end up dying in pain.
We need to crest some respect and order amongst us
Great job. Also, props to Police Scotland, not only not making you wait all night like some forces would, but they always seem very friendly and helpful.
Police don’t make people wait all night intentionally.
@@CymruEmergencyResponderYes they do.
@@BitsofSkin No they don’t.
@@CymruEmergencyResponder They really do. I know first hand.
@@BitsofSkin They don’t. It’s nonsensical to do that.
A friend of mine at one time had a used range rover but as it was for the company car, they all had TRACKERS fitted. At one point three of them got stolen all at once but were not only recovered, but thieves were all knicked. Proved to be worth their weight in gold. Great to hear such good results.
They are extremely cheap, free software on apple store, been using it for 6+ years now to track all vics
£10 for a second hand one. No subscriptions.
@@mrcoiganable2988 Yea the cheap GPS/SIM ones are good but if there is something you really want to protect/track then a true service like in the video will provide RF tracking for when GPS/SIM fails (like when in a garage/possibly shipping container)
They probably got a hot meal a bed then kissed on the four head and released
Cracking f***ing job lads. It's so nice seeing people go above n beyond to get peoples stuff back.
I live down in South London, is there any work down these ways? This really does seem like a rewarding career.
Their last video of the stolen Triumph motorcycle was in Fulham SW6 so yes they get work round London.
@@Gassit They work out of their office in the midlands somewhere. Looks quite fun tracking bastards down, going to court & seeing them get done.
That's not a career though - that's driving around finding property that's been nicked. That's very low down on the jobs ladder - about on a par with cleaning council toilets.
Emagin a live stream hunt. 🙌😎
@@raisagorbachov that’s a bit much. Really lol
Best tracker company out there in my opinion. Response 24/7 and really superb, go the extra mile. Enjoyed this video, after this long shift I hope all involved got some well deserved rest.
I’ve purchased the MTracker can’t speak anymore highly of the company thanks
The more I watch these videos the more I am talking myself into getting one of these. Especially as I might be getting a high risk vehicle it just makes so much sense. Props to you guys for providing unbeatable customer service and props to police Scotland for doing a grand job
Getting into stealing traffic lights?
Work in a different field but we have similar tracking, it can sting a bit in terms of the cost to fit and monitoring but the day you need it... usually its a game changer
This could be an awesome tv programme, as long as it’s kept exactly like this
Madness... clicked on this video randomly, and turns out I live one street away form where these were recovered from!!
Do you know the thieves?you probably know the scum,everyone knows who the scumbags are where you live.
They're lying in the van with the flap-door in the front of the lights open. I was waiting for you to check if the battery was in it!!
One thing that I noticed from all these videos is that police is so much nicer anywhere outside of London.
I think your find everything is better outside of London
Much nicer than Manchester.
I'm guessing the police are generally somewhat less stressed anywhere outside of London.
Lanark is a small country town which I am assuming is not crawling with master criminals. Therefore the police will not be so stressed fighting high-level crime. By the way, the town is pronounced Lann-ack, not Larn-ock!
If u need a tracker up in Scotland il happy do it, glad you never stacked miles on the focus rs , great video mate
Less cash in the pocket for organised crime, great work!
I’ll be using your trackers in the future!
Excellent video. Always enjoy going on the hunt with you. Please post more.
Great job lads, the Scottish police seemed very easy to deal with compared to what you sometimes come up against.
Make the Met look like the clowns they are!
@@lemmy9996 I was going to suggest the Met ought to take some lessons from them...
@@GARDENER42 I think it's more likely Police Scotland in that area weren't run as ragged, not as under-resourced.
Whereas London being what it is I expect the Met perpetually have too much to do.
@@artgreen6915 It's no so much their response, as their piss poor attitude & negligence.
They don't even bother to follow up on a really easy nick, as in criminal identified, criminal's dna on scene, witnesses to his involvement...
...no further action.
@@GARDENER42 I can understand why when they do all the work and the CPS just throw it back in their faces with refusing to authorise charges etc, or the courts refusing to sentence accordingly. The police will focus their resources elsewhere as a result, where they can make a bigger impact.
Top Police Call Centre staff!!
Great to see these being posted, look forward to the new videos of the recovery operations. Brilliant customer service 👍
Great to see you back! 👍👍
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Richard and the Team.
Well done to the Police for a quick response.
Proper reality TV , love your uploads 👍
Top job Richard, dedication to the job pays off great recovery👍🇮🇪
Please start uploading these regularly I've watched every single video and they're brilliant 👍
That's the plan!
Nice to see the lights were actually working at the end and not stuck on perma stop as I increasingly see with temp lights these days! :-)
Great video as always, great to see a professional doing whatever it takes to get a result for the customer, sorry to say it is not a common thing anymore.
I agree, nothing worse than 2 or 3 temp lights jammed on red, it turns into a spaghetti western style staring contest. It's who's gonna be the first ,and run a red light to break the deadlock.
They just stick temporary lights up instead of repairing the proper ones, get out clause by local council. Yet they can come out 5 times in 4 weeks to my knowledge and repair the temporary lights on a main major route A41 for 4 weeks so far.
I could watch these all day!! Great work, thanks for the upload
Love these videos! Listening to that RF bleep made me think of our old CB treasure hunts back on old AM CB before FM came in.
We'd hunt for the beacon using a loop antenna which give you a direction to the beacon pointing away from the flat sides of the loop. So two locations would give you a cross on the map. Ideally you'd use three readings that gives you a small, triangular location for the beacon.
This is where the phrase "Knocked into a cocked hat." comes from. That little triangle being the cocked hat.
Buy you could use an RF direction finding loop on the roof. It'd speed up your finds i think.
We do this every week on the 2 mtr band...Radio direction finding is great fun!
@@ianharling9569 I'm glad it still happens. For me 27mhz AM CB lost it's magic when UK FM came in and i got into SW listening, scanning & RF to PC stuff.
Still, fun while it lasted!
Working on making a "Fox" for the 2m and 70cm amateur bands ready for spring. Should be good fun!
Can use loops, yagis or even a phased dipole pair which creates a sharp null rather than a prime lobe
@@dasy2k1 yes have used switched dipoles in the past but personally I prefer a simple HB9CV two element beam for 2 mtrs and then program into the memory channels on the transceiver the various image frequencies and harmonic of the main frequency and have great success with that.
Showing your age there chap. 10 10 lol.
I don't mind waiting while you clear the blacklog. :-) These videos are a great education on the challenges in theft recovery, and proof that just slapping a GPS tracker on it is clearly not enough.
Awesome, thank you!
Always look forward to your videos, thanks for posting. I hope see more in the future.
To the people who stole the temp lights thank you! Always a pain in the arse for everyone. Cause so much disruption and trouble
Great to see you back! Very nice story as always, please keep on posting new videos for us!
Brilliant so good to see this channel Booming again best wishes keep up the good work and Merry safe Christmas
I'm a simple man- I see a new Automatrics MTrack video, I play it and give it a thumbs up.
Great result Richard , plenty of hours on that one , the customer will be well happy
I think the police & the people that deal with them, imagine they should know everything from day 1 of commission. In real life, everyone is learning everyday and we should be proud to not-know-everything rather than pretend. Good job Mr AutoMtrack
Did I just hear that correctly ? “The traffic lights aren’t worth a lot of money only about £2-3000, but the batteries in the base ARE worth a lot of money ranging from £100 to £200 😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent work, glad to see another upload from one of my favourite TH-cam channels.
I love the sound of the Doppler effect on the beacon as he drove past the vans. the change in the sound of the bleep as he got closer, and as he went past.
You can see who would steal traffic lights in your head. We all have an image of them. And it's probably bang on the money.
You know it!
"The whole light is about 3,000 quid"
"The crims like to sell the batteries for 150"
Try sell a traffic light..... It's probably not easy.
@@4kirb Precisely, not the typical thing someone buys on impluse when browsing ebay!
@@TheRCBiker Ebay's no fun when you're sober!
@@TheRCBiker no, but they're definitely the thing to buy on impulse at an equipment auction, especially if nobody's bidding.
@@TheRCBiker Yea, got to say I can't remember the last time I went on ebay and was like "You know what I'm missing in life exactly right now? A random set of traffic lights!". I mean I'm only 27Yrs old so I have another 20 ahead so who knows.
I like how you're telling the cops what to do. Someone needs to.
Most of that the cops would have done anyway, if not at the scene then after it was recovered and no one likes being told how to do their job so if you want to stay on the right side of them better to be a bit more diplomatic. So re. the VIN say something like "Oh look, they've hidden the VIN number! Typical!" rather than giving them a blunt lesson on cross-checking VIN's with number plates. And these may have been cops early in their career, knowledge comes with experience.
@@mfx1 to be honest I think he was rattling things of for the cops to do because in previous videos he's been pretty pissed off with the law as they've come back and said it's just not worth doing forensics on car/van/bike. So I can understand why he was doing it. I'm sure he wasn't trying to be disrespectful or patronising to the 2 policemen
Keep up the good work, love watching this channel 👍
Police not knowing the difference between a postcode and a numberplate!!!! Crazy
Not police, a 111 operator
Non emergency, basically just someone to call if you have a minor problem
@@Alucard-gt1zf But still. Really basic stuff.
Love seeing more of these recovery operation videos again.
More please ! great videos with a great ending !
Thanks you never know how things turn out, mixed emotions at the end , slightly narked they weren't stolen but super happy to drive into them in the end as defo getting tired at that point 👍
Just found this video and I enjoyed the hunt. Subscribed and look forward for the next hunt👍
excellent service, paid for itself straight away!
Thank you for uploading a new video, find them very interesting please upload some more 👍😃
Richard sounds so experienced. He knew more then the cops!
Guy's... so nice to see a video...always enjoy them. Alex.
Nice to see you guys back love your content need more videos great stuff
I don’t know how this got into my recommended, but I’m glad it did. This is great!
Great stuff, deserves a TV series!.
Looking forward to the back log of footage. Absolutely love this videos!!
So great to see you posting these again.
Brilliant mate it’s always a pleasure watching your content 👌
Santa gave me an AutoMatrics video .. so happy.
Excellent and good to watch another result 👍
Christmas come early, an Automatrics upload!
Brilliant, Brilliant result. Big respect to Automatrix MTrack
It's Christmas night and I've eaten enough to feed a family of 6. Everyone else is on the last hurrah with the cheese board and I'm in bed watching this.
Nice to see you back again. We’ve missed you. 😊
Awesome recovery! And a funny ending considering the contractor didn't know the other set was installed at a job site! LOL!
So glad your back🍀🇬🇧👍🏼
Absolutely amazing that you Richard had to advise the old bill on the job in hand, good on you fella.
I think it's more of a case of him saying it out loud and/or before they get round to it.
@@JimDownWell yes I think your kinda right there.
Who'd have thought that watching this would be so interesting! Nice one
Need to see more of these love them
I liked that the make of the lights was Pike(y) ;)
This is like the ultimate treasure hunt. How fun is that!!!!! I'd love to do this professionally
Great videos these, pity more are not uploaded.
Yesssss keep the uploads coming pleassseeeee!! 👌🏻👍🏻
imagine you're going some remote location searching for some stolen item. Then you have to stop at a traffic light and find out you've just found what you're looking for.Awesome.
February 2020. Mate you need a word with your editor. Love the vids tho please keep them coming
from one asset Security company to another, well done!
Thanks thats appreciated 👍
@@AutomatricsMtrack do you need a finder for Northamptonshire?
I've missed these so much!
This was awesome, very cool adventure, good job guys.
Wonderful experience done two job find as well stolen van
Nice job and nice to see you in my neck of the wood, long way from base for you 👍
LOVE these videos!! More more more pleeeaassseee!!
Ahhh Feb 2020 when the world was a simpler place 😩🙈 thanks for the video
Good to see you still make vids man
Good video again, that some sort of river would be the River Clyde.
Brilliant piece of kit these tracking units
That’s some impressive work you do…
Great to see the police doing something after the last few videos. Keep em coming!
Another great video from a company who care and do what they do very well ! I have faith in your tracker .... Less so in my ability to remember to 'arm' it ... oops
I’m shocked you managed to get an immediate response on a Friday night!
Need some more of these videos to watch over Xmas holidays
More more more please, love these videos
Love this guy and his company.
God I love this channel definitely the best I come across have a good Xmas and hopefully get some more videos soon stay safe
Cheers ! more on the way soon
I always enjoy your videos, did find a stolen truck using radio direction finding many years ago, the vehicle UHF two way radio was still handshaking with the base when called. (not a deliberate security system). Bizarrely fun driving around London in the middle of the night. Well done once again, amazing entertainment too.
Nice
Another great video 👍🏾
Nice work mate!