Protect Your Biggest Assets

Ensure your heavy equipment is safe when it’s left unsupervised

Apr 29, 2014 | by Paul Nicolaus |

010 Keith Carson Web — To prevent theft, find ways to avoid leaving equipment unsupervised whenever possible, particularly in remote areas. When equipment is left unattended for lengthy periods of time, however, find ways to make it difficult to move.

Heavy equipment theft is not only a growing problem in the United States but a costly one. The National Equipment Register estimates that the annual associated price tag is between $300 million and $1 billion.With members of organized crime rings involved in many of these heists, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recover items that have already gone missing. The National Insurance Crime Bureau — a not-for-profit organization that partners with insurers and law enforcement agencies to combat insurance fraud and crime — estimates that the recovery rate is less than 20 percent.Because of this, prevention is not only important

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