Effective security strategy stops plant thieves
Posted: 04 July 2008An effective security strategy is essential if you want to keep the thieves at bay.
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Ringway's approaches to stopping plant theft
Posted: 04 July 2008Stopping plant theft doesn't have to be rocket science, as Ringway found out to their benefit.
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Location and tracking systems offer efficiency as well as security
Posted: 04 July 2008Location and tracking systems offer more potential, more functionality and more variety than any other products in the field of plant security.
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Marking makes plant easier to trace
Posted: 04 July 2008Recovering a machine won't help the owner if the police can't find out who it belongs to.
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Criminals looking to sophisticated methods to steal plant
Posted: 04 July 2008 Plant theft now is about where car crime was in the early '90s," according to Detective Constable Ian Elliott from the Met police stolen vehicle squad and...
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Interview with the National Plant Intelligent Unit's Ian Elliott
Posted: 04 July 2008Colin Sowman talks to Detective Constable Ian Elliott of the Metropolitan Police about the recently formed National Plant Intelligence unit.
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Measures to take to protect plant machinery
Posted: 04 July 2008Criminals see plant theft as a low risk/high profit business, with security virtually non-existent on many plant items - but there are several measures you can take to help protect your machinery.
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A-Plant's A-Trak: an 'eye in the sky' for hire customers
Posted: 04 July 2008A-Plant believes beating plant theft is not just about stopping machines going missing and minimising insurance; it is about improving service too.
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Assessing the latest locks, bolts and immobilisers for plant
Posted: 04 July 2008We look at some of the products available on the market to stop thieves making off with your kit.
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Shanco saves piles of time with Multibreaker
Posted: 02 July 20082t Piletec cuts out the need to switch between breakers.
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Hyundai invests £165m in South Korean facilities
Posted: 02 July 2008Hyundai has announced a £165m expansion plan for its production facilities in South Korea.
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Rethink on CPCS testing spaces
Posted: 02 July 2008Proposed space requirements could preclude training providers from becoming test centres.
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New guidance on lifting with excavators
Posted: 02 July 2008New guidance on Lifting Operations in Construction When Using Excavators has been published.
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Digger driver jailed for manslaughter
Posted: 30 June 2008Digger driver Michael Ernest Roys of Doncaster has been sentenced to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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ConstructionSkills offers workshops on Grants scheme
Posted: 27 June 2008Construction Skills is continuing its consultation about the Grants Scheme during a series of half-day workshops.
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Lavendon see turnover rise by 37% for last five months to May
Posted: 25 June 2008Powered access rental group Lavendon (parent company of Nationwide, The Platform Company and many others) has seen turnover for the five months to the end of May grow by 37% in comparison to the same period last year.
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Tools-of-the-trade exemption for truck drivers
Posted: 25 June 2008Scaffolding erectors, utilities workers, road builders and plant operators who drive trucks as part of their job may be able to claim 'tools of the trade'...
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Plant in brief - 24 June 2008
Posted: 24 June 2008Speedy Hire's pumps and compressors businesses have been pre-approved as suppliers to the utilities sector by management information...
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South East hire firms lukewarm on DPFs
Posted: 24 June 2008Only half of respondents would supply machines with DPFs.
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Confusion over towing regs leaves industry vulnerable
Posted: 24 June 2008Light vehicle users fall foul of a maze of legislation regarding towing trailers.
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