Pirtek Battles The Equipment Thieves
Pirtek, the leading provider of Fluid Transfer Solutions, is tackling the growing problem of farm equipment theft by offering agricultural customers the opportunity to protect their machinery and vehicles with the Datatag system.
The company, which operates from 90+ dedicated Service and Supply centres across the UK and Ireland, is supporting the CESAR Scheme, the official security and registration scheme designed by the police and security experts to deter theft and to aid in the recovery of stolen equipment and vehicles.
Statistics suggest that as much as 1.0 million worth of agricultural equipment and vehicles are stolen in the UK each week. This is a problem that is causing a huge inconvenience to our agricultural customers and which is costing the UK economy millions each year, says Pirtek Business Development Director Alistair Wiggins. As a major supplier of emergency hose replacements to customers across the agricultural spectrum, we see it as our duty to help confront this growing problem.
As the authorised aftermarket supplier of the CESAR system, Pirtek and its 90+ Centres can help customers at all stages of the Datatagging and CESAR Scheme registration process. With a single phone call, customers can arrange for their equipment to be datatagged and fitted with a number of CESAR Scheme identification plates that act as a visual deterrent to an opportunist thief, Wiggins continues. Our Centres will also handle paperwork required to register the machine or vehicle on an accredited 24/7 call centre database to make it easier to recover in the event of it being stolen.
Wiggins reports that the installation of the CESAR transponder system can be carried out in a matter of minutes and can even be completed during a lunch hour. A busy agricultural company cannot afford to have its machines or vehicles out of action, even for something as important as protecting it against theft, he says. But our highly trained Mobile Sales and Service Technicians can install the system extremely quickly, allowing the machine to get back to work while the CESAR paperwork is processed at the local Pirtek Centre.
Further information is available from:
Pirtek UK Ltd.
35 Acton Park Estate,
The Vale,
Acton,
London.
W3 7QE
Tel: +44 (0) 208 749 8444