What would you do????

[Rusty McNeil]

We have hired a lot of better techs from companies that installed GPS on company field service vehicles that were supposedly approved for personal use, where a company vehicle was used to "sell" the job to a new hire, its worth about $5/hr in my book since I do not even OWN a personal vehicle except for the Vmax.
The employees are taxed appropriately. I pay about $300 a year for mine in federal income tax for the personal use privilege.
The only thing they really care about on marked vehicles is they don't want to see them sitting in front of a bar or something inappropriate like that.

These are companies that don't have a dispatch that NEEDS to know where their vehicles are to satisfy delivery or scheduling issues. We do not serve the "civilian" market like an AC service etc type companies.
So GPS's were a big brother move that doesn't play well and sends people looking elsewhere that are good enough to have other options.

Installing GPS tracking in these vehicles just creates an "assumed" condition of untrustfullness, something I don't think our company would ever go for.

I even pulled the headliner out of my truck and disabled the GM Onstar antennae, even though it is supposedly not being used anyway (no subscription) That's how I feel about the whole thing.

 

[Fire-medic]

Your OnStar is never 'off.' Even if you don't subscribe, they can still track you. If you get into an accident, the system automatically connects w/your position, even though you don't subscribe. The airbag deployment triggers it.

An antenna disconnect may solve that issue, being tracked when you don't want to be. The police are also using the GPS on vehicles and the cellphone tower-to-tower tracking to make cases against unsuspecting criminals.

One of the GM employees whose job had the privilege of allowing him a take-home car for a week and who got a new Corvette under that plan, was fired after OnStar had him well-into triple digits and ratted him-out.

We have hired a lot of better techs from companies that installed GPS on company field service vehicles that were supposedly approved for personal use, where a company vehicle was used to "sell" the job to a new hire, its worth about $5/hr in my book since I do not even OWN a personal vehicle except for the Vmax.
The employees are taxed appropriately. I pay about $300 a year for mine in federal income tax for the personal use privilege.
The only thing they really care about on marked vehicles is they don't want to see them sitting in front of a bar or something inappropriate like that.

These are companies that don't have a dispatch that NEEDS to know where their vehicles are to satisfy delivery or scheduling issues. We do not serve the "civilian" market like an AC service etc type companies.
So GPS's were a big brother move that doesn't play well and sends people looking elsewhere that are good enough to have other options.

Installing GPS tracking in these vehicles just creates an "assumed" condition of untrustfullness, something I don't think our company would ever go for.

I even pulled the headliner out of my truck and disabled the GM Onstar antennae, even though it is supposedly not being used anyway (no subscription) That's how I feel about the whole thing.

 

[VMax-Mike]

Im just joking around. Toddler said he was going to get in front of my truck and take me out i hope he was only joking. But joking aside our trucks do have alot of this stuff also has lane alert and i hate it. A big buzzing noice in the speaker if you cross the line without blinker on.

 

[Karmakatt]

Turn into Ghost Rider and if there are no other vehicles around, ride my Vmax up and over his truck, pulling him through his windshield than starring into his soul to determine if he's in fact "evil". If he is, send his soul to hell, if not, slow down and drop him off the highway.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

Your OnStar is never 'off.' Even if you don't subscribe, they can still track you.

An antenna disconnect may solve that issue, being tracked when you don't want to be.

That's kinda what I figured on the antennae thing. Knew for sure it's not really off due to no subscription.

There are some methods to disable it completely that I found on some other forums but haven't delved in to it.

Now to just figure out how to erase the ECM black box data at the push of a button ; )


I HATE lane alert, my wife's Infinity FX35 had it. Total pain in the *** but on it at least there was a button to turn it off (that defaulted back to on every time it was started, like traction control)

 

[Traumahawk]

Now to just figure out how to erase the ECM black box data at the push of a button ; )

I've heard of people getting into accidents, and then either the police or the insurance company getting into the black box, to see the speed of the car at the time of accident...etc.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

I've heard of people getting into accidents, and then either the police or the insurance company getting into the black box, to see the speed of the car at the time of accident...etc.

Absolutely correct. If there is any dispute about what happened or if someones story doesn't add up that info is accessible.