09/10/2026
"It’s a horrible feeling for any business owner - you work hard for your machinery, and equipment theft can cripple daily operations."
When thieves raided Shropshire Tool Hire's yard in the dead of night, Business Owner Jack Peate faced a common nightmare across the UK hire sector: a stolen commercial wood chipper.
In plant and tool hire, losing a high-value machine causes direct downtime, cancelled client bookings, and substantial replacement delays.
Fortunately, Jack had planned ahead by tracking his equipment with ABAX.
"When one of our chippers was stolen from our yard in the middle of the night, we feared it was gone for good. Weeks later, our ABAX tracker pinged when it connected to the ABAX network all the way up in Lancashire."
Jack immediately transferred the coordinates to the local constabulary:
"We handed the coordinates to the police, who arrived within 30 minutes and recovered the machine. The tracker did its job, the police did theirs, and ABAX proved its worth in a single day."
A massive credit to Jack and the team at Shropshire Tool Hire for protecting their investment proactively, and to the police officers on the ground who acted on the location coordinates within 30 minutes to bring the asset home. 👏
