Best Security Upgrades for Williams Trailers
Best Security Upgrades for Williams Trailers
I absolutely get it. Trailers are a pain in the backside to protect. There’s no way to immobilise it without taking a wheel of it. Even then there’s nothing stopping a thief coming with a spare wheel. Its defiantly likely if they have reconnoitred the site. But here are the best five ways to protect your Williams trailer, or trailer of any brand really.
Taking a wheel off
It sounds like I'm taking the Mick. But this works really well on opportunists. The pros are pretty self explanatory, you can’t pull a trailer if its missing a wheel or two. The cons are pretty substantive though. I mean apart from loosing the wheel because you can pretty much promise that you’ll put it in a safe place and then promptly forget where the safe place is. It would be a faff to put it back on if you need a trailer in a hurry. Not to mention if a thief has done any kind of reconnaissance then they’ll come with a wheel ready.
Wheel clamps
Just like taking a wheel off this will physically stop a thief from being able to move a trailer. It does solve a lot of the hassle of removing a wheel, just the main thing to worry about is loosing a key. Where the con comes from the size of a farm. The average size of a farm holding in the UK is 56.6 hectares, though this varies widely by country, with the smallest average in Northern Ireland (38.7 ha) and the largest in Scotland (110.3 ha).(Source 1). The point is the trailer could be parked a distance away. Although sound carries better in the country side a thief could attack it with an angle grinder and you’d be known the wiser. (Source 2)
Noise and light alarms
This works really well for all equipment, if you park your trailers in the same spot every evening then this is a really effective way of protecting your equipment. Noise alarms can be installed fairly cheaply and easily and worth on the basis of a microwave sensor sensing movement, a light and/or alarm will then activate. Thieves hate light and noise, and any noise or sounds you hear you can then investigate. The cons to these kind of systems is they are prone to false alarms, and a security system which experiences lots of false alarms becomes less effective, I like to call this the boy who cries wolf effect. You can pretty much bet your house on the fact the one time you decide not to investigate is the one time the local scallywag is attacking your trailer with an angle grinder. (Source 3)
Trackers
A tracker such as the Moving Intelligence battery powered tracker will give you real time locations and movement alerts. A phone call when you’re watching TV gets your attention. Then just follow it on the app. Call the police, call your posse. Do whatever you need to do, but prompt action helps you get your equipment back. The major con to this is the movement alerts rely on you having your phone on you at all times, however Moving Intelligence have thought of this and you can set up to three people to receive the phone calls, so you, your partner and your farm manager all getting alerts gives you time to get one step ahead.
Truth is that there is two harsh truths about vehicle security. One is security is an inconvenience, be that a financial one or a practical one. The other is that security works best in layers, the more you do to protect your assets the harder it is for a thief to undo your efforts and strip you of your property. If it was my trailer I would combine a clamp and a tracker. The movement alerts on the Moving Intelligence Wireless Tracker will pick up the impact of a thief trying to get past the mechanical security, then you have time to address the threat
