A JCB farm loader stolen by thieves in the UK was traced and recovered less than 24 hours later in Holland after an international police pursuit.
The TM320 articulated wheeled loader - with a value of around £75,000 - was taken from the premises of JCB dealer Cotswold Farm Machinery in Cheltenham, sparking a hunt by police forces in four countries.
The machine was tracked initially at Dover and then through France and Belgium as it was transported on a curtain-sided lorry.
It was eventually recovered nearly 400 miles from its original destination and the driver of the lorry arrested after police put in place a road block near to Rossum on the Dutch/German border.
Simon Carrington, Managing Director of Cotswold Farm Machinery, said: “Realistically it would probably have never been recovered if it had not been fitted because the police would not have had the resource to try to recover it without exact details of its location.”
A JCB spokesman said: “Almost 35,000 machines around the world are now fitted with JCB LiveLink as an increasing number of customers realise the system’s great benefits. In this case LiveLink really did demonstrate its value in helping recover a stolen machine.
