Are truck leasing companies allowed to track their vehicles with GPS?

post a link (not hear say) that a leasing co. bank or owner of a vehicle must tell anyone that it has a gps tracker...

it is not against the 4th amendment for the legal owner (and you are not the legal owner until you pay it off) to gps track a vehicle they own and no they don't have to tell you about it.
just as it's not illegal for the company you are leased on with to gps track you

 

Now there may be an issue if it was traditional finance with you on title and bank having lien. But last I saw LM was "renting" a truck and then you owned it at the end.

 

So.... Lone Mountain is an front for the FBI? The 4th amendment does not apply to private business, as fourtycal stated. Also, have you ever seen the LM lease agreement? Maybe it's in there...

 

####, they went easy on you here...

 

dude you are confusing placing gps trackers by police and law enforcements agents to gather evidence in a criminal proceding with a financial institution tracking property with a lien on it.

and whether its a lease or financing with a lien on it , the property may be tracked with a gps tracker if the lendor desires.

and the lone mountain agreement is a lease, it differs in a few respects from a rental. but their lease seems to work for many people.

and for the life of me, i simply cannot understand why anyone would object to a company keeping track of collateral. if ya make your payments you have no problem, but if you are someone who stays one day ahead of the repo man , you might object to it.

i wonder why lone mountain didnt show up when my truck was parked inside my metal shop for 12 days from may 17th to may 29th,2012????


i got the answer , my payment was made on the due date of the 15th as it has been for the last 20 months.



basically sphauler, you have things severly confused on the gps issue and your brother the travel agent does to.

 

But you're talking about POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Not about a PROPERTY OWNER keeping track of THEIR PROPERTY.

A lease is nothing more than a "long term rental agreement", with "potentially" a buy-out-clause at the end of the lease. The LESSOR, still RETAINS TITLE to the property leased, and is still the LEGAL OWNER.

The LESSEE only pays for the "license" to use the leased property, in accordance with the terms of the contract. So I don't see any LEGAL REASON WHY - LMTL or any other company, could not use a tracking device to verify the location of THIER PROPERTY, and would not require a lessee's "permission" to do so (though if they were "nice" about it - they would bury it somewhere in the contract, and, we have no idea whether or not THEY ACTUALLY DO).

OTOH - (as Bill mentioned), a BANK LOAN gives the purchaser TITLE (and ownership) of the property, with the bank putting a LIEN on the title, as a "security interest" in the property being financed. Since the purchaser IS THE OWNER of the property, the finance company would not have any standing to place a tracking device in the vehicle, without the owners knowledge or permission (and doing so would likely be grounds for a LAWSUIT, but not necessarily a "civil rights or criminal violation of law").

So, since a LMTL repo job is not going to see a criminal court. Though in some states, similar to not returning a rental car, you could be charged with a criminal offense - seen it done a number of times, (though not necessarily with a leased Class 8 ), but I have seen a friend with a "leased" BMW, who, upon demand from the leasing company, REFUSED to return a car he had defaulted on his lease agreement with (by failure to pay), and he got charged with GTA and possession of stolen property, when the leasing company called the car in STOLEN.

Rick

edit to add: so, if you're planning to "boogie" on your leasing company - BE CAREFUL, you may end up leaving a coop or roadside stop IN HANDCUFFS - and I don't think they're going to give a rats patoot whether or not you're under a load or not.

 

what law are they breaking.....?????? POST A LINK

what part of it's not your vehicle until it's paid for don't you get.....?

yes they can put a gps in their truck and no they are not required to tell you about it... if they did tell you about it and you didn't make the payments you would fine it and rip it out then how would they find it to get it back.....???