Secure Vehicle Escorts
Atex SPS offer our customers Secure Vehicle Escorts in the instance where high value, high risk trips are undertaken. The consept is simple and very efficient. An Atex SPS vehicle, called the "Spotter" follows the truck transporting your high risk equipment.
The "Spotter" is manned by a driver and a radio operator and they follow the truck from collection through to delivery.
Planning of the Secure Vehicle Escort is crucial and is managed by our Atex SPS control room which sets out a predetermined rout that the truck has to follow. The "Spotter" is responsable to radio the control room every time the truck reaches one of the predetermined points on the rout.
Atex SPS control room keeps record of the progerss in real time and also follow the vehicles on two seperate sattellite tracking systems all at the same time!
A maximum of two trucks are allowed to be tracked by one "Spotter" at a time.
Pro's of the Atex SPS Secure Vehicle Escorts system:
- Constant control room tracking
- Two independant satellite tracking systems per vehicle
- Constant real-time radio communications with the "Spotter" vehicle
- Constant eye contact with the truck
- Early warning of any problem experienced during the "high risk" trip
- No FIRE ARMS! it is a fact that highjackers target and nutralize any armed personnell first when attacking 'high risk" convois
- Relatively low costing
Cons of using conventional Armed Escorts:
- Creating a false sense of security
