This is a strange world we line in. Friday I was at a job, and a person rang wanting to speak to me about tracking a vehicle. I asked him to ring back in an hour. No problem he said, and he rang back about 30 minutes later. I guess that should have told me something.

Thankfully I was away from the client for a couple of minutes when he rang back early, and told me that he was wanting to get a tracking device installed in his car ( or more correctly his wifes car) as he thought that she was cheating on him. The guy seemed to want something cheap and urgently. Then again most of these cases do. And they are an area I try to stay away from – after all, the market is limited to one per customer. That is no way to make money. I normally forward them onto a competitor, or talk them into a private investigator.

For some reason I never seemt to get the calls from the wife about her husband cheating… I do not know if they try to use humans to do the job rather than machines or what. Guys tend to love gadgets, so I suspect that guys will try to solve their relationship problems with a machine. Women on the other hand I am guessing will use a private investigator since they can do the job with some human input.

I personally cannot really understand the mentality of people cheating on a partner. In this situation they are not treating their partner well, nor are they treating themselves well. I guess my view is that a relationship should always be compared to not being in a relationship, rather than being in a different relationship.

The problem with using GPS to track a car is that not only might it not be illegal, and not only might it make the problem worse if discovered, but it might not actually answer the question that is being asked. So, a car is at a certain address at certain times. What does that actually mean? Does her car being outside a small (five or six shop) shopping centre mean that she is getting her hair cut, or is she having an affair with the butcher (or similar things for guys)… And GPS tracking will not tell you that!