I used to manage a fairly large U-Haul center in the Bay Area.
When one of our tracked vehicles was reported stolen, we’d receive a call from corporate shortly after letting us know that the vehicle had been “seen” at such and such intersection. The company would send someone out to do a “drive-by” and if the vehicle was still there, police would be contacted. We’d attempt this every day or so until the vehicle was recovered.
We were instructed to inform law enforcement that the vehicles did not have gps tracking, when in fact most of the smaller and newer vehicles did.
I had no idea about this 72 hour law, but it makes some of the weird stuff they asked us to do in these situations make a bit more sense.
“Green Is My Pepper”
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