Up next in 10
Valuables vanish every day, from toolboxes at the work site to trailers, tractors and expensive gear. Not to mention that there are almost 5000 cars stolen every month. Bluetooth based trackers are cute but if you want to protect valuable gear, you really need pro-grade tracking devices. That's where the Carlock Portable proves a winner.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got some hands-on experience with the Carlock Portable GPS Tracker and found it darn useful if you have anything valuable you want to track. It's a cheap insurance policy and if you have a food truck, airstream trailer or just a really nice electric guitar, the Carlock Portable will report exactly where it is regardless of whether it's a few miles away or across the continent.
Check it out at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2yXzIqu
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
this will help you track your car a
0:02
trailer a toolbox
0:04
even your kids let's check it out Dave
0:14
Taylor here and I'm looking at this this
0:16
is the car lock portable and this small
0:19
device actually is very cool it lets you
0:22
track anything that you put it in so you
0:25
can put this under a cushion in your
0:27
trailer you can put this in a car you
0:30
can put this in your toolbox at the work
0:32
site because toolboxes keep vanishing
0:34
and you can follow this with The
0:37
Associated app and find out where the
0:40
heck that toolbox ended up so this
0:43
actually is an extension of car locks
0:46
existing obdii system and I've reviewed
0:49
this in the past you could check out
0:50
that review but the earlier unit
0:53
basically plugs into the onboard
0:55
diagnostic interface in a car and then
0:58
it not only tracks the car's location
1:01
but it even gives you useful diagnostics
1:03
like you know oil needs changing or
1:05
there are some issues with your timing
1:07
system or whatever whatever your car can
1:09
generate the car lock system can
1:12
actually figure it out and tell you that
1:13
information this is a little bit more
1:16
specialized so it doesn't plug in to
1:18
anything it's a completely
1:19
self-contained unit with its own cell
1:22
phone I mean somehow somewhere in here
1:24
is a 3G cellular communications device
1:27
and as you can see dimensions wise it's
1:30
about five inches by four inches by two
1:32
and a half inches so it's not the
1:35
tiniest thing but still considering what
1:37
it does it's pretty amazing 3.3 ounces
1:39
and like I said you can monitor anything
1:42
that you can slip this in including your
1:44
kids backpack not only that but there's
1:47
a button on it that is the SOS button so
1:50
if your kid did have it in their
1:51
backpack or you're really wealthy client
1:55
and they push the button and held it
1:57
down for a couple of seconds you'd get
1:58
an SOS on your app and it would tell you
2:01
where it is so that's really nice also
2:04
includes real-time notifications well
2:07
here's one with my vehicle being moved
2:09
and then the app is for Android or iOS
2:13
and it's very easy to work with you can
2:16
get location here's an example of my
2:18
location and let me just talk for a
2:21
second so you'll see there's like that
2:22
big green circle there and that's a
2:24
deliberate design that is like the
2:26
immediately adjacent zone and you can
2:29
just tell the system that you know
2:31
within that zone everything's fine so if
2:34
someone needs to move your car to get
2:35
another car out of the parking lot or
2:37
driveway
2:38
that's fine but tap on that little lock
2:41
icon and suddenly what happens is you're
2:44
in lockdown mode and you will get
2:46
notifications like the one we just saw
2:48
that would say the vehicle has been
2:50
started the vehicle is moving and you'd
2:52
be like what that's not right so really
2:57
nice easy interface you can tap on
2:59
another one of the buttons and now you
3:00
have your trip history log now imagine
3:03
you run a fleet of cars and you have
3:06
this in all the cars in your fleet or
3:08
you have a teenager who says I swear dad
3:11
I go to school I go to work I come home
3:14
then you can put this in their car
3:17
they're not gonna notice this right and
3:19
then you will be able to look at their
3:21
trip history and say you know you don't
3:23
just go to school and work because
3:25
there's all these other places and all
3:27
these other addresses we really do need
3:29
to talk not only that but from a kid
3:32
perspective it also can actually keep
3:34
track of how they drive oh there you go
3:36
see there's a harsh harsh acceleration
3:39
warning you don't really want to get
3:41
those and that's not just for kids that
3:43
could be for your fleet too you might
3:44
find out that one of your truck drivers
3:46
is driving like they're in the Indy 500
3:49
and that's not good for what's in the
3:51
truck or the truck or your insurance so
3:54
this could be great information to know
3:56
now let me tell you that this device
3:59
does not last forever on a charge but
4:02
it's a pretty darn long battery life
4:03
it's five hours for a full charge and
4:06
then you get 14 days of use out of it so
4:10
that's pretty nice basically the way I
4:12
figure this is if every Sunday morning
4:14
you collect them all and plug them all
4:17
in and that every Sunday night you put
4:19
back in all of the vehicles or trailers
4:21
let's say you have an Airstream trailer
4:23
and you're worried someone's going to
4:25
take off with it this is the perfect
4:27
device for that just remember every 7 to
4:30
10 days to give it a charge not only
4:32
that but you can get notifications in
4:34
the app saying that the battery's low so
4:36
that's pretty easy so the only thing
4:38
left to talk about is the price and the
4:39
price is a little tricky because it
4:42
comes with cell phone service so this is
4:44
actually not just a little device you
4:46
buy once and you're good it actually has
4:48
a subscription fee but before we get
4:50
there can I ask if you can go ahead and
4:52
click on that subscribe button and
4:54
instead of worrying about subscribing to
4:55
this subscribe to me and then I'll tell
4:58
you about how to subscribe to this cool
5:01
and feedback give me any feedback I
5:03
appreciate that
5:04
now Carlock portable advanced 3g gps
5:08
tracker the subscription fee for the
5:12
unit is nine dollars and 60 cents a
5:15
month or a hundred and thirteen dollars
5:17
a year and you're thinking wow that's
5:19
pretty steep but in fact it's really
5:21
inexpensive compared to for example your
5:25
trailer being ripped off or your
5:27
expensive tools from the job site
5:28
vanishing when you go to work one
5:30
morning how much did it cost for you to
5:32
collect all those tools yeah so ten
5:35
bucks a month is a pretty cheap
5:36
insurance policy it also has a base fee
5:39
so again Carlock portable ninety nine
5:42
ninety five you can pick it up at
5:44
amazon.com and you can learn a lot more
5:47
about it and check out the company at
5:49
car lock dot co so this is Dave Taylor I
5:52
need to slip this back into my vehicle
5:54
because I want to make sure I know where
5:55
it is at all times so I will catch you
5:58
in my next movie
6:04
[Music]
Consumer Electronics
GPS & Navigation
Science
Gadgets & Portable Electronics
Home Alarm & Security Systems