[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051013/NEWS02/510130377/1014]Thief robs rig of 210 gallons (link)[/url] By Shelly Whitehead, Post staff reporter:

From the fuel thief who sucked the tank of an occupied tractor-trailer dry, to the Florence man police found sucking on a sock-full of model plane glue along Mall Road last week, the bad guys have been particularly bold guys around Boone County lately.

Take the still unknown ne'er-do-well who woke up a Virginia trucker last Tuesday morning as he sucked the last of 210 gallons of diesel fuel from the trucker's gas tank at the T/A Truck stop lot in Walton.

EPES Transport System driver Wayne Frazier told a Boone County Sheriff's deputy he pulled into the truck stop lot about 8:30 p.m. Oct. 3. The trucker filled his tanks, then parked for the night.

But, just before 5 the next morning, he was rudely awakened.

"At 4:50 a.m., the truck stopped running, and he woke up," said Boone County Sheriff's Department spokesman Deputy Tom Scheben.

"He got dressed, exited the vehicle and he noticed a rubber hose coming from his driver's side saddle tank. ... So he followed the hose to a truck parked two spaces away from his truck."

Frazier ran to get a flashlight from his truck cab so he could read the license plate on the suspect's truck.

But, when Frazier returned, the suspect trucker was launching his getaway, Scheben said.

"Upon returning, the truck in question pulled out of its space in haste and nearly struck him" Scheben said.

Frazier "stated that the truck had a pump on it and was pumping fuel from his truck to it, as opposed to just siphoning the fuel."

The thief's elaborate efforts yielded 210 gallons of stolen diesel fuel, which Frazier said had gone for $3.27 a gallon the night before, or $686.70 total.

[something_awfull]

A similar story occured in Australia, a guy with a van full of large tanks and a pump would 'sidle' up to a gas station and actually steal diesel straight from the storage tanks, except he got a way with 45,000 Litres (~12,000 gallons)



fuel theft

[Bedevere]

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[skiwi]

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[hoplite]

Many long haul truckers idle all night while they sleep. THe FEMA ICE trucks may or may not be idleing the tractor engines but the diesel engine powered freezers on the trailers run 24/7.

Just another reason to keep diesel fuel prices higher than they are now- the trucking industry is an ineficient, overly subsidized drag on the economy. Cargo belongs on trains- the simple act of cutting long haul trucking 50% would save the thousands of lives lost to drug addled white trash teamsters.