Stolen Fuel while parked for the night

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  1. lonelyswmtrucker

    lonelyswmtrucker Medium Load Member

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    i got a policy; steal fuel out of my truck & i catch u doing it, u got serious consequences
     
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  3. flyingmusician

    flyingmusician Road Train Member

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    100 gallons in St George, SC about 2 months ago while I was sleeping with the engine idling and the a/c running. Wilco there seems to be happy hunting grounds found out a couple other company drivers and another guy here on the forum have had fuel stolen there as well. Management there didn't really care and even tried to talk me out of calling the cops. Why should they care? Had to refill my tanks from their pumps.
     
  4. Hardlyevr

    Hardlyevr Road Train Member

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    It does not take much to pop the locking caps, a large set of channel locks will do it. I learned, after being unable to unloack mine due to winter road grit jamming in the key slot.

    But I think it would be nice to return to the days when they shot horse thiefs......
     
  5. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Really messes with your fuel bonus too. It's hard to get anyone to adjust your fuel consumption to allow for a bona-fide theft. It can happen anywhere, and it's the worst of the no-class drivers doing it. Has to be o/o or lease operators. The risk is too high for a company driver to risk getting caught only to get a piddly fuel bonus.
     
  6. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Somebody needs to create a "fuel theft alarm", probably factory installed that looks for rapid fuel level drops while stopped and enters alarm mode when fuel level drops more than an inch inside of 5 minutes. Or some other sort of fuel loss detection methodology.
     
  7. InTranzit

    InTranzit Light Load Member

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    Nice, really f n nice! I guess that's why I never fuel at Wilcos.
     
  8. InTranzit

    InTranzit Light Load Member

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    I guess that the best defense for that would be popping a cap in the thieves a s s while he's popping locks on your fuel tanks. That'll put a stop on this none sense up in a hurry. But ya can't because of all this yellow bellyes politicians making crappy laws protecting the criminals.
     
  9. Grumman

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    Rig it like a James Bond car, just don't blow it up while you're in there.
     
  10. SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    NO, it's also crappy company drivers who sell the fuel out of their tanks and then steal to refill it so it doesn't become conspicuous. If you get caught stealing fuel, you should have you CDL revoked indefinitely.
     
  11. Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Yeah, I had 100 gal (drivers side tank) siphoned while sleeping at Joseph City, Az. Loves in '08. Funny thing, I woke up to what I thought was an APU running pretty loud and turned over and went back to sleep ! Gawd, I wished I would have looked out my sleeper vent or window and caught those *&$^#%$#. Would have called 911 and broadcast over CB for a hand. Figured it out the next morning, what I thought was a loud APU was really a siphon pump running.
     
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