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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 01.24.2008

Owners Search for Driver, Semi
1/23/08

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CHARLESTON, Mo. - How could a semi-truck disappear into thin air? That's what authorities in southeast Missouri and Texas want to know.
The owner of a local trucking company says her truck driver vanished nine days ago along with the semi and the cargo inside.
That happened in Houston, Texas.
The trucker's family says he's since made contact, but the business owners say they're still out of luck.
"If he's out there please call us. We can work with him," Melissa Tatum said. But she says she and her husband can't work without their semi-truck.
Tatum says the driver loaded the truck in Chicago, Illinois and then headed for Houston.
"This particular truck had steaks in it, imported chocolates, corn dogs, Gummi bears," Tatum said.
She says the truck and trailer added up to about $ 60,000 in value.
"The freight was anywhere from about $250,000 on up. But he did get four drops off," she said.
Investigators with the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office entered information on the missing truck into a national police database.
The only sighting so far was at a truck stop Wednesday afternoon, but when Houston Police got there, they didn't see the truck.
Investigators say they are investigating the possibility the driver may have been involved in other similar instances.
Meanwhile, Tatum says she just wants to return to business as usual.
"It's the only way we provide for our family. We're just getting back into trucking business," Tatum said.
The missing trucker is from Tamms, Illinois. Investigators there still list him as missing, but his mother says she spoke to him Tuesday.
She says he had some personal issues, and is waiting for a bus ticket to come back home.
If you have any information on the truck or the trucker, call the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office.

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myminpins · **^ Top** #2 01.24.2008

So why won't the mother tell them where the heck the truck is???? Why do people shelter losers like this??? The people just want their darn truck back!!

roadkill439342 · **^ Top** #3 01.24.2008

Mother says son has "personal issues". Is that PC for DRUG problems?

prisonerofthehwy · **^ Top** #4 01.24.2008

What could he possible do with that load. I can understand if it was a load of copper or something similiar, but food..... how do you get rid of a tractor trailer load of food so rapidly? He'd have to get rid of it lest it spoil, or keep on refueling the reefer unit...... which would have pin pointed to his location by now.... so he had to sale it right? Or just left it all to ruin? And no matter what the food is, I'm more than sure it's going to eventually start to stink..... and that too would pin point the location....... but..... WTH?!

I can't even fathom this.....

poppy · **^ Top** #5 01.24.2008

if they mismanaged his pay, i would say he sold the load for that amount. another version of take home pay maybe.

PirateBiker · **^ Top** #6 01.25.2008

Well, sometimes there are disagreements, and sometimes...people that are less than above board play the victim when a driver strikes back after being screwed, but without knowing the story, there is no way to tell....but I bet there is another side of the story.....if he was waiting on a ticket to go home, he left the truck for one reason or another. Could need repairs, could be pay, could be out of service by DOT (and don't act like OUR law enforcement would know what the other branches are doing)

I do know there are small companies and individuals (DAN POST TRUCKING) that screws every driver that ever works there, which is why they never stay long. Let's face it, to many operations want you to drive equipment that needs work, tires, etc. or wants to hold back on your pay, basically operating on the drivers held back wages.....those guys should all be out of business.

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