what have you had stolen off your rig?

I been fortunate. I'm real protective of my high dollar loads. We have loaded trailers stolen alot.

I was at a Pilot the other day and some foreign speaking trucker told me his $100 cash advance was stolen?? The police and manager watched the guy on video. The clerk told me it was a trucker that worked for the same company??
The rest of the story??

 

In certain "secure drop yards" in South San Diego County, you can't leave your lights on your dropped wagon or they will all magically disappear. Ya hafta remove everything, right down to the gladhand seals, or they'll get stolen. I once had a brand-new 53' Great Dane trailer with brand-new TK Smart Reefer stolen from in front of the 24th Street Terminal gates, steel kingpin lock be ######. Locks are for honest people, hardcore thieves have equipment up to the task, and the trailer was a great temptation---didn't even have the permanent plates yet.

However, the most unusual automotive burglary I ever experienced predated my CDL-A. I used to have this p.o.s Plymouth Arrow back in my college days, mechanically sound but ugly as sin... I made dinner for this gal on her birthday before attending a night class down at City College. Some crackerhead broke into the Ply-Mouth and stole the cheap stereo, as well as the pots and pans I had used to cook dinner for this gal, right? But the weirdest part of this break-in was that the crackerhead took a climbing photo out of my glove compartment... a stylin' shot of "Rock On" (5.10b/c) at Mission Gorge in San Diego. I guess the crackerhead had no life, so he had to take a little part of mine... sometimes I wonder where that photo went.

 

I've been able to keep my stuff on the truck, but if it isn't nailed down, it's locked up. I've had most of my trouble with panhandlers begging for money. I just point at the name on the trailer and say, "Look who I run for...you think I have money?" However, I've heard of a Swift driver who had all of his hubcaps and lugnut covers stolen while he was getting some dinner.

I've heard very bad things about that Liberty t/s in Phoenix and avoid it at all cost. Heard there was a driver shot and killed there last year during a robbery, among other things...the usual lot lizards, dope dealers and light-fingered folks meandering through.

 

Not only did he get suspended for 2 runs, but his bag is probably still laying in a ditch on I-71......

 

Never had anything stolen, but I would not feel secure in a truck stop, don't like, wont sleep in them, I do my best to stay far from most of them.

 

Had somebody steal all the trailer lights and they even cut off the connectors at the old TA in Conley Ga.

I was checking tire pressure and had a lizard open the driver's door and start to get in, I saw her and told her no way. She said she just wanted to use the radio, but when I got back in the truck, she had stolen my sunglasses off the dashboard!

Lost about 40 gallons of fuel at the J in Jackson GA a few months ago.

 

Worst thieves we have are guys from our own company. One of our O/Os got caught on tape stealing fuel, etc from the company trucks at the terminal. Of course he tells everybody he got fired cause he's black. Sick of that race s***.

Gonna tell you a wierd/funny tho. Years back I did P&D in Montreal and used tom overnight at the Fleur de Lis motel in Dorval. This particular time we got whomped by a blizzard and boy, the yard was full of trucks. So full in fact that the last guy in parked his tractor trailer next door. Next morning I wade thru the snow to the restaurant for breakfast and there's cops everywhere. Seems somebody stole his truck right from under his trailer. Yup, left the loaded trailer parked neatly and took the tractor. Remember, this in the midst of a hellacious snowstorm.

The wierd part? Next morning the truck was back. Hooked back to his trailer, cleaned inside and out (fingerprints I guess) and full of fuel. Apparently, they had used the truck to hijack a trailer from a nearby liquor warehouse and was making a "statement" to the local cops.

 

And they say there's no honor in thievery