Mysterious entry into my truck, and truck moved without my permission.

It’s obviously a self driving truck and didn’t want to get towed.

 

As of a couple years ago freightliner was using less than 2 dozen keys.

I'm pretty sure that you can get unique ignition and door keys and locks if you want to pay a little extra. Or better yet, wire in a kill switch hidden somewhere on the truck. It can be as simple as a 12v toggle switch if you know what wire to put it in.

 

My thoughts exactly. Thats why my first response was not hate full in nature to the driver or the mover.

 

I HATE idling my truck and leaving it to grab a shower etc, but with the dog I have no choice. My 780 volvo had the ishift, I could unplug the shifter power and it wouldn't go into gear. Made me feel a little safer that it would take somebody with some amount of knowledge to make it go.

 

Huh... I didn't even think of asking another company for permission to borrow a space in their yard... wouldn't be quite as convenient, but it would certainly be a helluva lot better than borrowing the corner of my local church's lot (with the pastor's permission) when I'm on home time...

 

I don't know. It's called a (mostly) educated guess lol

 

Honestly and with all sincerity, I would just leave this alone and chalked it up to good luck. Nobody messed with your stuff inside the truck, in most cases they probably would’ve had it towed costing you at least $1200 if not more. Not to mention the explaining you would’ve had to do. Just forget about it and Move on…

 

At least they didn’t move it with the bulldozer or excavator.

 

You don’t know that they didn’t .

and you Probabaly don’t have to cage the brakes to move it.
The parking brakes are not that strong .


On the I owned , I always added parking brakes on both drive axles .

I’ve done it before with cars.
We were paving a dirt parking lot at a factory and there was one car that some dummy parked in the lot ignoring all the signs and cones and ropes

we had a 12 man crew, lots of equipment and several truckloads of hot asphalt waiting .
we hooked a rope to it and used the bobcat to drag the car out of the way .

 

SIMPLE...Remove fuse/breaker that goes to engine ECM and that will not allow it to be cranked!!!