Rumors and warnings that never came to pass

Ah yes, Hegenberger and San Leandro Ave area of Oakland. Good times!

 

Rig up a trip string like they do at cabins. Take a spear fishing gun or a cross bow underneath the trailer. When they pull that handle that string pulls the trigger and shoots and arrow in them.

 

I check my fuel caps daily. I can count two times my fuel has been stolen. The most recent happened in June 2019. At least 40 gallons were stolen overnight on my reefer tank. I even posted about it in this site (see link below). The other one happened about a couple years ago at a shipper in San Juan Bautista, CA. Some 10 gallons were stolen overnight from my passenger side. Only the fuel above the anti-siphon insert was stolen.

ALL Reefer Fuel Stolen Overnight! PLUS Level-1 Inspection!

 

One of my friends learned the hard way that those anti-siphon inserts are not anywhere near foolproof. he parked his tractor in a truck stop several years ago and checked into a hotel. He returned to discover someone had removed the drain bung's and almost all his fuel was gone. The pressure on those plugs when a tank is full is tremendous and it will make a mess. However, with the right tools, you can take most of the fuel. Most thieves use a pump connected to your battery, some of these pumps can empty a tank in a short amount of time. This is one reason when I parked and was leaving my tractor I tried to always leave little fuel.

 

Those anti-siphon inserts leave enough of a hole to get a narrow hose through. You might not siphon quickly, but you can siphon.

 

I have been using a fuel lock on my truck tanks for a year and half now. I haven’t noticed any fuel theft since then. I mostly put it on when my tanks are full or if I don’t trust the area. I don’t use fuel locks to completely get rid of theft as that is impossible. Fuel locks or most locks are just deterrents.

 

The only way I know to secure these bungs is either to weld them (HIGHLY DANGEROUS DON"T DO IT) or to use some form of epoxy glue in the threads. These bungs are near the bottom of the tank and are mainly there to drain the crap out of the tank. I think a reefer tank also has them.

 

Got a pic. The fat one with the bulging large intestines.

 

Looks like a lovely neighborhood.

Definitely some blivet action going on with that Ford being overloaded.

 

I always looks at locks in the fact they keep an honest man honest. At the end of the day a thief if he wants something hes gonna get it but honest harry sees something with no lock on it he might take it . if its locked hes less likely. Especially when it comes to flatbed equipment. That stuff has a a way of growing legs if its not locked up