Truckstop Scams? Lets post our stories.

Sort or a scam, but I've been approached by cargo thieves in Florida asking me how to pay for a CAT scale ticket, while on scale. This was at a flying J North of Tampa.

There are two of them, one chats you up, the other goes to the back of your trailer to check your seal and try to figure out if your cargo is something that can be moved. I managed to pull off the scale before he could close my vent door.

And I've ran into several of the others mentioned.

 

Has anyone ever nabbed a good deal on the road?
I hear guys selling their "$500" GPS units for $300 all the time on the CB.

I once witnessed a guy sell his old iPhone for $40 over the CB at the J in Warrenton, MO. Probably an older guy that didn't know used cell phones are worth much more than that.

 

And probably just one?

I had an idea once for a device that could save fuel. It was an adaptation of the stratified charge concept that Honda implemented in the mid '80 CRX, and even before.
It was a device that would convert any 'normal' engine of that time to use that advantage with very little modification.

The sad thing is, Toyota already had a patent for the same thing.
Even sadder, that idea is still sitting unused.

That CRX got over 50MPG on the highway.
With a carb - not even fuel injection.
And that was back in the mid 80's!
Power was not lacking either.

The biggest scam might be the automobile industry in regards to real fuel economy.
That technology has been around for a long time, but it is not even used today.

 

Years ago in San Antonio I got a deal on a Rand/Mcnally truckers atlas, the current year, laminated, the real deal. I'm sure it was stolen, but the guy only charged $10 right out the case. He had several left in the case and a lot of inquiries coming in on the radio.

 

One of the guys I drive with scooped up a RM TND tablet for $200 when they first came out. Said guy selling them had a whole box.... Needless to say but I was pretty Jealous. I've fallen for the $20 fake chain... Wore it until it was completely tarnished a few months later. I did score a big bottle of Imitation RL Blue Cologne at a Flying J in Alabama for $5.... Can't even beat that online

 

Best deal I ever got was on the Navy ... went ashore in Brindisi, Italy. Got hit up by a hey joe wanting to sell a watch. He wanted $20, got him down to $5 and a pack of cigarettes.

Get to a restaurant. I was with a shipmate, we go in and there is bunch of other sailors there. The waiters are hitting up the sailors asking to buy their lighters. One asks me if my watch is for sale ... I say sure, $40. I sold it to the waiter for $25 ... covered the dinner and drinks for me and my friend and put $10 in my pocket.

 

Gotta love all the low dealings, both with the 'criminals' and the 'buyers'.

It is the same thing, by the way.