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nsxman2001
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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Location: Mount Vernon, NY
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Stolen diesel fuel... |
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What in the world is going On.. I could not believe it my friend called and asked me to bring my 2 empty 5 gallon fuel containers to the area where he parks his truck. Seems like last night someone siphon over 100 gallons of fuel out of his truck.
When I got back home I did a google search (stolen gas and diesel) and this is happening alot around the country. has this happen to anyone on this forum?
also found this:
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articleAID=/20080326/NEWS/803260371/1001
what do u guy think of this article? |
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Dispatch_This
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
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Location: Barstow, CA.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I stopped by the J in Barstow last week- They had a shelf stacked with those plastic tube hand-siphons. WTH?? They could try to make it a little tougher on the Zoomers... |
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kos
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I bought the locking caps.
http://www.fueltankaccessories.com/ |
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Fozzy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it ought to be a crime to sell those hoses anywhere within 50 miles of a location that sells fuel. Who is kidding who here? I gave some manager a earful about them once. I asked him if this was just some plot to double sell fuel to people. Selling siphon hoses at a truck stop is like selling heroin at a grade school. We have locking fuel caps on all of our equipment that parks away from secured lots, they just pry the caps off of the tanks now... :roll: I would love to see a few bodies start turning up here and there. With these #@$%^@ hoses stuffed into their throats.. |
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mike3fan
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
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Location: michigan
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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My dad has had fuel stolen out of his WalMart truck twice in the last 2 years.
They are instructed to park in the WalMart lots whenever possible now. |
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SoCal79
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| That is no joke the locking caps would not have stopped the guys with the sharpened pipe that they were somehow driving into the top of the tanks and pumping into a storage tank in the back of their pick up. I will try to find the link and put it up later, but it looked like a very thick pipe with a "T" handle on top and one end was sharpened like a giant syringe and the other had a threaded fitting & hose attached to a pump then into a contracter style in bed fuel tank. I believe this was in Montebello CA. |
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Joymax_Trans2
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I purchased heavy duty keyed locking fuel caps 2 years ago and we have not had a problem. |
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nsxman2001
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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Location: Mount Vernon, NY
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Joymax_Trans2 wrote: I purchased heavy duty keyed locking fuel caps 2 years ago and we have not had a problem.
where did u buy the locks? I've seen them on Iowa80.com but they are 130.00 for a set. Is that the normal price?
I believe that if they really want the fuel they will damage the tank to get it out but if its locked and there are other truck that have there tank open I think they will go for the easier target.. |
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Joymax_Trans2
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| We purchased the locks from Freightliner for $250.00. |
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nsxman2001
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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Location: Mount Vernon, NY
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for the info.. |
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heavyhaulerss
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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Location: north alabama
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Quote: stopped by the J in Barstow last week- They had a shelf stacked with those plastic tube hand-siphons. WTH?? They could try to make it a little tougher on the Zoomers...
maybe the truck stop does this for the guys who gets his fuel stolen. the victom can buy the siphon hose & a fuel container to get some fuel from another trucker if he has not enough to get truck started to get to fuel pump. bedides most thieves would probably have their burgulary tools already with them. |
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slodsm
Joined: 18 Jan 2008
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Location: Tyler Texas
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Not an OO yet, just getting some info from this forum but when I got up this morning at the J's in Denver, my pass side fuel cap was off and I was empty on that side.
Asshole was quite, I slept right through it. |
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heavyhaulerss
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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Location: north alabama
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Asshole was quite, I slept right through it. Quote: I was quiet enough to let you sleep thru it, & YOU call me names ? what's this world comimg to.
:lol: [[/quote] |
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dieselmanic
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| i used to fuel at end of shift, but now i fuel at the beginning. seems to me that the thieves are hitting full tanks. perhaps lying in wait watching truckers filling their tanks? always seems to be somebody hanging around the fuel islands. |
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Doghouse
Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to wait to fuel, but now I have locks on the caps. |
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