American Truckers At War

With diesel at $4 a gallon, thieves nationwide are becoming more brazen about stealing it.

Steve and Carol Edwards of Siloam Springs, AR, learned that on Sunday, March 22, when Steve pulled into an overflow lot at a truck stop in Tucumcari, NM. Carol said the next morning he discovered he was short on fuel.

“When he got up, he was calculating how much he had left to get to his next fuel stop, and it didn’t calculate right,” she said. “He thought something was wrong, so when he did get to a location to fill up, he realized he was 75 gallons short of what he should have had.”

Carol said about six months ago someone siphoned fuel from their truck in Amarillo, TX. They’re now planning to buy locking fuel caps at about $100 apiece.

In an unrelated story, the Houston Chronicle reported that Richard Owens, 30, of Richmond, TX, was arrested March 20 on a charge of stealing 1,400 gallons of diesel fuel from the underground storage tanks of two service stations.  More from Landline Magazine