Diesel Fuel stolen

El Toro · Aug 2, 2013

Local paper has an article in there that someone has stolen 2400 gallons of diesel fuel from a school. No suspects so far. Hal

J.Wondergem · Aug 2, 2013

That's a lot of fuel. Had to be taking it a lot of little times, or had a big truck.

Old Bob · Aug 2, 2013

I live in west central Arkansas. This is a small farming community of about 3750 people. During planting season this year there was 2 different farmers who left their tractors parked in their fields while they went to do some other chores and when they returned their tractors had very little fuel left in the tractors fuel tank. The fuel was stolen in broad daylight. These thefts have never been solved.

AzPeapicker · Aug 2, 2013

Hal

It looks like if you want to keep what s yours you going to need a ARMED GAURD or a PIT BULL with aids to guard it ..

John
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OliverNate · Aug 2, 2013

local farmer round here had two semi loads of corn stollen by his hired hand last fall i think

Dean Olson · Aug 2, 2013

Fuel theft is common across the country. I don't leave my semi parked unattended with full tanks or it will be gone, 240 gallons. The crooks cruise in what appears to be mobile repair trucks. Hi volume pumps and 55 gallon drums make it easy and fast. It appears that they are fueling the truck not sucking it dry.

Yes I have locking fuel caps. They know how to ruin those getting them off.

dcarp · Aug 2, 2013

Thieves in the Houston area drove vans filled with 50 gallon drums, would park over the inground fuel tanks filler caps at night. Drop a line into the tanks and fill the drums and leave
One of them would go into the store and buy something to distract the clerk while they lowered the fuel line. One group estimated to have stolen 2000 gallons from one store alone.

oldtanker · Aug 3, 2013

Back in the late 70's while I was on my 2nd hitch at Ft Riley Ks. the fuel storage facility was hit to the tune of 10,000, yes 10K at one time. Because they had tankers coming in all the time they figure that one slipped in and stole or a driver never actually unloaded. Lot's of heads rolled over that to include a guy who lived next door. He was just an E4 but was on duty when the fuel went missing. Another case they would up missing 500 or so gallons of gas from an extremely secure site at Ft Bliss. Turned out the Sgt of the guard and one of his guards were stealing 20 or so gallons each every 3-4 days to go "wheeling" off duty. Couple of years ago here farmers were driving tractors home from remote fields or parking them way back off the road because of people stealing. I had to leak a tractor in a field I really didn't want to and was OK but that week someone hit my pickup in my drive for about 30 gallons of diesel.

Rick

dustycoal · Aug 3, 2013

We had them drilling holes in the fuel tanks to get past the locking caps on the trucks.

DoubleR · Aug 3, 2013

If I was the dishonest type I would have no problem stealing diesel fuel from the local school district I drive bus for. Just a little at a time over a period of time. It was probably an inside job in your case. Although some times I could see where it may be just a mistake in there book keeping.
I normally put a lock on my own upright diesel tank for the farm when I'm gone. Although I would probably not miss 20 or 30 gallons if someone was able to take it.

jim johnson · Aug 3, 2013

A highway patrolman told me once that the thieves would use air to get the fuel out of truck tanks. Seems they would make a plug with an air valve and a hose coming out. Air in the tank would force the fuel out in a very short time.

Jim

rodgernbama · Aug 3, 2013

Heard of someone who went to visit someone in one of our local hospitals and parked in the parking garage. When they came out to leave they noticed the low fuel light was on. Somebody stole his while he's visiting sick folks.

El Toro · Aug 3, 2013

I have a Chow and she guards the back yard like she owns it. She's killed every rabbit that has come in. She can out run them. Hal

El Toro · Aug 3, 2013

Three electricians from Aberdeen Proving Ground where I retired from were convicted of stealing copper wire and other metals. They probably were fired too. They even ordered a fancy wire stripper paid for by the government. The copper was worth more if the wire was bare. In 1969 there was a supervisor in another branch convicted of trying to steal a Detroit diesel engine. He was a WW2 vet and had a lot of years with the government. They fired him too. The federal prosecutor wanted to give him jail time.
Hal

Spook · Aug 3, 2013

We had a bunch of manager's and supervisor's fired over the years, usually for some form of embezzelment.

Billy NY · Aug 3, 2013

Whats sad about that Hal, is that those were probably great jobs, greed sure is an evil thing.

Mike (WA) · Aug 3, 2013

Heard about guys in an electrical supply outfit carrying out heavy copper wire, one lunch-box full at a time. Cut it the length of the lunchbox, get about 10 lbs. every night. Fairly profitable over the long haul.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 3, 2013

I remember back in 1994-1996 these guys (including the guy that ran military vehicle museum in MN) at Fort McCoy Wis. stole 153 military vehicles valued at $13 million. I wonder if they are out of prison yet?

EricInSEI · Aug 3, 2013

In the late 70's a forklift driver at Campbell Hausfeld in Harrison, OH was caught stealing electric motors. He just drove a skid of them out and put them in his pickup (employee's parking lot). I don't know how long it took them to catch him. When I worked there (Summer 77) I claimed they gave IQ tests and those that failed became forklift drivers.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Aug 3, 2013

They built a new power plant north of here about 20 years ago, and many of the trailers used for deliveries had open tops. They would give a crane operator 450, and after they cleared the security gate would drive long side the fence and stop, then he would hook a trailer mounted compressor or welder, etc. and lift5 it over the fence and set it down inside their trailer, then they would drive away. huge amounts of money of were lost at that site.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

Game cameras dont lie either. Had fuel hose on ground a couple different times. I was suspicious. Set up game camera and wow those things work. Quick call to icc fuel tax hotline and let them deal with it after dipping tank on thiefs pickup that had my red dyed farm fuel in it. First offense 2500 bucks and next 5000. Too many kids driving expensive diesel trucks!

oldtanker · Aug 4, 2013

DoubleR, I missed the 30 or so gallons of diesel out of my pickup because I had just filled it.

Wal Mart fired an assistant manager near me . He was taking returned computers apart and stealing internal parts like hard drive, memory sticks and CPU's then eabying them from the store computer. A very short time later they caught another customer service manager (still paid by the hour) going to lunch without clocking out then clocking out later so she could shop.

I know from my time in the Army that a lot of folks see nothing wrong with supplying their kids with pens and pencils, toilet paper and light bubs for their apartments and houses from the supply room. When I was fist in the Army the Jeep and several other vehicles used common oil filters. The tanks were air cooled and I know our motor pool went through a heck of a lot of anti freeze every year (one year 45 55 galloon drums). Guys were sealing oil and anything else they could get their hands on. And most of them didn't see anything wrong with what they were doing. One year in the late 70's the US Army spent more than 19 million dollars just on pen and pencils.

Rick

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