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FUEL COST CRISIS * USA - Hijacker targets big rig loading up with diesel
A hijacker made off with a tanker truck just as the driver was topping off the load of diesel fuel, authorities said Tuesday
Houston,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle, by MIKE GLENN -May 6, 2008: -- ... The driver was pulling away from a fueling station along Texas 225 about 3 a.m. Monday when a man, possibly armed with a pistol, jumped into the cab, authorities said... He told the driver to head toward the South Loop and the Gulf Freeway and later switched seats before ordering the driver out of the vehicle, Houston police said... The truck — minus the fuel — will probably be found within the next few days, Jim Sutton, director of Washington, D.C.-based Highway Watch, part of the American Trucking Associations said... How much fuel the driver was carrying was unknown. On Tuesday, the average price for a gallon of diesel in Houston was $4.125... If the truck isn't found, Sutton said it will probably be cannibalized for parts... Whoever took the truck probably has some behind the wheel experience with 18-wheelers, Sutton said. "It takes some skill driving those big tanker trucks," he said...
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