User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Trucks World News
Google
 
Loading

Apr 12, 2016

CAMOUFLAGED TRUCK * Mexico: To transport stolen fuel

* Guanajuato - Thieves build tunnel, camouflaged trucks to steal oil


-- Authorities in central Mexico say thieves built a camouflaged truck to transport fuel stolen from government pipelines. Police found a tunnel built by pipeline thieves in the same state of Guanajuato last week... The discoveries show the sophistication of thieves who drill taps into state-owned pipelines thousands of times every year to steal gasoline and diesel... The Guanajuato state government said Monday it found a gravel truck in which a huge fuel tank had been welded into the bed, covered by a hatch and a layer of gravel to avoid detection... Guanajuato prosecutors said that on April 2 they found a 15-yard (meter) long tunnel built under fuel pipelines... The tunnel allowed thieves to drill taps undetected and transport fuel by hoses to a lot where trucks collected stolen fuel...
(Stock image via Pixabay: The tunnel, build to steal oil on camouflaged gravel truck) -- Mexico City, DF, MEX - The Associated Press/The Winnipeg F.P. (CAN) - 11 April 2016

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 5:36 AM  0 comments

Aug 21, 2009

Stolen diesel fuel * USA - How could they have known?

CONN,USA -Transport Topics, by Brian Straight -August 21, 2009: -- In a small town not far from where I live in Connecticut, three Brooklyn town highway employees have now been caught up in a stolen diesel fuel scam. The three employees, including the town’s highway department director, claim they didn’t know they were buying stolen fuel, according to the Norwich Bulletin... Police allege the three purchased the fuel for $2 a gallon for home use, about half of what it was selling for at the time, because they were told it was used fuel taken from tanks that were removed from the ground. Turns out the fuel had been stolen from a company in Thompson, CT. Three different men have been arrested and charged with that theft... The trio face up to five years in year in jail if convicted... Here’s a golden rule to follow: If a deal seems too good to be true, do your due diligence. Check it out. Chances are, it probably is too good to be true. And if a guy just shows up at your door and wants to sell you diesel fuel, just say no... (Photo: truck diesel fuel home heating oil)

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 7:14 PM  0 comments