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<blockquote data-quote="Fyrtwuck" data-source="post: 3487672" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>You just reminded me of a case I was involved in back in the early nineties. The owner of a tractor trailer hired a driver to haul loads across the country. It was his only truck and he was trying to start a trucking company. The driver was long overdue and the owner had tried multiple times to contact his driver with no response. I took the report and we treated it as a stolen vehicle report. </p><p></p><p>About three months later I got a call from a Florida Sheriffs Deputy who said that they had recovered the truck. As it happened the truck was found at a wrecker impound yard during an inspection where several other vehicles that had been reported stolen but not reported as recovered had been found. </p><p></p><p>It seems that the owner of the wrecker company was sending his drivers to “patrol” the interstate for cars that were broken down or appeared abandoned and unattended. They’d tow them back to the yard and IF the owners came after their vehicles they’d charge impound, mileage and storage fees before they got their cars back. </p><p></p><p>I don’t know how they were supposed to know where their cars were, but that’s what the deputy told me. The driver of the truck in my case supposedly had a dispute with the owner of the truck, parked it and went to another company who was hiring in Florida. The OK County ADA told me to file charges for embezzlement by Bailee and issued a warrant for his arrest. A local driver was contracted and flown to Florida to pick up and return the truck. I never heard anything further in the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fyrtwuck, post: 3487672, member: 23"] You just reminded me of a case I was involved in back in the early nineties. The owner of a tractor trailer hired a driver to haul loads across the country. It was his only truck and he was trying to start a trucking company. The driver was long overdue and the owner had tried multiple times to contact his driver with no response. I took the report and we treated it as a stolen vehicle report. About three months later I got a call from a Florida Sheriffs Deputy who said that they had recovered the truck. As it happened the truck was found at a wrecker impound yard during an inspection where several other vehicles that had been reported stolen but not reported as recovered had been found. It seems that the owner of the wrecker company was sending his drivers to “patrol” the interstate for cars that were broken down or appeared abandoned and unattended. They’d tow them back to the yard and IF the owners came after their vehicles they’d charge impound, mileage and storage fees before they got their cars back. I don’t know how they were supposed to know where their cars were, but that’s what the deputy told me. The driver of the truck in my case supposedly had a dispute with the owner of the truck, parked it and went to another company who was hiring in Florida. The OK County ADA told me to file charges for embezzlement by Bailee and issued a warrant for his arrest. A local driver was contracted and flown to Florida to pick up and return the truck. I never heard anything further in the case. [/QUOTE]
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