What I want to know is how someone got away with 100 gallons. That's about 670 pounds worth of fuel.

If it was siphoned out it would take about 20 gas cans, and a whole lot of mouthwash to get the taste of ultra low sulfur out of your mouth. I doubt if that was how it happened. If it was transferred into a truck's tank via a pump it was clearly someone who makes a practice of stealing fuel. It seems to take forever to fill our buses, even with two side fill and big nozzles. How would someone have the balls to try to transfer 100 gallons without someone seeing it? This did not occur as quickly as a grab and run.

My guess is this was done by more than one person, and it is probable they had a truck, or a truck and trailer set up so that they would park along side the target vehicle, extend a hose that would unlikely be noticed by other truckers and just start pumping fuel out of the tank.

In Knoxville there has been an arrest in which a pickup with a gooseneck enclosed trailer parks over the gas station fuel tank caps. Through a hole in the floor they open the tank caps, drop in a hose, suck about 400 gallons or more into a tank in the trailer, close the tank caps and drive away. What got them caught was when the gas station noticed the shortage they reviewed all the security tapes and eventually figured out that it was done by the truck with the gooseneck trailer. The bad guys should have covered their license plates. The tape was shown on TV and you could make out something going on beneath the trailer.

My guess is a similar rig is used to steal fuel directly from the trucks parked at a Flying J. All they need is an empty space next to the victim, and they need to see the driver walk away from the rig so they know they have a little time to do their dirty deed.

This wasn't the work of someone that took advantage of an opportunity. This was the work of someone all set up specifically to steal fuel and they created their own opportunities by watching the parking lot for victims. My guess is if the Flying J has video security and it showed the coaches, it will also show who did it.