Gasoline theft
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Gasoline theft can be applied to cases when fuel is stolen from a station without payment or when a vehicle driver takes it from a company's vehicle to use the gasoline personally.
Vehicle tracking system
s are used by some companies to monitor cases of fuel theft and raise effectiveness of fleet usage.
from a station without payment. The thief will usually use some form of decoy to prevent nearby witnesses from noticing the lack of payment until they have left the station. Common decoys include pretending to press the wrong buttons after swiping the credit card
, or having multiple people get gas at the same time with one paying for another person and the other running off with both cars.
With typical gas thefts costing station owners in the range of $50 per incident, many stores have fought back by installing better video equipment and requiring pre-payment.
Since the oil price increases after 2004, the surge in fuel theft has gone up, which has included license plate thefts (when gasoline is stolen in the case that the vehicle has the original tags, the vehicle tags will ID the registered owner).
Theft from tank
The rate of fuel theft is accelerating as fuel prices climb, tempting more employees to steal fuel. Employees can either siphon fuel from fuel tanks or use special devices making it hard to detect that fuel would gradually be leaving the fuel tank. This employee-related crime is now costing the United States trucking industry $2.1 billion a year.Vehicle tracking system
Vehicle tracking system
A vehicle tracking system combines the installation of an electronic device in a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles, with purpose-designed computer software at least at one operational base to enable the owner or a third party to track the vehicle's location, collecting data in the process from the...
s are used by some companies to monitor cases of fuel theft and raise effectiveness of fleet usage.
Theft from station
Gasoline theft (sometimes known colloquially as fill and fly, gas and dash and drive-off) is the removal of gasolineGasoline
Gasoline , or petrol , is a toxic, translucent, petroleum-derived liquid that is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhanced with a variety of additives. Some gasolines also contain...
from a station without payment. The thief will usually use some form of decoy to prevent nearby witnesses from noticing the lack of payment until they have left the station. Common decoys include pretending to press the wrong buttons after swiping the credit card
Credit card
A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services...
, or having multiple people get gas at the same time with one paying for another person and the other running off with both cars.
With typical gas thefts costing station owners in the range of $50 per incident, many stores have fought back by installing better video equipment and requiring pre-payment.
Since the oil price increases after 2004, the surge in fuel theft has gone up, which has included license plate thefts (when gasoline is stolen in the case that the vehicle has the original tags, the vehicle tags will ID the registered owner).
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