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Initech

(100,076 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:09 PM Sep 2014

Dumb Criminals: Truck Driver Accused Of Abandoning $80,000 Worth Of Chicken At Truck Stop

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in Idaho have arrested the driver thought to have abandoned a trailer containing 37,000 pounds of rotten chicken at a western Montana truck stop.

The Greater Idaho Fugitive Task Force in Meridian found Christopher Hall, 42, on Friday afternoon, Nampa police Lt. Eric Skoglund said.

Police say the trailer might have been sitting at the Flying J Truck Stop west of Missoula, Montana, for a month before it was discovered this week with rancid juices from the cargo dripping onto the pavement and attracting flies.

Hall abandoned the trailer after his employer, Dixie River Freight Inc., refused his demands for more money to deliver its then-frozen cargo to Kent, Washington, according to police.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/27/christopher-hall_n_5892672.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news


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Dumb Criminals: Truck Driver Accused Of Abandoning $80,000 Worth Of Chicken At Truck Stop (Original Post) Initech Sep 2014 OP
Non HuffPost link here: NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1
They will never be able to use that trailer for food again.. denbot Sep 2014 #2
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Non HuffPost link here:
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:20 PM
Sep 2014

..

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140928/NEWS13/140929505/-1/NEWS09

I feel for the driver but he did the wrong thing here.

Insurance covered the loss, but what a monumental waste of food.

No charges filed against the driver.

denbot

(9,899 posts)
2. They will never be able to use that trailer for food again..
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 04:51 PM
Sep 2014

Ugh, what a horrid mess. The company should have at least made sure the diver had enough fuel to make his drop, and the driver was at fault for just walking away without letting them know he could or would not complete his run.

I email the link to my boss, LoL.. I'm a trucker..

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