LadyTrucker
03-15-2009, 07:52 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah-based trucking executive says he got taken for a ride hauling new cars from a western Nebraska that turned out to be stolen.
The cashier's checks that Robert Rausch says he demanded for moving the Toyota vehicles turned out to be counterfeit.
Rausch says he owes money for drivers' wages and fuel and has nothing to show for it.
Rausch says he was supposed to make $28,000 shipping 80 vehicles. He brokered some of the work to other trucking firms. The vehicles were shipped to dealerships in Tooele, Utah, and Las Vegas, and auction houses.
Three executives of Legacy Auto Sales in Scottsbluff, Neb., have been arrested on suspicion of theft for arranging to sell the vehicles and keep the proceeds without paying Toyota for them.
LINK TO ARTICLE...... (http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10006659&nav=menu554_2_3)
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The cashier's checks that Robert Rausch says he demanded for moving the Toyota vehicles turned out to be counterfeit.
Rausch says he owes money for drivers' wages and fuel and has nothing to show for it.
Rausch says he was supposed to make $28,000 shipping 80 vehicles. He brokered some of the work to other trucking firms. The vehicles were shipped to dealerships in Tooele, Utah, and Las Vegas, and auction houses.
Three executives of Legacy Auto Sales in Scottsbluff, Neb., have been arrested on suspicion of theft for arranging to sell the vehicles and keep the proceeds without paying Toyota for them.
LINK TO ARTICLE...... (http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10006659&nav=menu554_2_3)
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