Well, sort of.
There is an old truckstop on the North end of town that closed down a few years ago. It's the place most of the truckers in town park their rigs when they are home, myself included. This morning I was there before the sun came up so I could get an early start on my trip. When I rolled into the lot and saw it was completely empty incluing the fact that my rig was not where I'd left it, I didn't need a slie rule to put 2 and 2 together.
I returned home and contacted the police to ask if trucks had been towed out of the old truckstop. Sure enough she confirmed they had and provided me with the name and number of the towing company. She also mentioned their office didn't open until 8:00am.
Promptly at 8:00 I called the towing company and confirmed that they had my rig and found out where it was located. I went there and $960 later I had my truck and trailer back. My brand new work gloves were missing though and of course they knew nothing about that. They told me that a new property management company had purchased the old truckstop and instead of being reasonable and posting signs informing us we would no longer be allowed to park there they had all our trucks and trailers towed off. 13 of us in all. Real nice folks.
I also noticed that the instrument panel wasn't working. No speedometer, no tachometer, no anything that keeps me informed as to the operating condition of the vehicle. There are 17 guages that provide me this information and not a single one was functioning. I also notice my cb radio was dead.
I troubleshooted the system and found a pair of blow fuses in the panel and traced the circuit to my cb. Hmmm, it's a very good Galaxy radio and not likely to just up short out on it's own. I pulled out the radio and quickly found the problem. Someone had tried to remove it (steal it) and only managed to pull the positive power lead loose, shorting it against the case thus blowing the fuses.
As I didn't have a pair of spare fuses of that rating, I repaired the radio leads and then moved a pair of fuses from a non-critical system to the instrument circuits. This got me down the road to a truckstop where I could purchase the new fuses. I then proceeded to run on up to Palatka to pick up this monster crane part several hours late and am heading for Green Bay.
I'm now sitting in Jackson, GA getting ready to get some sleep several hundred miles short of where I had planned to be stopping tonight. Maybe I should have just stayed in bed this morning. What a shitty day.