Something smells foul with this story, but I can't figure it out.
Driver accused of abandoning chicken truck found
Driver accused of abandoning chicken truck found
Driver accused of abandoing truck
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Something definitely stinks about the whole story.
He picket the load up on the 20th of August in Arkansas and the company wanted it delivered the next day in Washington? That is 1800+ miles away.
Were they trying to make him drive illegally and he asked for more money to do it? And why did they wait until the 27th of August to report this trailer missing?
He picket the load up on the 20th of August in Arkansas and the company wanted it delivered the next day in Washington? That is 1800+ miles away.
Were they trying to make him drive illegally and he asked for more money to do it? And why did they wait until the 27th of August to report this trailer missing?
Because the reporter clearly got that fact wrong. Even Arkansas to Missoula takes longer than next day.
But that is what is being reported.
Yeah, I know, but that doesn't mean it's being correctly reported. For one, he picked up the trailer in Springdale on August 20th and the carrier didn't report it missing until August 27th. If it was supposed to be there the next day, they wouldn't have waited another 6 days to report it. Secondly, it's 2575 miles from Springdale to the destination in Kent, WA. Even the most incompetent dispatcher wouldn't expect a frozen shipment of 2575 miles to get there the next day unless it went by air. People ignorant of how things move, like reporters and police, who think next day delivery is both magic and expensive, might expect it to go from Arkansas to Washington in one day, though.
Many reports quote the same AP story verbatim, while others written for local news outlets have it worded a little differently. A reporter for the Missoulian in an update regarding the landfill sources the Nampa, ID Police for the pickup and delivery dates. That may be where the AP got the information. So either the AP got it wrong, or the police got it wrong. In any case, every single news outlet that has parroted it did so without thinking, without asking the most basic of news reporting questions.
More likely, the police officer said something like, "It was picked up on August 20th and was scheduled to be delivered the next Monday," and the AP reporter didn't hear the "mon" part.