Final 12 months, the Valley noticed a whole lot of {dollars} in fuel drive off

FARGO, N.D. (Valley Information Reside) – Even earlier than fuel costs began to rise, many drivers within the Fargo space had been set on not paying the value for his or her fuel.

“It has been like ongoing, we now have sheets and sheets of simply license plates and automobile sorts and the whole lot so it’s been taking place however then it simply began getting increasingly,” mentioned normal retailer supervisor at Don’s Automotive Washes Amanda Franks.

Franks says when Don’s Automotive Washes punched their numbers final 12 months, their fuel costs weren’t matching up with their fuel gross sales.

“Folks I assume would use their card after which it wouldn’t learn the cardboard so we’re inside and we’d hit authorize as a result of they might push the grade after which we’d authorize it and clearly we thought their card and it wouldn’t so it’s sort of a mix of,” she trailed.

She says as soon as they realized the fuel station had an issue, there have been 55 drivers that crammed their fuel tank and took off with out paying a dime simply within the month of November.

“Shedding a ton of cash, a ton of fuel, particularly since we’re largely a fuel station,” she mentioned.

The stolen fuel was reported to the police however there actually isn’t a lot that may be accomplished about it.

“Like 50 folks, what are they going to do, simply go monitor all of those folks down, they’ve obtained loads of different stuff happening,” Franks mentioned.

So the fuel station took its personal proactive motion, switching to pre-pay fuel pumps in December.

“It’s been actually good, we’re getting again, again on monitor,” she mentioned.

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