Friend of mine owns a trucking company that hauls booze. That is a pretty expensive truck. When a truck goes missing the seach the airport parking lots along they way. Most truckers would call home, find a problem, pull into the local airport and fly home.
Now days they have GPS and they track them and generally find them at airports.
They didn’t actually steal the trucks - just the loads. A driver pulls up to the terminal with a truck and trailer and says he is supposed to pick up a load for XYZ... brokers - the dock guys load the trailer and away you go. It happens quite frequently actually - I see it at least twice a year at one of my terminals (never successful on me). Losing a truck and trailer would be in the ballpark of a quarter mil - I run a fleet of 43 trucks for my business; you never just misplace a tractor trailer!