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This would work.
But where's the cash?
Would the owner leave a cash payment for the delivery?

Its been a while since I've been in the gasoline business - about 20+ years. Cash used to be common, but you're probably right in that it isn't used much any more.

Cash comes from sales in the desert to independent operators by the tanker operator. Just don't deliver, get a signature, and you're home free. Might look at nearby AZ state scales to see if the last truck had a weighin before and after the last set of deliveries.

Of course, the gas station probably had 10,000-100,000 gal storage tanks and the error might not have happened immediately if they hadn't been reliably logged or measured.

A fella just got out of prison in the high desrt last year who had hot tapped a liquid petroleum pipeline. Was known by locals to drive his 2-1/2ton truck out to different remote customers delivering diesel at a very competitive price,.....at least until the pipeline tracked down which segment of their pipeline always seemed to come up short.