Brink’s heist mystery: Questions arise about a timeline that ‘doesn’t make any sense.’ It either doesn’t make sense or they have the world’s fastest semi.
Brink’s said in a lawsuit that its two drivers made the roughly 298-mile, late-night trek from San Mateo to the Flying J Travel Center in Lebec in about 2 hours, 4 minutes, even fitting in a stop along Interstate 5. To traverse that distance so quickly, the vehicle would have had to drive at speeds upward of 140 mph.
Brink’s has said that the vehicle stopped at the Buttonwillow rest area about 1:49 a.m. so one of the drivers could use the bathroom, and then continued on to the Flying J, reaching it about 16 minutes later. The Buttonwillow rest stop is about 55 miles from the Flying J. Covering that distance in a little more than a quarter of an hour would require driving at speeds upward of 200 mph.
For example, the report does not mention an alarm on the door of the Brink’s trailer or cameras anywhere on the vehicle.
Arnold Duke, president of the International Gem and Jewelry Show, said he “always thought there was” an alarm on the door, “but certainly never checked it.”
“I was under the impression that everything had satellite tracking, cameras, alarms,” he said.
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Seems like it would be easy to find eyewitnesses if an orange Brinks truck was traveling down the interstate at 200 mph...
I've got a heavy foot and tend to arrive at my destinations sooner than projected. However, having a tractor trailer cover almost 300 miles in under 2 hours and 15 minutes is a HAULING ass and impossible to do. Was Huff having an art show close by? That might explain the timeline
I made it from LA to the Bay Area in 5 hours one time. I left LA at 4 AM to avoid traffic, I had a pickup with a large tank, so I didn't have to stop for gas.