D&D Lawn Care got hit with a double whammy February 11 when one of its trucks caught fire and a snowplow attached to the truck was stolen.
The truck was traveling on U.S. 29 southbound near Fabrics Unlimited when it burst into flame Thursday morning. Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department was there within three minutes and extinguished the fire, says Jessica Dudley, office manager at D&D. A snowplow attached to the front of the truck had to be removed for towing, and before D&D could retrieve the $9,000 blade, it was swiped off the side of the road, she says.
At around 11:50am, a D&D supervisor saw an older white man with a gray beard removing the plow using a white utility truck with a boom and thought the man was someone sent by the company to retrieve the nine-foot Meyer blade, says Dudley.
“We lost an entire truck and the plow was stolen,” says Dudley. That means the Ruckersville-based business won’t be able to run a snowplow crew if it snows this weekend, she says. The company is offering a reward for information leading to the return of its plow, she says. Anyone with information about the purloined plow should call Albemarle police at 296-5807.
Updated 1:32pm with Albemarle police phone number.