Rolando Denova Jr. took his 2017 Freightliner Cascadia in for maintenance in late 2021. He...
San Antonio truck driver Rolando Denova, Jr., 31, outside Doggett Freightliner South Texas in Converse. In November 2021, he alleges took his big rig into the dealership to be serviced and the truck subsequently disappeared.
Denova has filed a lawsuit seeking as much as $2 million over the loss of his truck, income and various possessions.Denova acquired his used Freightliner Cascadia in 2019 and drove to Kentucky to pick it up. He paid $31,000, financing $20,000 of the purchase price. He said he’s still paying on the note even though he no longer has the truck. Though Denova is an independent owner-operator, he said he was exclusively driving for freight and logistics company Forward Air until his truck disappeared. He had taken the semi into Doggett Freightliner’s Converse facility two days before Thanksgiving in 2021 for a transmission oil change and to have three fuel injector lines fixed. Doggett was spending time with his wife and daughter during the holiday, so it was an ideal time to have the vehicle serviced.About a week later, a Doggett Freightliner employee called Denova to ask if he had picked up his truck because “they could not find it,” his lawsuit alleges. He told them he had not retrieved the rig. Two days later, a Doggett Freightliner employee told him they had not located the truck. He asked that they check video from security cameras. The facility allegedly reviewed footage but didn’t see anything showing the vehicle had been removed. But recordings confirmed that the truck had been “safely pulled into the back their lot by their own agents” on Nov. 23, 2021, Denova’s suit says.“They didn’t even apologize. They just said, you better call the police,” said Rudolph Jass Jr., Denova’s San Antonio attorney. Denova reported his truck stolen to San Antonio police on Dec. 8, 2021. The FBI’s National Crime Information Center and the Texas Crime Information Center were notified, according to the police report. The SAPD spokesman said it had no information about any arrests made in connection with the theft. On Monday, he said he was checking with investigators on the status of the truck. Jass said he sent demand letters to “everyone I could find, including Leslie Doggett,” the parent company’s CEO, but didn’t receive any answer.Denova also lost about $17,000 worth of personal property he kept in his truck, including two Purple mattresses, a Qualcomm radio and a GPS system, which he suspects was disabled prior to the theft of the truck, he says in his suit. “The loss of the vehicle also meant the loss of his business insofar that he was a long-distance truck driver and, without a vehicle, he was unable to continue with his employment,” the lawsuit says. San Antonio truck driver Rolando Denova Jr. walks past the entrance to Doggett Freightliner South Texas in Converse.Denova has applied for jobs at various trucking companies but has so far not heard back, he said. The rise in truck prices during the pandemic has made it prohibitively expensive for Denova to buy another used rig, Jass said.Denova is supporting his family, which now includes another two daughters — 4 and 9 months, with savings and support from his family. In the complaint filed Jan. 5 in state District Court in San Antonio, Denova has sued for breach of contract, deceptive trade practices and negligence.pdanner@express-news.net
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