I don’t think its economical to make deliveries via trucks.
I could see this happening in that they sold tanker loads or less to the field gathering locations where it is gathered from various well heads to then be put into pipelines. At $100 bbl or so both the gang and the oil field operator could make a few bucks.
Agree next story will be about mules used to smiggle oil to evil oil companies.
The trucks are limited to 7500gal loads, 15,000 for a tandem trailer load.
It isn’t economical to transport the fuel by truck, when you are the producer seeking to sell greater volumes by orders of magnitude more, but for the thief who has little to no capital investment, his profit is simply obtained by the truckload.
There are probably isolated wells which slowly produce, but aren’t economically viable to maintain a liquid petroleum pipeline to transport their product. So a market exists for independent petroleum trucking.