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Cheese bus heist in Manteca
3 restored VW buses promoting Tillamook Cheese stolen
Tillamooik VW Buses
The three stolen Tillamook Cheese Volkswagen buses. - photo by Photo Contributed
A Tillamook Cheese sales tour caravan was disrupted when five of its vehicles were stolen from a Manteca hotel parking places Saturday with two of them being torched a day later by thieves.The professionally restored Volkswagen buses are painted a bright orange and used for product advertising. They were part of a sales tour traveling from city to city. Tillamook Cheese has posted a $10,000 reward for the return of the three VW buses.The vehicles had been housed in a 40-foot-long cargo trailer parked at the Hampton Inn located at the Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley near the 120 Bypass and Union Road interchange where the sales crew was spending the night.
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