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Rising gas prices fueling drive-offs

AUBURN - Some customers at the Hess Express on North Street are puzzling over a lone figure practically planted near the gas pumps.

The young man tries in earnest to look discreet while clenching a walkie talkie, pad and pen, but still, he looks out of place.

His name is David Reynolds and he is the service station's answer to stemming drive-offs fueled by rising gas prices. Hess Express placed Reynolds outside last week to take down the makes, colors and license plates of cars whose drivers who do not choose to prepay.

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