I agree completely.  The bus was stolen in the morning, and the owner got a call from the dispatcher in the evening asking if he had leased his bus...  did he not file a report immediately when he discovered it stolen?  Isn't running a license plate the first thing cops do when they pull somebody over?  If there's no record of it being stolen, then basically the dispatcher is relying on the word of somebody on the phone vs. the word of the person driving the bus.