In re H.E.W., Inc.

HABHAB, Judge.

H.E.W., Inc., appeals from an order vesting title of a tractor and semitrailer in the State of Iowa in a forfeiture proceeding. We reverse.

H.E.W., an asbestos disposal business, sent an employee, Michael Goodman, to pick up a trailer it was renting from U.S. Abatement, a competitor in Omaha. Goodman arrived in Omaha between 11 p.m. and midnight on Friday, August 7, 1992. Goodman used a 1981 GMC tractor to haul a 1974 Fruehauf semitrailer back to Iowa. The trailer was padlocked when Goodman picked it up. Goodman reached the H.E.W. site on Saturday, August 8, 1992, and left the…