MONTREAL, July 29 (UPI) -- Thieves in Montreal stole a pickup truck and went to the owner's hotel parking lot to steal pothole-filling equipment, the owner said.

The Montreal Gazette reported an apparently well-organized group of thieves Saturday stalked Matt Kieswetter of Head Design Equipment, Inc. in Kitchener, Ontario, who was traveling through Montreal to deliver a $55,000 piece of pothole-filling machinery to Quebec City's public works department.

The brand-new equipment is called a "hotbox," keeps asphalt warm and pours it into potholes, the Gazette reported.

The hotbox was hitched behind the pickup truck, but Kieswetter unhitched it and left it in his hotel parking lot in St. Laurent to drive his truck to Old Montreal for dinner, the Gazette said.

Kieswetter said when he left the restaurant two hours later the truck had been stolen, and when he called police and took a taxi back to the hotel, the hotbox was gone.

The hotel parking attendant told him two men came and drove it off 15 minutes after the truck was parked.

Kieswetter said he was furious the attendant didn't call authorities and said an alarm had been set on the truck.

Hotel video surveillance footage allegedly confirming the incident will be given to police, the Gazette reported.

"(The hotbox) is not very valuable as a stolen piece of equipment," Kieswetter said, adding he thinks the thieves wanted its engine and hydraulic components.