How to legally moonlight?
Posted by Top10Waver@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 7 comments
Doing ready mix (good hourly) but some weeks are slower. I wanted to do light duty towing on the weekends to build experience and eventually go fr heavy duty towing. Tow companies won’t work with me and my company has a moonlighting policy. Are there any jobs that don’t violate that?
I’m 25 and just want to work
Mindes13@reddit
Legally, no.
What's to say you don't work a gig job like Uber, Lyft, or DoorDash?
jmzstl@reddit
There's no way to do it legally without your current employer finding out, because you'd have to edit your logs to include all working hours at your other job.
Even if the other job doesn't require following HOS, you would still record it as on-duty not driving, and you would need to make sure you have the required 10 or 34 hours off before driving on Monday.
Top10Waver@reddit (OP)
Even if the company still runs paper logs?
jmzstl@reddit
I didn't even know companies were still allowed to run paper logs to be honest.
You'll have to double check me on this, but I think you're still required to turn those in to your company. Which means you would need to turn in the ones that show you working on your days off...again, that's if you want to do everything legally.
Frogspoison@reddit
You dont more or less, or you find a shady company that doesn't care.
CannibalAnus@reddit
Any work you do, has to be reported as ‘on duty’ afaik. So you’re not going to escape FMCSA if the DOT audit your logs.
Top10Waver@reddit (OP)
Damn bro I didn’t know this 😐