Plausible to learn and start driving as a side gig?

For what it would cost for a new cdl holder, to buy a truck and operate it, you could pay cash for a new home. Required insurance is the killer. Check with www.OOIDA.com and you'll see what insurance will cost, if you can even find an insurance company that will insure you.
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Get your cdl, then work for a staffing agency that hires cdl drivers. This way you can work when you want to.

 

I'd say being an O/O is out. There's something like a 90% failure rate in the first year for O/O's, and that's for people working 70-80 hours a week. Part time just simply will not work.

You could work for a temp company maybe. Doing fill in work for other companies that need day help, that sort of thing.

Also, were you planning on working a 2nd job? If so, thanks to hours of service, you will find it hard to find a company that will allow it. It's possible, just the motor carriers tend to not want to deal with the hassle. This is definitely an industry you can't really 'dip a toe' in. You have to jump in all the way or stay out.

 

One of our dock workers a few years ago started training on his own time with shunt driver. He'd chauffeur the shunt driver around a few hours each night moving trailers around the city. Got his AZ followed by a line haul run with the company. Unfortunately the govt mandated trucking courses last year so this mode no longer possible.

 

Trillium CDL Staffing is a good one. Several drivers on this forum work for Trillium.
They're a nationwide agency.` There's probably a few other cdl staffing agencies in the Bay Area or that hire Bay Area drivers. Pro Drivers might be one.
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That guy looks a fresh as a daisy. Get both hands on the wheel son, this isn't a pu. Lol

 

Check your local schools.. they will train you for a class B with passenger endorsement and most are really used to part timers. it could be an option.

 

Correct me of I'm wrong but A) one of the jobs being a desk job makes no difference at all & B) even if one 'fudges' on reporting on duty time at another job and one gets into a chargeable accident and the attorneys for the prosecution find that out, prison time could be involved?

 

A: All compensated time must be logged on duty... and B: Yes, but "it will never happen to me.... Like it did those other drivers"