Faking an address to boost job prospects?

Well, if you do fake the address, get hired, then park the truck where you do actually live, something happens to the truck, they'll find out you lied, they will fire you, THEN you'll have to explain that trying to get the next job......

 

Good point.

Padding a job application/resume in the information age is difficult.

More than likely they'll do some level of background check that includes your address history. Sure - you can go with the "I just moved recently", but the folks that do the hiring have seen and heard most of it - if not all of it.

Stuff like this will eventually come back to haunt you.

 

This can be done by establishing residence somewhere more convenient, then getting a physical address through a mail forwarding service (NOT a PO Box). I know drivers who have a Nevada CDL and a physical address in Reno but live in Northern Cali, Mainly to avoid state income taxes.

 

I actually gave 1/2 a thought to doing this. I'm about 4 miles north of I69 in Michigan and several companies have I69 as their cut off. I figued if I used my sister's address (Same city, just south of 69) it would open up a bit more companies I could look at.

Problem with that though is there is a reasion they have hiring areas, and it's usally to do more with where their shipping lanes are, and knowing home time is next to impossible outside of the lanes. With that in mind I will not be trying to fudge my address. Heck, even ones that sat all of Flint is fine, but don't go further north I'm putting on a back burner.

-Steven

 

A whole lot of people fake being a Driver !!!!!!!!!!

What you want to do is Nothing !!

 

123456 is trying to tell you that faking your addy in your situation is really no big deal. Use a mail forwarding service or whatever else works to get the job, get rolling, get some cash in the bank, and relocate to wherever you want later on. There's nothing illegal about it if you're not trying to duck the IRS.

 

so, what would be legal?

I had one of those infamous aggressive recruiters / salesman in a truck stop drill me about coming up with an address in one of their hiring zones. I mentioned I do know someone and can possibly use it if I asked but pointed out it dishonest to me, it's not my residence. He told me it's not dishonest or illegal just so long as I park the rig in their terminal/yard then drive home on home time.. I turned him down. besides it would have been an 8 drive one way..

 

Dishonest, yes, illegal, not at all. In fact, if you read through the tax code, your place of residence is defined by where you may have lived in the past, whether you have family there or grew up there, and whether you intend to return there. I lived in NY for over a year but never had to change my state of residence only because I intended to return to that state eventually. There is no time limit on it.

Expanding on that, if you intend to live somewhere else and make that place a home, without intent to return, then legally you already live wherever you intend to go. Laws are fun.