Part time job?

I am a retired Firefighter and I hauled containers on my days off (24/72), so yes it can be done. You just have to make the right connections and determine if the risk vs. reward is worth it.

 

I leased on with a company, they were very flexible.

 

Be careful about your hours of service. You have to log On Duty for any other non-driving job. If you work 24 hours on your other job, you need to log 10 hours off duty before starting your driving shift. It may mean on a 24/48 hour work/off duty schedule you might not be able to legally drive if you chewed through your 70 hour clock.

It could all look pretty on paper, but if you get hit by a careless civilian and they lawyer up, you could be in for bad times if they find out you have two jobs.

 

"The risk"

 

If by your quotation marks you mean to minimize the risk...

...don't

I have a perfect driving record. However, I did have an incident last October when a civilian ran into me in a construction zone. I had dash cam footage. I had clean logs. The LEO cited the civilian. The civilian lawyered up, but after a quick check of my logs they quickly went away. If you aren't supposed to be there, then that is automatically on you. Not even sure if your insurance would go to bat for you in a lawsuit.

Working a CDL as a part time job? Then you had better be clean on your logs.

 

You could hire onto a in city courier company. Flats get better pay than cars, vans, or box trucks. You call in the morning, tell em you active, and wait for work. Kinda like uber for freight..