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Hi all, I have a seemingly complicated situation and questions and I apologize if it has been asked before, but I searched and did not find a proper response.

My husband is an O/O, but it's a hotshot truck. He works as a contract employee (gets a 1099) and his loads are dependent on what the Company grants us. Here's the problem: we live in the Houston area, and plenty of times he gets a load to Oklahoma or Kansas, or even Minnesota and on every load, he's coming back empty. These guys in the Company dispatch office make absolutely ZERO effort to get a backhaul coming home, which is incredibly irritating to both of us.

Hubby was asking what if I (the wife) were to get on a job board and bid some jobs in the area, just to cover the fuel costs back to Houston? I am wary of doing this because I'm not sure about the legality of a driver making a move for one company, and driving back for another company.

So then, my questions are these: 1. Is this legal? He would drive up from Houston to Kansas sporting magnets for Company A, but if he should get a backhaul, he would change out the magnets for Company B and come home driving under Company B. 2. Where can I find the laws that govern this type of information? 3. Can he switch electronic logs (as Company A has their own GeoTab provided, but Company B would be something different)?

I appreciate everyone's time in reading this in advance!