Employees Using Company Vehicles to Moonlight as Uber Drivers (and More)

摘要

Personal use of company-provided vehicles is a long-accepted practice at most companies. But, lately, a growing number of employees have been caught using their company vehicles as a tool to generate supplemental personal income for themselves. This is not a new phenomenon, but, anecdotally, there appears to be a recent uptick in this activity. I am increasingly hearing from fleet managers about employees who are using company vehicles to moonlight for a second job. The fastest-growing trend in unauthorized usage of company vehicles is working as an Uber or Lyft driver. But using company vehicles to moonlight goes far beyond Uber and Lyft. Other moonlighting activities involving unauthorized use of a company vehicle include those employed in part-time direct sales, such as Avon, or for pizza delivery by children of employees, who, as a family member, are authorized to drive a company vehicle.