Just like interstate truckers used to do. One log that you showed the cops if they pulled you over, and then the REAL one.
Hell, there was an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard that had this! Boss Hogg kept two different ledgers for something or other. The REAL ledger had a Confederate flag sticker on it. Then the sticker came off and Roscoe couldn't figure out which was legit and which was the fraudulent one. Of course he went for the real one to show and the Dukes spotted Hogg's playing tricks with the accounting.
**Just like interstate truckers used to do.**
Oh they still do it if their truck is old enough to not require electronic logs.
**One log that you showed the cops if they pulled you over, and then the REAL one.**
The one shown to the bears could be quite a work of fiction. Some years back at a wedding the wife and I were invited to, a fellow asked me about my occupation. I told him that I was a novelist, and was working on my third novel. He was impressed, but I quickly explained that I was working for a third trucking company in my “storied” career, and the logs were the pages of the “novel”.
I hated altering the facts, but traffic backups, weather delays, etc. can really challenge on time pickup and deliveries.
A lot of shrimpers on the Gulf Coast will sell a lot of their catch off the books at roadside stands and not report the income. The problem arises when a hurricane or oil spill cuts them off and they have to file their claims based on what they can show on the books.