We hear a lot about late pay invoices from truckers. Why is it taking so long to get paid? When we ask, many of them say that they don’t send their invoices until the end of the month. No wonder they have late payments when they’re sending out late invoices!
Losing Weight and Late Invoices
Stick with me here. The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to track your calories. Not that you want to hear that, because it’s boring. We often want the fastest, easiest, and least disruptive way to lose weight.
It’s the same with getting your billing out. The best way to get your trucking invoices paid quickly is to get them out quickly. That means tracking expenses, delivery dates, and BOL signatures quickly and being able to put those together on an invoice.
A lot of truckers tell us their method – the historical envelope method of collecting all the invoices from the fuel pumps to the toll booths (and everything in between). When they get home, or the end of the month, they sit down with the receipts and create an owner operator trucking invoice on a word processor like Google Docs – which doesn’t even add up the numbers for you!
What if you lose a receipt? It’s easy to say it’s not gonna happen, you’ve got your VISA statement. But do you? Or do you have to go look it up?
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The Habits of Smart Truckers
There’s a better way.
If you’re a solo owner operator, then TruckingOffice PRO is your best friend. Simply upload your expenses as you pay for them into TruckingOffice PRO trucking software. No more going to the VISA statement, no more shuffling through envelopes, and especially no more wondering what happened to that signed BOL. As you enter all these things into TruckingOffice PRO, they are added to that dispatch, so when it’s time to create the invoice – it’s all there, including your miles for the trip and date of the delivery with the signed BOL image ready to send from the cab of your rig.
From your truck cab? Seriously?
Yes.
Imagine all the time you’ll save by getting that invoice out while the shipping crew unloads the freight. No more late invoices when you get into the habit of entering all of your expenses as you pay them. You can send your invoice immediately and look for your payments days earlier than you ever have before.
Have you depended on factoring to have enough cash flow to keep yourself on the road? You won’t need to do that when your invoices go out fast and complete. Late invoices won’t mess up your trucking business – they’ll make it better.
TruckingOffice PRO
Using a single trucking management software package gives the independent owner operator the same benefits that big trucking companies have in expensive software solutions. TruckingOffice offers the best options for the solo trucker. We’ve got affordable trucking management software that handles everything. TruckingOffice PRO makes your life easier and managing your business smoother by helping you handle your tasks better and faster:
- Trucker Stats™– reports to show the state of your trucking business.
Combined with the TruckingOffice ELD, you’ve got everything you need to build a successful trucking business – even from the cab of your truck.
Contact us today to learn how TruckingOffice PRO can help you avoid late invoices, late payments, and paying a factoring company instead of yourself.
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