When your IFTA audit notification arrives, what do you do when you discover there are missing IFTA records and data? Could the fines and penalties bankrupt your small trucking business? Can you survive the auditor’s call?
You check your dark and cobwebbed storage room with a single flickering light bulb. Boxes that haven’t seen daylight for years are brought out like caskets from a crypt. Dust fills the air as lids are opened. Spiders scurry across the desk as each file is opened, searching for the missing IFTA records. Will you lose your job if these receipts and log books aren’t found? Your trucking business could fail.
Your very livelihood depends on finding those records.
At the same time, invoices have to be sent. Loads are picked up and delivered. Your truck breaks down on the road in the middle of a thunderstorm when tornado warnings have already been issued. You can’t waste time getting back on the road, but you can’t ignore the upcoming IFTA audit, either.
How do you choose?
Time is running out.
You must find these missing IFTA records.
Your trucking business has to keep running. If you don’t get more loads, how will you pay your bills? Put fuel in your truck? Feed your family?
You can’t reschedule the IFTA audit. But you can’t abandon your business.
In the middle of the night, you try to remember where you might have put the missing IFTA records. Maybe they are in that filing cabinet hidden under a pile of old atlases and maps that were thrown up there years ago. Or maybe shoved into a corner of the attic crawlspace, where you’ve seen the bats hang from the rafters? Were they stuffed into one of the plastic tubs in the garage under a workbench, where oil and brake fluids have dripped on top of them?
All you know is you have to find those missing IFTA records. You have to document your miles per state and fuel purchases. Everything depends on you having what the auditor needs to see.
Where could you have lost them?
In your desperation, you have nightmares where you call in a medium to help you, but she’s more concerned about your dead grandmother. Or a ghost hunter comes to find out if an evil spirit has hidden them in a secret space under the floor. The anxiety is ripping through your mind. Your acid reflux is in overdrive. There’s no rest, no relief. Just fear.
What will the IFTA auditor do if you can’t find them?
You aren’t surprised when the power goes out. It’s just one more thing that could go wrong.
In the flashes of lightning, you spot the one thing that can help you.
A TruckingOffice mug gleams in the burst of light.
With your smartphone, you open the TruckingOffice website.
Your data is there. All of it. You can see all the miles per state and where your fuel purchases were made. The missing IFTA records are found.
The IFTA auditor won’t find your records incomplete. You’ve got it all in the palm of your hand. It’s been there all along.
It was a dark and stormy night. But your power comes back on. The game’s on in 10 minutes. You throw those boxes back in the closet and order a pizza. You deserve it.
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