IFTA Preparation: QuickBooks or TruckingOffice?
IFTA is due at the end of this month. How are you managing your IFTA preparation? IFTA Preparation Options As we see it, there are several options to complete your IFTA preparation. You can do it by hand. We truly hope you are not doing this. The chances of...
Overworked? Here’s How Our Trucking Management Software Can Cut Your Workload in Half
Do you have a reliable trucking management software? One may think that there isn’t too much that goes into running a trucking company. To someone on the outside looking in, you are simply transporting goods from one place to another. However, it can be...Easiest IFTA Ever?
Are you looking at Q2 of this year and thinking, “This will be my easiest IFTA ever?” because you didn’t haul any freight? (Remember, you still have to file your IFTA even if you didn’t drive.) We’re hoping next quarter will be better and...
Understanding the IFTA Reporting System
The IFTA reporting system has helped to simplify matters for trucking companies by minimizing the compliance requirements and reducing paperwork. If you have questions about the reporting system, or if you are new to the trucking business, here are some important...
TruckingOffice Integrates TMS and ELD With a New Revolutionary Software
Trucking companies rely on today’s technology to carry out basic everyday tasks. Trucking management software offered from TruckingOffice has helped to improve dispatching and time logging efforts. This helps make these companies run smoothly. Two things that are key...
Revolutionize Your Entire Trucking Operation With Our Trucking Management Software
Many responsibilities come with operating a trucking company. A solid trucking management software is a real asset to your company. You need to correctly plan out your dispatching and operations processes. Also, you must oversee cash flow by accurately eliminating...
How to Get The Most Out of Your Trucking Management Software
Trucking management software is designed to make life much easier for those who work in the trucking industry. And thanks to many modern advancements, these programs have been successful with doing just that. Having the right system in place to help you manage all the...
Trucking Management Software: One-Stop Shop for ELD, IFTA and Payroll
Are you using a reliable trucking management software? There is a lot more that goes into running a trucking company than simply taking orders from clients and ensuring deliveries arrive on time. You need to make sure your drivers are keeping track of their time on...
Trouble Tracking Your HOS? How Our ELD Makes It Easy
Keeping track of your hours of service while on the road is an essential part of being a truck driver. It’s imperative that all drivers log their HOS efficiently so that the trucking company has all this information on record. These details may be needed in the future...
3 Ways Trucking Software Will Improve Your Cash Flow
The trucking business is an important part of our country’s economy. There are thousands of businesses out there depending on trucking companies to help them meet their demands and stay afloat. Your trucking business may be the key to helping other businesses make a...
Trucking Software: Accounting Made Easy
Handling the accounting within any business is often a long and arduous task, and this can be especially true in trucking. There are multiple factors to consider in trucking accounting, including IFTA fees, mileage, fuel, and much more. With so many factors to juggle,...
16-Hour Short-Haul Exemption
For certain truckers, there is a 16-hour short-haul exemption that is available under certain circumstances. Short Haul A short-haul is a trucker who hauls a load and returns home the same day. These truckers may cross state lines, but they consistently return home...
Trucking Management Software: Save Time and Increase Cash Flow
Disorganization can be a terrible enemy when it comes to running a trucking business. It leads to constant wasted time and money in every area of the business. Whether it be more time spent compiling reports or having to manually record fuel or maintenance costs, this...
Easy ELD Compliance: How to Get Started
The trucking industry has changed immensely over the years. It will likely continue to do so as technology advances. Years ago, everything was done manually from logging man-hours to tracking expenses. Fortunately, technology has made much of this easier to track and...
IFTA Extensions: Should you take it?
Are you eligible for IFTA extensions? What about your IRP? Some jurisdictions are giving them to truckers who have hauled medical or other essential materials during this crisis. What do you plan to do? IFTA Extensions Owner-operators, trucking companies, brokers...
3 Tips for Streamlining Your Quarterly IFTA Reporting
There are numerous administrative duties to take care of when running a trucking operation. One of the most important of these is recording and tracking the proper information for quarterly IFTA reporting. It will never be exactly easy or fun to do IFTA reporting, but...
IFTA Changes – Are You Keeping Up?
Are you keeping up with the IFTA changes right now? IFTA Changes – Fuel Tax Rates It’s that time of year again when you’re doing your IFTA filing and you need to be confident that you’re paying the right amount. Not too much, not too little....
Know Your Numbers: How to Run Your Trucking Business More Efficiently
The trucking industry keeps the United States’ economy flowing. Without truck-drivers hauling resources on the road, a great number of industries would come to a stand-still. Around 71% of the United State’s freight is moved by trucks. This equates to nearly 11...
Fastest IRP & IFTA Calculator On the Road
What’s the fastest IFTA calculator available? Everybody wants to know that right about now. Get this stupid task done and get back on the road, right? We’ve got better things to do. Breaking down the IFTA Calculations First, you have to track all of your...
Simple IFTA for Owner Operators
I was reading about strategies to reduce your IFTA taxes and someone suggested that you buy fuel in every state – and only enough for that state. I think that finding a simple IFTA for owner-operators would be a lot easier. Likewise, it will make it less likely...
Accurate IFTA for Long Distance Truckers
Do you worry about having an accurate IFTA tax filing? Maybe you know what could happen if you don’t file it correctly, and that bothers you? It should. The consequences to doing it wrong are almost as bad as failing to do it all. What is the IFTA Reporting...
New IFTA Calculator for Your New Trucking Business
Just getting started in your new owner-operator trucking business? Welcome to the world of logistics and transportation! There’s a lot to learn when you own your own business and one of the first lessons is taxes. IFTA taxes. IRP taxes. That’s why...DOT Inspections: The 8 Levels and What to Expect with Each
If you have (or are beginning to have) interest in the trucking business, you probably know about the annual DOT inspection. The Department of Transportation does this inspection. It’s typically done on all commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) weighing 10,001 pounds, and...
5 Ways Trucking Company Software Can Save You Money & Time
Running a successful trucking company is no easy task. Recordkeeping, tracking expenses and making payments requires a lot of organization. Delivering invoices, compiling reports and maintaining trucks requires a lot of hands-on hours. The tedious administrative tasks...
Your Trucking Business in Your Cab
In order to know how your trucking business is doing, you need to be clear with a few numbers. It’s not taxes like IFTA or IRP. It’s not miles per state or even miles per trip. The key number for your trucking business in your cab is your expenses per...
Plans, Goals, and TruckingOffice
A lot of people don’t like setting goals. It’s frustrating when they don’t achieve the goal. Goals lead them to blame themselves, to make excuses, and makes a person feel bad instead of helping people complete a task. So is goal setting a bad thing?...
Trucking IFTA FAQs
TruckingOffice trucking management software was built for a trucking office. Our owner, Allen Campbell, has had years on the road, owns his own authority, and had a fleet of 6 trucks. When working with the developers to create TruckingOffice, IFTA was on his mind....
IFTA Filing in Your TruckingOffice
Ten days from now, IFTA is due for 3Q. How’s your trucking company handling it? Is the IFTA filing in your trucking office a major headache – or just another task that takes a few minutes per truck? Trucking Office Tasks Tracking a load from first to last...
Figure Your Time in Your IFTA Calculations
Do you figure your time into your IFTA calculations? If your IFTA filing takes you off the road, you’re losing time. That means you’re losing income. It’s not like when we get paid a detention fee when we’re stuck in the shipping yard....
Owner-Operator IFTA Goal
It’s time to file IFTA. You don’t normally think of it as a goal, do you? But an IFTA goal is a smart idea for your trucking business, especially an owner-operator: IFTA goals can change your business. What’s an IFTA goal? Pretty simple, really. An...
Understanding the ELD Mandate
The switch from paperwork to computer work can sometimes prove to be confusing or frustrating. Some people find that paperwork is easier and more reliable. They may think that there is no reason for a switch. However, when it comes to truck driving, the switch from...
Truck Tracking Software Helps Your Trucking Business
When you order from Amazon, you now get more details about where your package is – even a picture of when and where it was delivered. It’s almost expected now in the online retail industry – even the Post Office offers it. In order to do this, they...
The Right Trucking Accounting Software for You
What software do you trust to run your trucking business? It’s a difficult choice to determine what we need. There are options out there – but we need a trucking accounting software to manage our trucking business. How Does Trucking Accounting Software...
DOT Compliance: Brake Maintenance
It’s CVSA Brake Safety Week. Starting on September 15 through Sept 21, inspectors will be looking at truck brakes as part of the ongoing attempt to get unsafe trucks off the road. DOT compliance – isn’t that just another way to say “we’re...
Dispatch and Load Status: TruckingOffice Pro
The reason that many people say they don’t want to use a trucking management software system is the fear of how long it’s going to take to learn how to use it. Dispatch and Load Status with TruckingOffice Pro is very simple to learn. In fact, it’s so...
From Delivery Driver to Owner-Operator
If you’ve been driving a delivery truck for a company, maybe you’re starting to think bigger about your career. Is hauling soda or beer around the county going to give you the lifestyle you want? Maybe you’re thinking about long-distance trucking and...
Trucking Business Management Crisis Solution
Do you like figuring out a Sudoku puzzle? Sometimes when numbers not in the right place – you have to go to the solution to figure out what went wrong. It can be the same for a trucking business. The wrong name or the wrong number and suddenly, the invoicing is...
Trucker Apps to Steer Your Trucking Company
When we talk about trucking in the 21st century, we naturally think about trucker apps. What’s more modern than the small box with all the answers in our hands? Or maybe on our dashboards, since our hands are supposed to be on the steering wheel… Trucking...
Trucking Business Management
Seen on I-77 just south of Akron last week: a repair truck. A semi. A little car with a road gator peeking out beneath it – with a muffler in it. A cop. It tells the whole story right there, doesn’t it? A trucker lost a tire and it did some major damage to...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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