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...
Building Your Trucking Business Goals
Six months ago, we posted a series of blog posts about your trucking business – in particular, writing a business plan for your owner-operator trucking company. Did you do it? Setting Trucking Business Goals Are you seeing your company moving toward your...
IFTA and TMS Together
Some things just go together. Like peanut butter and jelly. Or, peanut butter and chocolate. And, peanut butter and bananas… I’m sensing a trend here. You know what else goes together? IFTA and TMS. What is IFTA? Who Needs to File IFTA Reports? How Do...
How Does the IFTA Fuel Tax Work?
The IFTA stands for the International Fuel Tax Agreement. It is an agreement between the lower 48 states in the U.S. and 10 provinces in Canada which simplifies fuel tax reporting. Trucking companies travel between jurisdictions on a daily basis. Without this...
Simple IFTA Fuel Tax Filing
Some truckers like to get their hands into their engines and handle much of their own maintenance. Other truckers spend a lot of time trying to find the ideal routes and the best loads. But nobody wants to manage IFTA. If only there were a simple IFTA fuel...
IFTA ELD and TMS: What They Mean
How many random letters can you throw into a trucking discussion? IFTA ELD TMS IRP If you’re already crying uncle, imagine being a new trucker and trying to understand our lingo. IFTA ELD IFTA is the International Fuel Tax Agreement. 57 different jurisdictions...
How to Apply for Your IRP Plates
Those of us who are old enough remember the back of trucks being a wall of license plates. A trucker had to purchase plates for every state. That was back when truckers had to manage their trucking businesses with ledger books! In the 21st century, we have computer...
IFTA Shortcuts
Do you know any good IFTA shortcuts? GPS doesn’t always know best. LIke my drive home – the GPS always tells me to turn onto one street that’s right beside two schools. Turning left there can take 10 minutes if you’re there right after school lets out....
The Best ELD Devices on the Market Right Now
Background According to the Federal Highway Administration, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act — also known as MAP-21 — was signed on July 6th, 2012. This mandated that ELDs must be in all commercial motor vehicles involved with...
IFTA Calculator Blues
It’s the first of July. Do you have IFTA Calculator blues? IFTA and Maintenance There’s a school of thought that says you don’t replace a part until one minute before it breaks. Only problem with that mindset is… you have to know when that minute is and...
Trucking Management Software: Free vs. Paid
Aah, so you have decided to start a trucking company! Great idea! Whether you own one truck or a large fleet, there’s a good chance that you have considered getting a trucking management software (TMS) to optimize operations. The reason why you need one is apparent;...
5 Tips on Avoiding ELD Errors
There’s no denying that having an ELD solution in place can help you reach high levels of safety, savings, and efficiency in your trucking business. Unfortunately, the implementation and adoption of ELD devices can be a challenge. Even if everything is rolled out...
IRP Renewal: Who, What, When, Where & Why
Every year, thousands of truck drivers flock IRP offices and stand in lines for hours waiting to renew their credentials. In many cases, what follows this are inaccurate charges, penalties, and processing delays, which sometimes end up putting truckers off the road....
ELD Mandate: What is It?
You’ve probably heard about the ELD mandate by now. It has been shaking up the freight industry for a while, and you’re wondering whether this is just a buzzed-about word, or it’s actually here to stay. If that’s you, this article takes you through everything you need...
ELD and Trucking Management Systems
For small owner-operator trucking businesses, ELD hasn’t been a welcome change. It’s seen as invasive. People worry about the government spying on them. There hasn’t been a single benefit to truckers. TruckingOffice wants to change that. We see the...
Load Tracking for Beginners
Ever order anything from Amazon? Even they offer load tracking – just click on your order and you’ll see the last time it was checked in on their system. Load tracking is here and we truckers need to figure out how it’s going to impact us. With ELDs...
IRP Resource Center Now Open
Do you have questions about the International Registration Plan (IRP)? TruckingOfffice now has answers on the TruckingOffice IRP Resource Center. Like the TruckingOffice IFTA Resource Center, this website will give you many of the answers to the questions you have...
Truck Maintenance
On Friday morning while driving from Canton to Akron on I-77, I counted 10 empty flatbed trucks, 5 bob-tail cabs, and 3 speed-traps. It must be Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome to Summer – and the first long weekend we have at home. What are you going to do with...
Maintenance Tracking with TMS
If you’re going to use trucking software to track your truck maintenance, you might as well get the full picture of what’s going on in your trucking business. What is TMS? TMS means trucking management software. The programs use technology to help...
Truck Maintenance SWOT
When trying to maintain your truck, it’s important to prioritize your truck maintenance tasks. What’s the most important? What can wait? To make these decisions, a SWOT analysis can help. SWOT Analysis You may have heard of SWOT analysis for businesses....
Maintenance Management for Owner Operators
CVSA Inspections will focus on steering and suspension this year – only a month from now on June 4-6. We think that probably puts maintenance management high on your priority list in the next 4 weeks. Maintenance Management Are you taking the week of the CVSA...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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