Is this your IFTA Filing?
October 1 8:00 a.m. Swear that this quarter, the IFTA filing is going to be better.
8:20 a.m. Look for all of the log books and fuel receipts for the 3rd quarter.
8:39 a.m. Find a stack of log books, an opened purple envelope with a Spanish birthday card for your driver Enrique, and all of the fuel credit charge records in a box under the copier.
9:03 a.m. Janet calls from the shipper’s dock – the paperwork is wrong.
9:04 a.m. – 11:41 a.m. Sort out paperwork problem.
11:45-12:02 – Lunch
12:03-3:00 p.m. Customer development calls – get one new lane to Denver.
3:10-5:50 Set up next week’s shipping orders.
October 2 8:00 a.m. Swear that this quarter, the IFTA filing is going to be better.
9:00 a.m. Review last month’s payroll report from the bank, see three mistakes. Call the bookkeeper to make changes before the checks are printed.
10:58 a.m. Get call from Enrique about taking an extra large load to Cleveland.
11:43 a.m. Order lunch from pizza place across the parking lot and take an antacid before it arrives.
3:32 p.m. Find the box of logbooks and fuel receipts, look for manila folders to put everything in.
3:45 p.m. Discover the restroom sink is leaking.
4:07 p.m. Trying to find a plumber via Angie’s List who will come first thing in the morning.
8:08 p.m. Realize you forgot the box and the manila folders at work. Decide to enjoy tonight’s football game and do the IFTA work early tomorrow.
October 3 6:31 a.m. Swear that this quarter, the IFTA filing is going to be better.
7:10 a.m. Your daughter misses her bus and wants to drive your car to school.
7:15 a.m. Drive your daughter to school, but pick up donuts as a consolation.
8:00 a.m. Get four calls from shippers looking for trucks for next week.
9:12 a.m. Get all the routes set up, assign drivers, put assignment cards on the bulletin board.
9:29 a.m. Realize you’ve scheduled Henry for two lanes on opposite sides of the state on the same day.
9:33 a.m. Call Janet and see if she’ll be back from Idaho before Friday. Rearrange the schedule.
10:49 a.m. Sort out the logbooks by date.
11:10 a.m. Realize you’re missing two log books.
12:00 p.m. Shove all the logbooks (in order, with a sticky note where the missing books should go) back into the box.
October 15 4:45 p.m. Remember that the IFTA is due in 16 days.
October 16 7:48 a.m. Swear at the IFTA filing, which is not going better.
9:06 a.m. Henry and Joe report a broken fuel pump in Missouri. Try to remember why they’re in Missouri when they’re supposed to be in Iowa.
10:43 a.m. Find one of the missing logbooks under the copier.
11:56 a.m. Text all the drivers to ask if they know where the logbook might be.
11: 59 a.m. Go to the drug store and buy a fresh bottle of aspirin and a six pack of Red Bull.
6:50 p.m. Your wife and kids come with a pizza to the office to have dinner with you. Your son chugs a Red Bull and your wife leaves him at the office until he calms down. Consider giving your son the fuel receipts to sort.
7:21 p.m. Recognize this was not a good plan.
11:00 p.m. Go home with crazed son and stack of index cards with states on them.
October 18 9:30 p.m. Doze off with laptop on the recliner for “just 10 minutes.”
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October 19 7:10 a.m. Your daughter missed the bus and wants to drive your car to school.
7:45 a.m. Take the first of your aspirins with your coffee and donuts.
7:55 a.m. Swear at the IFTA filing, which is not going better.
7:56 a.m. Consider taking a job as a fireman because it’s lower stress.
8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Bill last month’s lanes. Prepare report for paychecks.
5:55 p.m. Try to decide if hiring an accountant will solve your IFTA filing problems.
October 23 7:15 p.m. Find the missing logbook under your recliner with the notebook you bought to start tracking the IFTA data two months ago.
8:45 p.m. Text Enrique if he’s still got his cash fuel receipts from August.
9:12 p.m. Enrique says the receipts are in a purple envelope with a birthday card from his grandmother. And if he left the $3.00 in the card, he wants it back.
9:15 p.m. Check the paper recycling box your kids put in the garage to get the purple envelope. Stick the $3.00 in your pocket to give to Enrique.
11:59 p.m. Stare at the ceiling and think there’s got to be a better way to do the IFTA.
October 30 3:09 p.m. Finish the IFTA computations. Try to find the IFTA forms from the state in the stack of mail on top of the copier.
4:00 p.m. Appointment at the IRS offices to be sure you’ve computed the IFTA numbers correctly.
October 31: 10:39 p.m. Write the IFTA check and hope it’s right. Stop off at the Post Office and drop the IFTA forms into the mail.
11:15 p.m. Swear that next quarter, the IFTA filing is going to be better.
November 3 9:00 a.m. Sign up for TruckingOffice free month trial.
January 30 9:38 a.m. Print out TruckingOffice IFTA report.
9:39 a.m. Start to fill out the state IFTA form. Write the IFTA check with confidence that you haven’t overpaid this quarter.
10:05 a.m. Put IFTA form into envelope and put it in your pocket to mail on the way home.
11:00 a.m. Call your wife and ask her out on a date.
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