by TruckingOffice | Oct 14, 2024 | Trucking Software
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...
by TruckingOffice | Oct 7, 2024 | Trucking Software
The envelope looks normal, but the letter inside freezes your insides. It’s not good news. Hands trembling, the news can’t possibly be worse. Bring the records to prove miles per state and fuel purchases for two years ago. Fines and penalties will apply....
by TruckingOffice | Sep 30, 2024 | Trucking Software
It’s that time of year again. Either your trucking business is picking up a lot more freight – or loads are disappearing. It just depends on what you’re hauling. Not only that, the contracts for your ELD may be expiring soon, so you’re faced...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 23, 2024 | Trucking Software
The first day of fall was last week. Not that you could tell here in northeastern Ohio. We’re having a late summer – just the time to get ready for the weather that’s to come. When is it better to get your truck ready for fall? Do it while the sun is...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 16, 2024 | Trucking Software
Whether your trucking business has 1 truck or 10, you know you need a reliable trucking management software (TMS trucking software) for your company to manage. Systems to manage a trucking business can be computerized to be most efficient and effective for a trucking...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 9, 2024 | Trucking Software
We got some reports recently that confirmed what we thought: Truckers and trucking are in trouble. Average costs for a trucking company and the average spot rates aren’t at the same place at all. So what do truckers need to do to make money in trucking? We have...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 2, 2024 | ELD, Electronic Logging Device
If you’re new to trucking, you’re learning a lot of the shorthand terms we use for equipment and taxes we have to pay. IFTA is the International Fuel Tax. HVUT is the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax. ELD is the Electronic Logging Device. HOS is Hours of Service. SOL...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 26, 2024 | Brokerage, Organization
Have you ever watched a video where an athlete goes to a gym and pretends to be a newbie? Then the athlete shows up all the people around by showing off superior skills? Not that we’re comparing trucking brokerage to althetics. We’re just saying that...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 19, 2024 | CVSA, Trucking Software
We know there are drivers who conveniently take their summer vacation whenever the CVSA Safety Check is scheduled. This month, we have the CVSA Brake Safety Week inspections scheduled for August 25-31. Brake Safety is Highway Safety TruckingOffice trucking management...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 12, 2024 | CVSA, DOT Rules and Regulations, Trucking Authority, Trucking Management
Getting your own trucking authority gives you the opportunity to schedule your own loads and to negotiate your own rates. As an owner-operator trucker, leasing on to a large carrier company has benefits, but holding your own authority will provide you with...
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