by TruckingOffice | Dec 28, 2017 | IFTA, Maintenance, Organization, Safety, Taxes, Trucking Management
After days on the road, coming home might mean there’s a list waiting: the Honey-Do list. It’s not that those people at home can’t do those tasks themselves. Maybe they want to enjoy watching you do them. Maybe it’s a team effort. But home...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 24, 2017 | LTL
Intro (Trucking Delivery Statistics) America’s highways are busy 24/7 with people going to work, traveling, shopping, seeking entertainment, and more. In the midst of all this traffic are thousands of LTL and FTL trucks delivering the products that keep our...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 21, 2017 | ELD, Invoice, Maintenance, Trucking Management
The Trucker Who Has Everything When you’re gift shopping for a trucker who’s been on the road for a while – they probably already have everything that they need. Or at least, everything that they think they need. Trucking in the future is not going...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 18, 2017 | Trucking Management
It’s the last week of the busiest shipping season and you’ve probably moved more freight in the past two months than the first six months of the year. As an owner-operator, that’s a tough way to run a business. We can’t deny that...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 14, 2017 | ELD, IFTA, Invoice, Maintenance, Reports, Trucking Management
I listened to a trucker podcaster recently. He talked about a rough survey he took at a truck stop one day this year. Less than half of truckers use smartphones. That surprised us. Smartphones go with trucking like french fries and ketchup. Why aren’t...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 11, 2017 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management
I’ll bet you’re not even thinking about your IFTA right now. Most truckers can barely keep up with the loads they’ve got to haul before the holidays – they’re not thinking about anything else right now. So why are we even talking about...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 7, 2017 | ELD, IFTA, Maintenance, Trucking Management, Trucking Software Training
Looking for any truck driver log app isn’t any easier now than it was 5 years ago when the ELD mandate was put in place. There are still too many bad apps written without the trucker in mind. That’s why we at TruckingOffice decided that keeping the rules...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 4, 2017 | Freight Sales, LTL, Organization, Trucking Management
Black Friday and Cyber Monday can’t happen without truckers. Black Friday got its name from the custom of retailers to write their losses in red in and their profits in black. Black Friday is the day that most retailers put the red ink away for the year. Cyber...
by TruckingOffice | Dec 2, 2017 | ELD, Electronic Logging Device, IFTA, Reports, Trucking Management, Trucking Software
We saw this article about the ELD delay request from Indiana. It seems that the attorney general is questioning the validity of self-certification of the ELD equipment currently on the market. We know that older electronic logging devices don’t comply with the...
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