There’s No Such Thing as GPS Miles

There’s No Such Thing as GPS Miles

Mileage matters more to truckers than probably to anyone else. We get paid per mile. We get taxed per mile. Even when we’re on vacation, we track miles per state. So what are we talking about when we say that there’s no such thing as GPS miles?! GPS Miles?...
Fuel Surcharges in Long Term Contracts

Fuel Surcharges in Long Term Contracts

When a contract for a dedicated route (or lane) is made, both the shipper and the trucker get a good deal. Some shippers do not want to depend on load boards because they want to know the trucker who is hauling the freight. The trucker has to appreciate a regular load...
Trucker Stats: Revenue Per Week

Trucker Stats: Revenue Per Week

How much money do you need to stay in business every week? The best way to know is to know your Trucker Stats with TruckingOffice PRO. Your trucking business success depends on knowing the numbers that show what you need. Trucker Stats Revenue – What Do You Make...
What is LTL freight?

What is LTL freight?

LTL shipping, or less-than-truckload shipping, is in high demand in the trucking industry. When companies need to ship product but it’s not a full load, the LTL trucker comes to the rescue. While this is a way for a trucker to take multiple loads at one time to...
What are Trucker Stats?

What are Trucker Stats?

What are trucker stats?  If you google the term, you get transportation industry statistics.  Those can be interesting, but if you want to know how you’re doing in your trucking business, they’re no help.  TruckingOffice PRO trucking software has...
Steps to Simplified Trucking Taxes

Steps to Simplified Trucking Taxes

As a trucker, you know that you pay a lot of taxes. The Government demands its due and expects us to pay on time. Failure to do so has penalties and fines that are supposed to motivate us to pay. (That doesn’t make it any better, does it?) So how do...
Spring Cleaning Your Truck

Spring Cleaning Your Truck

Oh, is it spring yet? Melting snow and increasing temps may lead owner-operators to think about what the springtime has in store. Who doesn’t want to see the end of this winter? As much as we take time to clean our rigs during the winter just to get the salt and...
IFTA and Income Taxes Double Whammy

IFTA and Income Taxes Double Whammy

IFTA and Income Taxes in April Are there any two worse months than January and April for truckers? IFTA and quarterly taxes fall together all the time, but in April, we get the personal income tax too. Quarterly business taxes AND IFTA AND income taxes make these...
ELD for Private Fleets

ELD for Private Fleets

Not all truckers work off a load board. For example, private fleets of trucks. These fleets aren’t for hire. They exist strictly for their companies. They haul for a business, like WalMart or Pepsi. Those fleets are huge! And those truckers need an ELD system...
Work Truck Week

Work Truck Week

Generally, TruckingOffice focuses on long-distance truckers and owner-operators who have their own trucking authority and small businesses. Small fleet managers and fleet builders use TruckingOffice for trucking software and ELD. So Work Trucks might not look like...
The Secret to Surviving an IFTA Audit

The Secret to Surviving an IFTA Audit

It’s time to do IFTA. Again. TruckingOffice PRO makes it easy. An IFTA report from TruckingOffice PRO can be run in a matter of seconds. But an IFTA audit is likely to take a lot more than a few seconds of your life. IFTA Audit Prep? IFTA audits can be random....
Florida Trucking Show

Florida Trucking Show

There’s nothing like spending time with the people in your industry. That’s why we want to go to the Florida Trucking Show this year. It doesn’t hurt that it’s in February in Florida. Potential Truckers Can Learn about Trucking If you’re...
Cyber Monday Special Offers

Cyber Monday Special Offers

Cyber Monday Special Offer 1 TruckingOffice ELD Free Truck Data Tracker with Annual Purchase When you need an electronic logging device (ELD) for your truck, there are plenty of expensive options out there. Lots of bells and whistles that they want you to pay for that...
Who Knows Your IFTA Data?

Who Knows Your IFTA Data?

If you’re a long distance trucker, an owner-operator, or a small fleet builder, here’s a question you have to have the answer to. (We hope the answer is TruckingOffice.) Who has your IFTA data? Why do we ask who has your IFTA data? Because many times, the...
Don’t Not File IFTA

Don’t Not File IFTA

Plenty of drivers have stopped driving in the last quarter. Whether it’s bad rates, unreasonable shippers, or just plain burnout, truckers are parking right now. Maybe they’ve only taken loads in state. Maybe they’ve only driven 10 loads in the last...
Why File IFTA Now?

Why File IFTA Now?

It’s the beginning of the month. Why should anyone file IFTA now? After all, it’s not due for weeks. And for those of us who hate to prepay any taxes, why would we file early? With TruckingOffice PRO, an IFTA report takes seconds to produce. Why rush?...
Quarterly Taxes

Quarterly Taxes

We are not here to give you legal advice about your taxes. That’s for lawyers and accountants, not TruckingOffice. Our perspective is about taxes and truckers. Quarterly taxes are a fact of life for independent truckers. For those coming into the trucking...
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