by TruckingOffice | Jul 4, 2022 | Fleet Management, Invoice, Organization, Owner Operator, Trucking Management, Trucking Software
Is there any other business like trucking? Last year, we were seeing record prices per mile. This year, they’re talking recession and rates are divebombing our trucking businesses. If you’re getting started with a trucking business, you may need to know...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 30, 2020 | Trucking Management
Nothing can cripple a small trucking business faster than unpaid client invoices. In fact, a 2019 report put the total amount owed in unpaid invoices across all small businesses in the United States at about $825 billion. Needless to say, accounts receivable is the...
by Allen Campbell | Jan 16, 2017 | Invoice, Maintenance, Taxes, Trucking Management, Trucking Management Software
Can Transportation Management Software increase your profits? It had better. Otherwise, what are you doing with it? In this economy, truckers feel like they’re being asked to haul loads practically for free. Or worse, the pay per mile is less than it would...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 22, 2016 | ELD, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Software
Looking at owner operator trucking software? As an owner operator, you need just a few things to get started as a trucker. You need: a cab a trailer a load a way to manage all the paperwork including dispatches, routing, invoices, late payments, factoring, IFTA,...
by TruckingOffice | Jul 11, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, Taxes
If you’re a company driver thinking of going out on your own, then there is one aspect of the business you can’t afford to overlook—IFTA fuel taxes. That’s because US states and Canadian provinces depend on IFTA revenue to maintain their highway systems. For this...
by Allen Campbell | Jun 30, 2016 | Invoice, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Trucking Management
Forget Your Goals? Or Get Derailed By an Emergency? Keeping your focus on your goals with reminders or frequent review of your business helps move you forward, but there are days when the road to success has some expensive tolls. Emergencies crop up and we have to...
by TruckingOffice | Jun 13, 2016 | CVSA, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Reports, Trucking Management, Trucking Software Training
How do you determine which freight management software is the best for you? It’s not a choice you want to make without due consideration. Who wants to buy multiple software packages? Who’s got the money or the time to learn different programs?...
by Allen Campbell | Dec 3, 2015 | IFTA, Invoice, LTL, Maintenance, Reports, Trucking Management
There are lot of reasons to use a factoring service. Suppose I haul a load for the local steel company, but I have to pay the fuel and the other expenses before I get the payment. I might use a factoring service – a company that will give me the...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 20, 2015 | Invoice
I have a friend who is constantly running low on money. Abby has regular lanes and is a good driver. She loves being on the road with her dog and sometimes her husband Nick. But the money end of the business? Always a problem for her. She’ll go without her own dinner...
by Allen Campbell | Mar 18, 2013 | GATS, Taxes
Think – Who did your income taxes last year? Did they give you good service? Were you happy with the result? Did they even KNOW trucker taxes? Over a year ago, the TruckingOffice team made a commitment to go beyond simply providing the very best bookkeeping and record...
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