CVSA RoadCheck Blitz Scheduled for June 5-7

CVSA RoadCheck Blitz Scheduled for June 5-7

Just a few weeks away and the CVSA Roadcheck Blitz will be interrupting your time on the road.  Nobody’s very excited about that. What’s this year’s focus?  Hours of service regulations. That means your ELD had better be working perfectly and your...
Truck Maintenance for the Winter

Truck Maintenance for the Winter

An ounce of prevention is worth far more than a pound of cure.  Especially in the winter when we’re talking truck maintenance. Those emergencies on the road can destroy any profit from a load.  We can’t predict when a part is going to fail.  Debris on the...
Election Day:  Did you vote?

Election Day: Did you vote?

We’re not going to endorse any candidate or policy.  That’s up to you.  But since politicians were the ones who put the ELD mandate out there, voting is clearly important.  Did you vote yet? Life on the road means you see a lot of this country. ...
ELD Truck Log App:  What Do You Need?

ELD Truck Log App: What Do You Need?

We all know that the ELD mandate has created a bit of turmoil within the trucking industry. Truckers aren’t happy with the new ELD standards because they think it’s going to limit their hours, restrict their independence and make it impossible for them to make as much...
ELD Made Simple

ELD Made Simple

When we were designing the ELD system from TruckingOffice, I spent some time with our electronic log device development team this week.  “Keep it simple,” we say.  You want the ELD made simple – so do we. TruckingOffice’s ELD system was built...
The Eclipse and Truckers

The Eclipse and Truckers

Apparently, someone is worried about us truckers.  I saw this about the eclipse on the Overdrive website: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado are placing restrictions on oversize/overweight loads in the days around the eclipse. The Oregon Department of...
ELD Mandate: Truth and Myths

ELD Mandate: Truth and Myths

The deadline for complying with the ELD mandate is December 17, 2017, according to the FMCSA website. You’ll need to have your vehicles compliant by that date. Unfortunately, there’s a ton of misinformation floating around about the ELD mandate, both on...
Fuel Taxes Gone Up This Year

Fuel Taxes Gone Up This Year

Updating the IFTA Fuel Taxes Tables (So You Don’t Have To) With IFTA coming due in a just a few weeks, TruckingOffice has updated the fuel tax tables in preparation for the quarterly filing. To say we were surprised at what New Jersey just did isn’t a lie....
TruckingOffice On the Road to MATS

TruckingOffice On the Road to MATS

TruckingOffice – Mid America Trucking Show – MATS Last year, I took my kids to the Mid-America Trucking Show.  This year,  Dad and I are going to MATS and we are looking forward to some networking and new technology review.  There will be some exciting new...
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